Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s good to see these companies recognizing the impact of climate change, and changing their policies, sourcing, and manufacturing practices to reduce emissions. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption. Business media has further reinforced that at same time, the Panama Canal , which is the globe’s other key transit route. East Coast.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 19, 2022

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Background. and Chinese based high tech electronics providers.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This means we help the team answer questions about global production footprint design, such as “where should we build our breweries,” “where should we invest in capacity,” “how much capacity should we build on which location,” “what kind of equipment should we invest in” and “when should we invest.”. a non-alcoholic beer).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve only just entered the second half of the year and people haven’t even taken their summer vacations yet, so why are we talking about holiday supply chains now? Longer lead times make fashion items not so fashionable. Last year, retailers started encouraging holiday shoppers to shop early. I am only saying this in half jest.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Survey results showed, “53% of large companies (250+ employees) said they have been forced to respond to these pressures compared to just 31% of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).” ” Resiliency and Geopolitical Risk What constitutes a geopolitical risk? The risks run the gamut from trade wars to actual wars.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Just-in-time delivery of finished goods and components has been put under tremendous strain. Harvest time is approaching fast in many countries in the northern hemisphere. And of course, the problem is acute right across Europe. This in turn could put logistics under pressure at companies like Amazon.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Associated Press reports, “Canal authorities attributed the drought to the El Niño weather phenomenon and climate change, and warned it was urgent for Panama to seek new water sources for both the canal’s operations and human consumption. As a result, maritime shipping lies at the very heart of the global logistical system.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

And, in recent times, this has made the critical notion of sustainability an equally vast challenge. This initiative is central to enhancing the management and efficiency of its logistics operations throughout Europe. This initiative is central to enhancing the management and efficiency of its logistics operations throughout Europe.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry?

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Resilinc

JANUARY 15, 2024

Containerized rates have quadrupled, and delivery times have increased by two weeks. In the longer term, lead times for imported goods will increase, forcing businesses to adjust their decision-making timeframes to ensure they have adequate stock. On January 11, the U.S. Following the airstrikes, oil prices rose by 4%.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba. And both shifts will have major ramifications on customers – importers, exporters, and online sellers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. There was no air freight possible then into Europe,” added Gerald van den Eijnden. Molex ended up selecting a product from Infor Nexus – GT Nexus at the time. It is part of Koch Industries.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2022

The staff at Logility observes that holiday supply chains are stressed even during the best of times. Journalist Kimberley Laws writes, “With Halloween hiding just around the corner, you may want to grab your treats early. Last year consumers in the United States spent an estimated three billion U.S. ”[6].

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Tariffs placed by US have resulted in changes to the global flow of steel and increased steel imports to Europe are affecting steel companies there. Also, we see a wave of consolidation continue in Europe as companies seek to become more competitive. Henri: Organizations are taking action to become more than just steel producers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” ZF sends the call-off, along with the forecast, not just to their suppliers, but to their carriers and 3PLs. at the ZF Group. How many parts do we need?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Agri-food supply chains under pressure The discipline of agri-food supply chain management aims to bridge the supply and demand gap of agri-food chains to achieve optimal place and time utility. In terms of time, the agriculture sector also needs to deal with seasons, where harvesting goes in cycles.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 31, 2022

Like my toilet paper example, families stockpiled baby formula leading to short term spiked demand, followed by a lack of demand leading to production cuts, followed by a rebound in demand for which production capacity has not been restored. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. There are over 3.5

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

Data also shows that half of US states are experiencing out-of-stock rates between 40% and 50%: Image source: Flipboard. Image source: Sturgis Journal. When it comes to defining “the essentials,” few products are as vital as baby formula. In total, approximately 40% of retailers in the United States are out of stock as of mid-May.

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ivalua

APRIL 12, 2019

A recent Ivalua study with Forester identified capacity being consumed by operational and manual activities as one barrier, along with a lack of contextual access to insights, and poor data quality as other blockers. The afternoon of the first day at the Ivalua Now event in Paris had a strong AI (artificial intelligence) flavour.

