Enterra Insights

JUNE 16, 2021

The review focused on four specific supply chain areas: “semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging; large capacity batteries, like those for electric vehicles; critical minerals and materials; and pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).”[1] ” Large Capacity Batteries.

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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. For related commentary, see Japan and Ecuador Earthquakes: Supply Chain Lessons from Past Disasters ).

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The above seems to imply, from our lens, the movement toward China Plus sourcing activity.

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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. China controls 72% of lithium refining capacity and 71% of cobalt refining, according to WSJ.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. Nippon Express Nippon Express is a Japanese logistics company commonly known in Japan as ‘Nittsu.’ million square feet of warehouse space in Japan and an additional 25.8 Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Essentially, demand for deliveries skyrocketed yet the capacity of delivery firms shrunk. However, even pre-COVID, the APAC region has faced a number of major interruptions to the supply chain, mostly driven by extreme weather events – typhoons in Japan, bushfires in Australia or mass flooding in the Philippines.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Supply chain planners (I’m lumping in all the silos, including demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning) today are dealing with challenges that were unimaginable when Lotus notes were the next big thing. 2011 – Japan earthquake / tsunami and Fukushima disaster. Times have changed. See 2014 side note). 2012 – Hurricane Sandy.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

The war and imposed sanctions will create a knock-on effect across the supply chain , and businesses will be impacted by material shortages, material cost increases, demand volatility, logistics and capacity constraints as well as cybersecurity breaches. Consider holding safety stocks where applicable to prevent breaks in production.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As noted in our prior Supply Chain Matters postings three years ago, a published report had indicated Apple had requested major suppliers and contract manufacturers to evaluate the cost implications for shifting fifteen, to as much as thirty percent of production capacity from China to other Southeast Asia regions.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2022

Yet, this legislation is not unique from a global perspective in that many other countries and regions including China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan the Eurozone , are already spending billions on such incentives. The Micron announcement is a rather significant development since so much of memory chip production is sourced across East Asia.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Those “long-term prospects” are embodied in the growing wave of green energy investment and the electrification of transport, heating, industrial processes, and other energy uses that now rely on fossil fuel combustion. Skidmore notes that “Japan and China have made excellent progress in creating a circular copper supply chain.”.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 6, 2020

trade war and the trade conflict between Japan and Korea, these and other disruptions caused serious challenges to the transportation industry. was a drastic change that will likely continue to affect shipping costs and capacity availability. Carriers controlling capacity. Driver and drayage capacity shortages.

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o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Having instantaneous knowledge that an underperforming product in Malaysia is taking up 30% of manufacturing capacity but the ROI is negative, running a scenario that recommends shifting production to a product that is stocking out in Japan but can improve your margins by 4%. Innovation. He also said “Innovate or die”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 22, 2021

Bastille day in France, July 1st in Canada, Diwali in India, the Sumidagawa festival in Japan, Guy Fawkes night in the U.K., Given that they are largely made manually, the low cost of manufacturing in China, along with their expertise, is the controlling factor in this sourcing situation. The Fireworks Supply Chain. What is going on?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Further indicated were signs of weakness occurring in China , Japan , Malaysia, South Korea , Taiwan and Vietnam. Source: S&P Global and Other Sources. Report authors noted that sector data of new orders indicated that contraction occurred across consumer, intermediate and investment goods industries.

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Elementum

APRIL 15, 2016

Consumer electronics could be facing months of supply chain disruptions after the Kumamoto quakes rattled manufacturers in Southern Japan. tremor struck the industry-heavy region of Kumamoto, in southern Japan, early Saturday morning. What Happened. Just two days earlier, a 6.4-magnitude

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Most analysts believe the future looks bright for renewable energy sources. This means that ever-more of our energy system can become less reliant on traditional sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, thereby reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”[3] ”[4]. ”[4].

