Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 25, 2024

The service commenced operations January 21 from Cai Mep, Vietnam with a rotation that goes to Yantian, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai, Vancouver, Pusan and then back to Cai Mep.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, the effectiveness of FTZs just got a lot clearer as the US released a five-year study on the operations and impact of the US FTZ program and similar FTZ-type programs in Canada and Mexico. Importing a vacuum motor from Vietnam would incur a 5.3% Key Findings From the US FTZ Program Study 1. Take vacuums, for instance.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the supply chain and logistics realm, with lots of news related to global trade and technology. Canada, and Mexico. Mexico and Canada Sign Pact to Replace Nafta (WSJ – sub. Mexico and Canada Sign Pact to Replace Nafta (WSJ – sub. and Canada.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Supply chain stresses seem to have faded somewhat, at least on aggregate.” New export orders were noted as rising at the fastest rate in nearly two years. in January, and 49.7

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Elementum

APRIL 4, 2018

We’re taking a look at what the new tariffs mean for supply chain, and how businesses can protect their interests. How will supply chains be impacted? This might depend on how well businesses can pivot their supply chains to find alternatives as their familiar raw materials and components suppliers become more expensive.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 27, 2022

The new UPS fees replace peak and demand surcharges on shipments from the APAC region to Canada and the U.S. Still, shippers that do not gain supply chain insight and understanding into their new costs will face even more uncertainty. Canada Domestic UPS Standard®, UPS Standard to the U.S., Shipments From India to Canada.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 27, 2022

The new UPS fees replace peak and demand surcharges on shipments from the APAC region to Canada and the U.S. Still, shippers that do not gain supply chain insight and understanding into their new costs will face even more uncertainty. Canada Domestic UPS Standard®, UPS Standard to the U.S., Shipments From India to Canada.

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Elementum

APRIL 4, 2018

We’re taking a look at what the new tariffs mean for supply chain, and how businesses can protect their interests. How will supply chains be impacted? This might depend on how well businesses can pivot their supply chains to find alternatives as their familiar raw materials and components suppliers become more expensive.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

TPP is a unprecedented trade deal in history because it involves 12 countries (United States, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam), which accounts for 40% of global trade. (The trillion and US was second with US$ 3.9 trillion.) .

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 7, 2015

How Asia challenges beverage supply chains. If you aren’t familiar with Asia, the unique complexities it piles onto your beverage supply chain are hard to see. In Asia, rules of the beverage supply chain have to be rewritten. Its identically tasting twin is brewed and shipped all over Canada.

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Taulia

JUNE 11, 2018

has recently announced that Europe, Canada and Mexico will also be subject to hefty steel and aluminum tariffs. With Mexico and Canada also likely to retaliate, how concerned should you be about the prospect of the US-China trade war continuing or a larger global trade war and the possible impact to your supply chain?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional. Gupta, Ph.D.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 12, 2022

Google’s global research on countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States revealed that 46% of shoppers confirm inventory availability online before going to stores. Supply Chain Collaboration. Need a more collaborative approach to your assortment planning?

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. Now, Linton believes those supply chains must change. manufacturing supply chain there.”.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The result of a standoff, Paulson warned in a speech last week at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, was a "moment of change in the global economy" and "unprecedented political pressure on cross-national supply chains.". "I Those batteries, in turn, are a good example of how hard shifting supply chains will be.

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Bristlecone

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In January, Bristlecone kicked off an end-to-end supply chain assessment and diagnostic project for a provider of corporate apparel and business services. This is the first in a multi-phase SAP project aimed at transforming the client’s supply chain environment to increase order fill rates and reduce lost revenue.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 2, 2019

This does not include the 250 Billion Dollars already Tariffed at 25%… The move breaks a truce in the long-running trade war between Washington and Beijing, with investors fearful it could further disrupt global supply chains. There is nothing about the current environment that lends any degree of predictability to the scenario.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Robinson, adding to CH Robinson’s global supply chain services. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on supply chain management and logistics, including order management, delivery, trade financing, insurance, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage.” In 2015, Freightquote was acquired by C.H.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Robinson, adding to CH Robinson’s global supply chain services. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on supply chain management and logistics, including order management, delivery, trade financing, insurance, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage.” In 2015, Freightquote was acquired by C.H.

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Elementum

JUNE 6, 2016

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, Mexico ranks number eight out of 40 countries including Canada, Sweden, and Vietnam. Mexico may become the global manufacturing nerve center if the country plays its cards right. Lower costs and proximity to the U.S. Branching Out.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I’m guessing, however, that many supply chain and logistics software vendors (and probably many 3PLs too) rushed to their phones yesterday to call Home Depot’s SVP of Supply Chain Management in hopes of getting a piece of that $300 million pie. German shipping banks face $22 billion in losses: Moody’s ( Reuters ).

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 23, 2018

Supply chain industry executives are split sharply about how Mexico will fare if it is able to agree with the United States and Canada on terms to update the North American Free Trade Agreement. . GDP growth. Twenty-six percent said large companies would be the biggest beneficiaries.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 6, 2018

But if it does, the small publicly traded company would go down the same path that thousands of others have since Trump began enacting tariffs on other countries like Mexico and Canada in a push to reduce America’s trade deficit. a supply chain management company. By Matt Townsend and Hema Parmar. Printer-friendly version.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Vietnam is a popular choice, reports are surfacing that the country’s limited manufacturing capacity is already heavily booked and their ports and other infrastructure are maxed out. While near-shoring to Mexico, Canada or the U.S. Other Asian sources have similar uncertainties to navigate.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

My son Bretton was a AAA hockey player in Canada until 2016 when he battled cancer at the age of 16. Having served myself, I know now the sacrifices my father made during Vietnam and my grandfather’s made during WWII. The post A Day to Honor Our Veterans appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Vietnam is a popular choice, reports are surfacing that the country’s limited manufacturing capacity is already heavily booked and their ports and other infrastructure are maxed out. While near-shoring to Mexico, Canada or the U.S. Other Asian sources have similar uncertainties to navigate.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2017

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative held its bi-annual Industry Partner Meeting in the Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University this past week. Participants also attended the Innovation Showcase in Nelson Hall,, featuring two winning supply chain teams in the undergraduate and graduate divisions!

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 11, 2023

He said his favorite moment in the event was at the opening session, where participants said hello, revealing that educators and students had shown up from many countries, including Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Vietnam and many more.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Essentially it is a proposed trade agreement between 12 countries—the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Do I need to change my global supply chain because of the agreement? What is the TPP agreement? Right now the answer is not quite yet.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

In fact, China’s wages have been on the rise and fast-growing countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh are developing niches in footwear and clothing manufacturing as well. It offers a finely tuned supply chain, with experienced suppliers, that will design, prototype, build and ship products at a fraction of the time it takes elsewhere.

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