Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

India has again demonstrated the highest level of PMI growth and the report authors point to Greece, Indonesia, Russia and Brazil as demonstrating stronger rates of expansion. Of further significance was the March report indication that the rate of growth in global manufacturing output has accelerated to a 21-month high. an increase of 2.5

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 11, 2022

Russia shows no sign of halting its attack. Transportation/logistics companies who can commit air, ground, and warehousing capacity. Benjamin received a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College. A Letter From Ben Gordon Regarding The Ukraine Logistics Coalition.

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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Trade basically ceased as ports closed because of western- imposed economic sanctions on Russia. Cargo planes could not fly out of or into Russia or Ukraine. Likewise, ships could not sail into or out of Russia and Ukraine. That exacerbated food shortages with Russia and Ukraine among the top five grain exporters.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

That prospect became more conceivable, they said, after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine prompted companies to sever ties with Russia, sometimes taking huge write-downs. million cubic feet capacity can store more than 9 million products, according to a statement. And now on to this week’s logistics news. feet across five floors, with 2.7

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Logistics Middle East

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The group revealed that the sale of its inland depot facility in Novorossiisk, with a capacity of 1,500 containers (TEU), and a chilled and frozen warehouse in St. Petersburg had obtained regulatory approvals in the European Union and Russia.

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Alloy

MARCH 29, 2022

The devastation experienced by Ukraine and its people has prompted the western world to levy sanctions on Russia, the idea being to put so much pressure on Russia’s economy that they will pack up their military and go home. Reuters has been tracking all major sanctions since the crisis began. EU and Canadian airspace.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. The trucking industry was down 80,000 drivers in 2021, and that shortage is anticipated to balloon to 160,000 by 2030. It’s a global problem. China, which had a worker surplus of 55.2 million to 75.3 million by 2030.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 2, 2022

Against an already turbulent backdrop of global inflationary pressures amid rising food and energy prices and disrupted supply chains following the coronavirus pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine is exacerbating supply and demand tensions, damaging consumer sentiment, and is threatening global economic growth.”[4] 4] Husain agrees.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

Last year multiple companies needed to urgently relocate their employees and their families from Russia and Ukraine. For example, we can now model adding or removing a warehouse, increasing capacity at our production lines, adding more trucks to the fleet, and basically any other change you can think of. Think about these relocations!

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

to Asia , as well as the European consequences of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict as now driving added index volatility. The April report specifically indicates t hat after 23 consecutive months of contraction the index of Transportation Capacity shifted back into expansion, bumping up 11.2 after reaching an all-time high of 76.2

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2022

Ellwanger explains, “The pandemic, coupled with the Russia-Ukraine war, have contributed to shortages of confectionary supplies like cocoa, edible oils and other ingredients — a situation also cited by Mondelez International this week.” ” The reasons that this year’s balancing act is particularly tricky are numerous.

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Proxima

AUGUST 25, 2022

The city’s port lost around 45 percent of its trucking capacity this spring as the city ground to a halt, resulting in around 80 percent of vessels being delayed, in comparison to 20 percent two years previously. The threat of sudden lockdowns continues to loom over procurement teams.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 11, 2022

In such an environment, it is hardly surprising that fixing supply capacity issues is a top priority for companies. Moreover, as our analysis of operational failures underlines, supply capacity losses represent a leading cause of supply chain disruptions in general. how much capacity should we have?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Much of the capacity utilized to produce such devices is legacy technology, and chip makers have long since concentrated on the most sophisticated chips that provide much higher margins and profits. coupled with the ongoing hostilities involving Russia and Ukraine.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 20, 2018

Global LNG export capacity is constantly increasing and there are a large number of liquefaction projects at different stages of construction worldwide. The current top seven exporters of LNG in the world are Qatar, Australia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Algeria and Russia. RENEWABLES & LOW CARBON ENERGY.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 8, 2023

The concern for economic recession was especially focused on Europe with the ongoing hostilities of the Russia and Ukraine conflict and with residual high levels of inflation. Industry supply chain management and integrated business planning teams need to be diligent in their planning of resources and global capacity.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The New York Times reported this week (Paid subscription or metered view) that the ongoing effects of the hostilities involving Russia and Ukraine , and the consequent impacts of severe power shortages in the coming weeks are menacing the continent: “ with what some fear could become its most challenging economic and financial crisis in decades.”.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The responses to events such as COVID-19, chip shortages, the Suez Canal blockage, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, and general economic turmoil, has been to try and become more efficient… to perfect stocks. Multiplying the number of suppliers is another, to reduce risk should one partner’s capacity drop off.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

Both facility capacity and lingering supply chain supply challenges have contributed to the delay. billion auto production facility, which received full approval from German regulators on March 4th, has a full capacity of 500,000 vehicles annually. Musk again publicly apologized for the ongoing delays of the Cybertruck. In the U.S.,

