Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Reports had indicated that that the government of Canada agreed to subsidies of upwards of C$13 billion over a ten year period in order to land this investment. A further consideration was proximity to key raw materials including minerals, lithium, nickel and cobalt which Canada ’s mining sectors can provide.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. Manhattan Transportation Management Enhancements Enable the Acquisition and Supervision of Additional Shipment Capacity. Convey Closes $8.25 Million in Series B Funding. The same is true for supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2023

Background Within our research arm’s January 2023 published advisory, 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains , we included a prediction that manufacturers would seek more direct control and added resiliency of their component or outsourced production supply networks in 2023. and Canada.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 29, 2020

Policy 12 created a white and blacklist of manufacturers and suppliers. and Canada customs best practices. The next key subject to address is importing PPE into the United States and/or Canada. Importing PPE into Canada. Policy 53 increases CIQ inspection on all PPE products, labels, packaging, and documentation.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. Canadian Pacific Railway Work Stoppage Eased.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. The competencies required to bring about this new model can be bigger than redesigning RFPs or the Procurement process.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The decline in container rates will precipitate further declines across other transportation modes and in all geographies. Warehouse and distribution managers and procurement professionals will need to start thinking about managing the customer experience better. Sector profitability is set to hit bottom in second half 2023.”

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With the closing of the third quarter, the numbers once again signal added contraction in global manufacturing output as product demand levels weaken. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. This index has now remained below the 50.0

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Distribution management includes forecasting, transportation, warehousing, and delivery within the larger universe of logistics and supply chain management. The ideal situation for any retailer or manufacturer is to have just enough inventory on hand to sell or to keep production lines running smoothly. What is Distribution Management?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 26, 2022

manufacturing facility somewhere in Oklahoma as well. Many related announced investments point to what shaping-up as concerted strategy for both domestic market and nearshored supply network investments geared to support the region’s EV vehicle market and manufacturing needs for the coming decade.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Kristie Syndikus, VP Procurement at Maple Leaf Foods! Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 27, 2011

“We live and work in every neighbourhood in Canada,” said Tom Schmitt, President and CEO of Purolator. “So We are also proud of our collaborative relationship with Echo Global Logistics and remain committed to finding environmentally sustainable solutions to get shipments across Canada and around the world.”. About Purolator Inc.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

Transportation was redirected to be used in providing first aid, leading to supply chain bottlenecks, shortages and price hikes. Wildfires have been an ongoing affair in British Columbia since June 2021, claiming acres of forest area and severing railroad and highway links to the largest port in Canada. Sustainable warehousing.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights reports of a cyber-attack incident impacting a supplier to Toyota Motor and resulting in a one-day suspension of the automakers manufacturing operations across Japan.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Intelligent procurement technology provider JAGGAER announced the finalization of a partnership with TealBook , a tech provider that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to gather, predict and refine supplier data and to provide companies with additional product sourcing options.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In late spring of 2015, Elemental’s staff boxed up several servers and sent them to Ontario, Canada, for the third-party security company to test, the person says. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.”

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 26, 2015

A new global Manufacturing structure with new operating models has been created. Product Line Managers, Procurement, Product Development) and external suppliers ensuring product availability against agreed business policies and service level agreements (SLA’s). Your role as Global Supply Chain Director. What do we have to offer you?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 9, 2018

AD occurs when a foreign manufacturer sells goods in the U.S. tax breaks to manufacturers that export goods to the U.S.), enabling the manufacturers to sell the goods cheaper than domestic manufacturers. tax breaks to manufacturers that export goods to the U.S.), at less than fair value, causing injury to the U.S.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 1, 2021

To make their supply chains more lean, retailers can explore different supply chain optimization techniques throughout procurement, production, and distribution, or outsource supply chain management to a 3PL. Evaluate your procurement process. First, take a step back and reevaluate your supplier or manufacturer.

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SupplyOn

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Airbus harmonized its global procurement processes with a innovative, highly comprehensive initiative featuring AirSupply, earning a well-deserved nomination for the German Logistics Award The construction of an aircraft is preceded by a highly complex, sophisticated procurement process. Managing this is a challenge in itself.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 8, 2020

We’re a recruitment company deeply specialized in the world of Supply Chain Management – which includes Procurement, Logistics, Distribution, Planning and other functions that involve bringing products from raw materials to market. Howell outlines how consumers, suppliers and manufacturers all have a role to play.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Over the next several years the TBG business grew from 20,000 square feet of facilities in Canada to more than 20 million square feet across North America with annual revenues of over $2 Billion. Over the same time period the use of centralized procurement has also grown dramatically, driven by increasing financial and code of conduct ?controls

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Requis

MARCH 23, 2021

This is how I learned about the concept of “retained carbon”, or embodied carbon, which is essentially the carbon that is used in the extraction and manufacture of materials used in a project. Sustainability should impact procurement choices, such as favoring lower embodied carbon products over higher embodied carbon products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2024

This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse to be visible in the provinces of Canada since February 26, 1979, the first in Mexico since July 11, 1991, and the first in the United States since August 21, 2017. and Canada. It will also be the last total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States until August 23, 2044.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 15, 2013

The Top 10 Transportation Management Systems. Each year as businesses of every size and industry fight to broaden market share the same old questions haunt the boardrooms, “How can we reduce transportation costs? Transportation Management Systems. JDA Transportation Manager. How do we streamline our supply operation?”.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

When you want to drive down your logistics and transportation spend, the very first thing that you need is freight and transportation data. Luckily, this isn’t the case for transportation data. Accurate freight and transportation data is particularly important. Without hard data, you can’t take action.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Slight Rise in Global Wide Production Activity Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with back-to-back expansion levels in February. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI® rose from 56.5 Manufacturing Among the two reported PMI reports relative to U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. Lead times expanded even for domestic manufacturers because they sourced raw materials from overseas. Procurement is critical to being able to stay in stock with the most important products.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. He graduated from the Cambridge Academy of Transport and the Chilean and German Commerce Institute with a degree in maritime transport, respectively.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2015

Within that framework, we provide specialized, transportation and transportation management, crossdocking, packaging design and management, and lean consulting services. All seek to extend their manufacturing line back to their suppliers. Since then, it has grown in both service offerings and geographic presence and reach.

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

Insiders joke (quite fairly, as it turns out) about billion-dollar procurement-management-disposition cycles that are managed in spreadsheets. In the procurement space, what I want to be able to assess is risk management. He and his business partner Dan Dershem have been looking at procurement from several angles.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While supply chains are starting to stabilize, Resilinc hopes the pandemic’s lessons will lead procurement and supply chain managers to shift to more regionalized sourcing models. and global OEMs have optimized and globalized sourcing and procurement to reduce labor and other input costs. Over the past 40 years, U.S.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

This merger will reportedly include lithium mines and deposits located in Australia Canada , and South America and result in the third largest global lithium producer. In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp. to Combine with Allkem Ltd.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Deloitte’s 2019 Global CPO Survey identifies the key challenges that procurement professionals are struggling to tackle. The complex role of the chief procurement officer (CPO) now faces emerging economic and political risks in every direction they turn — and they feel pressured to cut costs along the way,” writes Deloitte.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Companies located predominately in the United States , but including some in Canada and Mexico , reportedly ordered 44,100 robots in 2022, representing an 11 percent year-over-year increase. Most will reportedly be utilized for material handling automation needs inside warehousing and manufacturing facilities.

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