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The need to know

EFT

China retaliates against EU ban with import restrictions on medical devices China's finance ministry said on Sunday it was restricting government purchases of medical devices from the European Union that exceed 45 million yuan ($6.3 Trump says alignment with BRICS' 'anti-American policies' to invite additional 10% tariffs U.S.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Supply Chain Market Report – August 2022

Elementum

Welcome to Elementum’s Supply Chain Market Report. The direct impact of this phenomenon is weakened purchasing power of other currencies relative to the Dollar. BRICS is an alliance between several countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to do just that. For further reading, check out their full report. .

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Jason Schenker’s Views on 2014 Economic Events

Supply Chain View from the Field

The purchasing manager indices clearly show that last year we had a bottoming out, and we are now breaking through 50, which shows growth moving in the right direction. If interest rates go up as the Fed slows Treasury purchases, this is bad news for municipal bonds. growth next year. China is at about 7.7 to 2% consistently.

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What’s New in 2015 for the supply chain world? See 2014?s predictions.

Supply Chain View from the Field

While it seemed like many companies would be moving more towards the BRIC countries, global events have proven this uptake to be relatively slow. Without accurate and timely data that is properly coded and classified, whatever fancy “big data” analytics are produced will be utterly meaningless.

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6 Supply Chain Trends That Could Truly Shake You Up (2018 Update)

Logistics Bureau

As it is, even Amazon’s full potential is stifled by the existence of silos, as revealed in a Wall Street Journal report in 2017. BRICs Are Moving to Buying, Not Just Making. How long will offshoring last? Near shoring is an alternative, but not for everyone. Shock possibility: Your suppliers will be your customers.

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5 OTR Trends – 2013

The Logistics of Logistics

“Smaller players in the brokerage space will begin to get squeezed out by strict regulations and competitors” My smart, good looking friends at Carrier Direct are at it again with a great report on OTR trends. The report chronicles a number of OTR trends (over the road trends) and the top 5 are summarized below.