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

The demand is subjected to change due to many factors drastically, including pandemics (COVID-19), war (Russia-Ukraine war), and last but not least technological advancements. There is no limit on the order size due to the storage capacity: The warehouse might have two concerns ; the first is related to the capacity of the warehouse.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

An added implication is cited data indicating that the average Asia-East Coast container vessel during 2020 and 2021 had average capacity levels of 9,390 TEU ’s and that 2022 ship sizes are expected to decline to 8,699 TEU ’s, thus requiring added unloading cycles. This was a noted challenge for major U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 29, 2021

High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE. Russia sent covid assistance in the form of oxygen concentrators and generators. WHO clearly stated that filling critical gaps in essential medical supplies and managing hospital capacities is the top priority for India in this deadly surge of the second wave of Covid – 19.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Maersk said Tuesday it was halting bookings in light of the sanctions imposed on Russia, including congestion being caused by customs authorities inspecting cargo bound for the country and changing credit terms impacting its customers. Maersk and MSC said they would continue to move foodstuffs to and from Russia.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

trailed both Saudi Arabia and Russia in oil production, and it trailed Russia in natural gas production. A perfect example of where this phrase applies is the Oil and Gas industry, especially here in the United States where we’ve seen significant change and volatility over the past 5+ years. But by 2014, the U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 2, 2023

The Port Authority chairman said the agreement to import such a large volume of wheat was a remarkable development towards improving the natural capacity of Gwadar Port as a logistics hub in the area.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 27, 2015

Reheating furnaces to hot rolling steel at the production line of Cherepovets Steel Mill, Russia. FNsteel, a major European steel producer , was planning based on the orders it was receiving, instead of the capacity it had on the floor. The outlook for the steel industry in 2015 remains cautious.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

As noted in our perspectives on reported Q1 PMI global indices, there are common themes of growing headwinds and added geo-political and/or supply network concerns related to effects of the Russia-Ukraine hostilities and China’s potential economic stumble as a result of a strict COVID-19 isolation policy. percentage points from Q1 to Q2.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 15, 2023

China has a lot more processing and smelting capacity than any other country. Only a handful of companies in Japan, Russia, South Korea, and Canada produce gallium at the required level of purity; and that only accounts for 20% of global gallium exports. In this fight, we only lose.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The second is transit time, which has the potential to return to pre-pandemic levels if volumes drop significantly or if there is more investment in capacity. Having access to one of the largest portfolios of LTL capacity in the industry allows us to quickly provide alternate solutions when needed. This is a tricky question.

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Resilinc

APRIL 4, 2023

Over the past year, Resilinc’s supply chain disruption monitoring platform EventWatch AI has sent out 242 alerts on sanctions against Russia. Thus far in 2023, EventWatch AI has sent 19 updates related to sanctions against Russia; 15 of those alerts were sent in February alone. Learn more about the impact of the EU diesel ban.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2022

CFO Brian Olsavsky elaborated that the online retailer incurred $6 billion in incremental costs related to productivity loss, inflation and situations where warehouse capacity exceeded market demand levels. He further declared that the company is no longer constrained by labor and capacity. Added Supply Chain Matters Insights.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 5, 2023

From the earlier post-pandemic shocks to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the acceleration of energy transition, these factors have caused further uncertainty for the oil and gas industry. The energy trilemma of energy security, sustainability, and affordability is kicking in full gear in 2023.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 25, 2023

The Ukrainian Port of Reni on the Danube was operating at maximum capacity July 25, despite an attack by Russian drones July 24.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For example, Brookings analysts Wendy Edelberg and Mitchell Barnes assert, “The unwelcome and persistent rise in inflation that began in 2021 suggests that consumer demand boosted by fiscal support and strong household balance sheets continue to outpace the capacity of businesses and their global supply chains to expand.”[3].

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QAD

AUGUST 30, 2022

This industry was also heavily disrupted by the growing international distrust between the US, China and Russia and, if signed, will require a US (or US trade-friendly) battery supply chain, leaving most cars sold in the US ineligible for a tax credit. All this while fighting against time. Time is a startup’s biggest scarcity.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 16, 2023

Yet Rand’s Matheny contends that developing the kind of semiconductor manufacturing capacity Taiwan has developed will take decades. He notes that providing these weapons in sufficient volume could deter Chinese aggression and safeguard the Taiwanese chip industry “for about a tenth of the cost of the CHIPS Act.”.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

This strategy involves a country from a high-cost country area — typically US, UK, Canada, Australia, and West European nations — purchasing materials from resource-rich low-cost countries; think China, India, Indonesia, Bolivia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, and East European nations. Higher production capacity. New technology and capacity.

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