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Source: Laurie Cus. Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers as Its Transportation Ambitions Grow (Re/code). October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Hundreds of Cafe Bustelo cans washed ashore in Florida this week. China Approves Merger of Cosco, China Shipping (WSJ- sub. for CMA CGM and 2.7%

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QAD

JULY 18, 2023

You have new players looking to carve out a role in the EV and battery industries and established OEMs shifting gears to find out how and where they fit in the future of road transport. I know many of us will never forget that time in 2011 when a tsunami hit Japan and overnight the global automotive industry was thrown into disarray.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

China says almost all of its major industrial companies have resumed production and that its ports are again running at near-full capacity after a two-month Coronavirus-linked shutdown. When it comes to air freight, global capacity is down 22 percent compared to last year, with further declines expected. Air Freight. Ocean Freight.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The orders-to-inventory ratio fell to another multi-year low last month as excess capacity continued to build at factories. Japan, Taiwan ) the average PMI value for Q3 was 49.0, The ongoing rise in stock-building is a worrying sign that demand is faltering and will weigh on activity deeper into 2H22. up from a value of 53.7

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Higher costs related to energy and transportation reportedly led to Vietnamese manufacturers incurring further increases in selling prices. Upon reviewing a grouping of developed regions, namely the United States, Eurozone, Japan and Taiwan, production and supply chain activity levels declined 2.9 percentage points from Q1 to Q2.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. Potential for closure or interruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The regions reported as having the most declines in production volumes were noted as Brazil, Canada, Japan , and the United Kingdom. Firms reportedly attributed the upturn in production to companies increasing workforce and capacity. Suppliers continue to have capacity. The September value of 49.8

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

There are two things Boeing and Airbus have in common, utilization of lean manufacturing system and strategic sourcing concept. However, the overall implementation of strategic sourcing is a bit different between the two companies. They want to utilize high capacity airplane to help airlines drive the operating cost down.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

But even if containment has the desired effect, what are the wider consequences of shutting down schools, shopping centers, factories, transportation and supply networks? As for Japan, Nissan said in a widely reported statement on February 10 that it will temporarily stop production at its factory in Kyushu. Pharmaceuticals.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. Panasonic to Quadruple Battery Production Capacity. auto makers including Tesla.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2022

ANA is the first 737 MAX customer in Japan and first carrier in Asia to choose the 777-8 Freighter. Boeing and 777 Partners announcing a new order and commitment for up to 66 737 MAX jets, including a firm order for 30 high-capacity Boeing 737-8-200s.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

One is time to recover (TTR), the time it would take for a particular node in the supply chain — a supplier facility, a distribution center, or a transportation hub — to be restored to full functionality after a disruption. Develop alternative sources and diversify value chains. . “Our methodology has two central elements.

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Freightera

JANUARY 10, 2017

Demand for greener freight transport is coming primarily from the largest companies. Once these services are set up, and capacity is established, it will be made available to smaller firms. Lowest cost freight transport will increasingly be lower emission as well.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

MAY 14, 2014

Relatively few managers have done much to protect their supply chains from critical, costly disruptions, even though they know that disasters like the 2011 Japan tsunami and Thailand floods can hit business for months, a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article notes. Supply Chains Can Be Both Resilient and Cost Efficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

Customers in North Asia, including China and Japan, will benefit from increased connection and service dependability as a result of the route. Customers in Singapore will also benefit from increased European inbound capacity. To meet demand, 3PLs increasingly tapped the spot market to source carriers to cover shipments.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Logistics industry was experiencing capacity constraints, driver shortages, sudden upticks in e-commerce demand, new technologies, different fulfillment models , delays, port congestions, canal blockage etc. – Boston Consulting Group, Climate Action Pays Off in Transportation and Logistics, July 2020. Japan, France and China.

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KEPLER Consulting

MARCH 25, 2018

In addition, technological fertility with a large computational capacity and new generations increasingly “trendy”, are the key ingredients to promote this digital transition since the Internet bubble. The same goes for robotic handling trucks transporting semi-products, from station to station, on less and less predefined routes.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For example: Japan earthquake 2016. One source reports disruptions increased over 60% between 2019 and 2020. Source: McKinsey. Common supply chain disruptions of the past – supplier performance, forecast errors, transportation breakdowns – used historical data to predict and manage risk. Review sourcing and suppliers.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 9, 2020

To put this in perspective, Australia’s second-largest trading partner is Japan, which accounts for 9.7 The effects include: Severe disruption to shipping, with many Chinese ports operating at drastically reduced capacity and around 200 sailings cancelled. Japan, $14.376 billion – partner share 13.16 Japan, $18.8

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

“If you have a tsunami and part of your supply chain is knocked out, as happened a few years ago, you have better info about where parts are,” he said, referring to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath. Will he declare China a currency manipulator ?

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