Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

Global Manufacturing Output Levels Strengthen Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended March on an optimistic footing. Of further significance was the March report indication that the rate of growth in global manufacturing output has accelerated to a 21-month high.

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QAD

JANUARY 27, 2022

When we think about 3D printing and additive manufacturing (AM), there’s plenty of “geek talk for even the nerdiest of engineers around topology optimization, powder bed fusion, laser sintering, isotropics, and the latest composite materials,” according to QAD Director of Industrial and High Tech, Glenn Graney in a recent article in ERP News.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond. Tight capacity and high rates. Download the Report: 2021 Peak Shipping Season Survey.

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

With 2024 on the horizon, more manufacturers are adopting smart manufacturing technology. It is helping them capture benefits across the entire manufacturing value chain. Examples of intelligent factories include on-demand manufacturing and virtual inventories.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Those manufacturers who are still using legacy or customized computer systems will find it difficult to make the necessary changes. Integration of design and manufacturing. Many manufacturers use a CAD/CAM system for design and engineering control. Quality management. Customer interaction. After-sales support.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? The seeds for this current market were sown in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 17, 2022

Manufacturers and distributors can leverage Cloud ERP to revolutionize the way they do business and manage disruption as the impact of the global pandemic, regional instabilities, and natural disasters continues to cause supply chain volatility. Securing a digital future with Cloud ERP.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 22, 2021

Gain Control Over Your Production With Effective Capacity Planning. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case. Capacity planning is the answer you’re looking for. Now to answer the basic question, what is capacity planning? Of course, it will!

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ThroughPut

JUNE 22, 2021

Gain Control Over Your Production With Effective Capacity Planning. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case. Capacity planning is the answer you’re looking for. Now to answer the basic question, what is capacity planning? Of course, it will!

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Custom fabricators have to cope with highly varying demand cycles from many different steel sales customers, and to do that effectively they need capacity. They’re building that capacity with more equipment. Look for the steel fabrication industry to want to add capacity to gear up for the unexpected.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

In a survey of 54 senior executives, only about one in four believed that the processes of their companies balanced cross-functional trade-offs effectively or facilitated decision making to help the P&L (profit and loss) of the full business.” There is a known problem for manufacturers in synchronizing their supply chain.

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USC Consulting Group

JUNE 30, 2020

This is particularly the case among manufacturers, many of whom were sidelined by COVID-19 due to labor shortages caused by layoffs and a number of workers falling ill from the virus. As early as February, roughly 60% of manufacturing firms in the U.S. As early as February, roughly 60% of manufacturing firms in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , provided a banner headline of global manufacturing output showing signs of stabilizing at the conclusion of Q1. That stated, the reported 49.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. What is supply chain visibility? Agility to act on transparency.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 19, 2023

His primary goal has been leveraging Coyote’s proprietary technology, people, and capacity to solve pressing customer challenges. For the study, Coyote worked with a 3rd party research firm to survey over 500 supply chain decision makers. Businesses ranged in size from $250M to over $5B in annual revenue. 81% were from the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The August S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI™ again fell to a two-year low of 51.5, The August 2022 J.P.

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IQMS

JULY 24, 2019

With a focus on business process improvement, our consultants are regularly out in the field guiding manufacturers and distributors that are challenged with managing the complexity of their operations. They had no real-time visibility into shop floor activity, capacity or inventory levels to fulfill orders and equipment effectiveness.

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Logility

JULY 7, 2021

Using IBP, sales leaders can study traditional sales data, such as history and forecasts, juxtaposed with inventory projections and manufacturing capacity. Celebration gives way to a fight for capacity. Analysis might reveal capacity opportunities with other product families. For example, IBP should include Sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our monthly highlights commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Now, with September and full Q3 reporting available, global manufacturing activity has officially fallen below the 50.0 Global Wide Production Activity. represented a 0.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Canoo to build battery manufacturing facility in Oklahoma. Electric vehicle startup Canoo Inc said on Wednesday it would build a battery manufacturing facility at Pryor in Oklahoma with a capacity of 3,200 Megawatt hours production. However, as September progressed demand cooled and capacity continued to loosen.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Every day, retailers and manufacturers are challenged to balance ambitious customer service promises with profit margin protection. Extending visibility of available capacities in the market enables a more effective result, often delivering win-wins for collaborative trading partners. How great can the impact be?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides monthly highlight commentary and perspectives on published October 2022 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Now, October reporting data reinforces global-wide contraction levels in production and new orders, along with manufacturing recession conditions now acknowledged for Europe.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many modern businesses now rely on automation in manufacturing to get products built faster, optimise workplace processes, and get orders to customers more efficiently. Let’s take a look at some of the manufacturing automation options available, their benefits, and current trends to consider. How does automation in manufacturing work?

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A survey conducted in the United Kingdom by the Institute of Directors (IoD), a 120-year-old British political organization, found that the larger a company is the more likely it is to be adversely affected by geopolitical tensions. The risks run the gamut from trade wars to actual wars.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Manufacturers like Hyundai are experiencing a shortage of components that threaten s to halt production. A recent online survey conducted b y MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics aimed to understand how companies are reacting to the Coronavirus outbreak. Ready to equip your team for resilience? .

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

Approximately 60 percent of today's unfilled manufacturing jobs are due to a shortage of applicants with sufficient proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math ( STEM ) skills. Even more alarming is the news that 69 percent of the executives surveyed said they expect the problem to worsen over the next five years.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A recent Gallup survey reported that 46 million American patients are so financially insecure that they cannot afford to follow their healthcare provider’s recommendations to the fullest extent. In addition, one in eight surveyed adults cut back their spending on necessities such as food, clothing, and utilities to pay for them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

A recent survey of global supply chain leaders suggests to me that the industry risks losing momentum. If you’re a typical shipper, 30-50% of your lanes change every year, and your demand goes up and down which impacts capacity, so it’s a constant battle. You need visibility because you live within such a variable network.”

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Based on a survey of economists, the WSJ reported expectations of recession had dropped markedly. With that, let’s turn to and analyze PMI-Manufacturing. Key Economic Indicator #5: PMI-Manufacturing The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI for December 2023 decreased to 47.9 Flash US Manufacturing Output Index.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Port congestion, capacity constraints, large increases in rates across all modes, labour shortages and long delays in shipments—these are just some of the operating realities supply chain and logistics professionals face today. Do you know where the manufacturing facilities of your suppliers (and their suppliers) are physically located?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

With Russia exporting many critical commodities, Deloitte explained, there are insufficient raw materials for supply and manufacturing use. Would it not be simpler to access capacity that can scale while keeping tabs on the total costs more easily? Worse still, drivers feel the impact as service demand declines in the target markets.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

Manufacturing and supply chains couldn’t ramp up fast enough. Orchestrating the efforts of suppliers, manufacturers, truck drivers, warehouses, retail employees, and other critical links in the supply chain was no small feat. Closures and social distancing measures impacted manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In our prior highlights and perceptions of September and October published indices , we observed that the numbers once again signaled continued contraction in global manufacturing output and product demand levels. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. in November.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A Freightos survey of 300+ companies sheds light on how importers have been navigating supply chain disruptions. Since then, we’ve sent out two similar surveys – one in June and one at the end of November – to track the effect of increased supply chain disruptions on companies ranging from small businesses to enterprise importers.

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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 The reported September value was 43.4,

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

And we accomplished it without increasing inventory or manufacturing capacity,” says Dale Groetsema, Supply Chain Leader for Boise, a manufacturer that produces over 475,000 tons of commodity and specialty papers annually. “We had one customer re-up because we could provide them service they couldn’t get anywhere else.

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