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QAD

MARCH 9, 2023

Continual Supply Chain Disruption is Here to Stay Who could have imagined that the level of supply chain disruption experienced during the pandemic was just the beginning? The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in supply chains around the world and the dust has never settled. How Have Global Supply Chains Changed Since the Pandemic?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

2023 Prediction Three: More Direct Control in Strategic or Tactical Multi-tiered Direct Materials Sourcing will Continue to be a Prominent Element of Business Strategy for Chief Supply Chain or Chief Procurement Officer Efforts. . Background. In this Part Two posting, we provide highlights to Prediction Three outlined in our advisory.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

It is a time of uncertainty that has exposed weaknesses in the supply chain that are both difficult to solve and impossible to predict. There were floods in Europe and China, Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast, and California wildfires that all played their part. Shipping costs have skyrocketed. There are labor shortages.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The invention of the ocean container as a means for inter-modal sea and surface transportation movements have orchestrated the march toward lowest cost global based sourcing of components and materials. This BCG advisory further argued that carriers had yet to tap the potential of multi-carrier capacity agreements.

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QAD

AUGUST 30, 2022

Sometimes delivered as a warning and a wakeup call to the traditional OEMs , other times as a demarcation of a new beginning for futurists, policymakers and mobility players. We all know that change in any industry is constant. Some of us may be set up to succeed, while others not so much.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 15, 2022

”[1] He presciently added, “Does it make sense [to ignore the threat of war] at a time when nationalism is clearly and ominously rising everywhere on earth?” Hot risk factors today include data security, logistics disruptions and trade policy uncertainty. Oddly, however, concerns about war remain largely off the radar.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The McKinsey report “How COVID-19 is changing consumer behaviour – now and forever”, bluntly illustrates how this change occurred more quickly and seismically than anyone predicted – so fast that it’s apparent the capacity to adapt had always been there. . So how do these changes bleed into the facets of the supply chain?

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2022

In looking at re/nearshoring trends and sentiments for both the United States and Europe, here’s what we found: Re/nearshoring has been particularly disappointing in Europe. In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY. manufacturing facilities. After declining 12.8% in 2021 and 4.1%

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 62

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And just as petroleum resources shaped the geopolitics of the last 100 years, control of the battery minerals needed to electrify transport and decarbonize energy utilities has become a critical national security issue for the 21st Century. Since declaring in June 2021 that China’s dominance of critical minerals supply chains threatened U.S.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Shortages Material scarcity was an issue long before the COVID-19 pandemic or the conflict in Europe, but the situation has undoubtedly been amplified by these events. With a growing requirement for raw materials and consumer goods, insufficient shipping capacity exacerbated cost increases.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The growing sophistication of vehicles means that, despite recent [semiconductor manufacturing] capacity investments, the imbalance between chip supply and demand will persist—at least for some types of semiconductors—over the next four years,” wrote BCG analysts in October 2022. “The million vehicles, a sales total not seen since 2011.

Automotive 62

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 18, 2020

In recent years , the sector has become highly dependent on deliveries from the Asia Pacific region and in particular China, where capacities in the transport chain between inland plants and the ports collapsed by 70% at one point. Supplier management is, of course, challenging at the best of times, and for a variety of reasons.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

More recently, the war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia have placed limitations on both the overland rail and air freight routes from China to Europe and increased the strain on Northern European ports that were already congested before the war. One of the best ways to achieve this is to build agile supply chains.

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Proxima

JULY 26, 2023

These incidents have shone a light on the fragility of global technology supply chains and, at the same time, further evidenced that some supply chains are viewed by governments as key to national security and future economic growth. Disruption in the early 2020’s bred plenty of dissenting voices. Furthermore, China represents a key market.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 18, 2022

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

Supply Chain Visibility 62

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Resilinc

JANUARY 17, 2022

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

Inventory Reduction 62

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