Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nineteen percent of responders said that they believe shifting production away from China would help supply chains while another 27% said this change could maybe alleviate supply issues.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Multiple published reports, including China based media, indicate that global wide electric vehicle producer Tesla has acquired land to be able to construct and produce this provider’s Megapack battery packs. Additional Perspective The trade relationships and supply network specific protectionist policies among China and U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The US-China Trade Conference discussed implications of tariff increases, China production advantages, established supply chain capabilities, ASEAN alternatives, and strategies for mitigating any negative impacts from recent 301 tariff increases.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 10, 2023

John Ferguson, chief executive officer of TBM Consulting Group, discusses the importance of Taiwan to global semiconductor production, and tells how the supply chain would be impacted by China invading Taiwan.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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Resilinc

JANUARY 16, 2023

After running the game 24 times in seven hours, the group found that the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and other allies would likely defeat China and preserve Taiwan’s independence—but at enormous costs. How can the US prepare for a China-Taiwan war? What will happen to semiconductors if China invades Taiwan? Meanwhile, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog provides supply chain focused perspectives on this week’s indications of slower economic growth across China. Background This week, China’s Statistics Agency reported that the country’s economy grew a disappointing GDP growth rate of 6.3

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 12, 2022

An omicron outbreak in China is sending jitters through supply chains as manufacturers and shippers brace for disruption inside the world’s-biggest trading nation if it can’t contain the fast-spreading variant.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

and China is unfolding. It continues to drive the diversification of tech supply chains away from China. An ongoing tech war between the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports indicating that Europe based Airbus will double China based aircraft final assembly output by 2024. The Announcement Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Airbus announced plans t o double the production of the company’s final assembly production capabilities within China.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Health officials abroad have been struggling to work out the scale of the outbreak and how to stop it spreading, with more countries introducing measures such as pre-departure COVID tests for arrivals from China, moves that Beijing has criticised,” reported Reuters on January 4. Some good news: Reuters cited WHO statements on Jan.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You might think that the recent spate of supply chain disruptions would have caused a stampede of manufacturers out of China, or at least prompted them to diversify sourcing. But that hasn’t been the case.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 13, 2022

China said the U.S. is engaging in economic protectionism that undermines trade rules and threatens the global supply chain.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As I alluded to in an earlier post, the scenario of China invading Taiwan, and halting all semiconductor production is highly unlikely, for a number of reasons. If China went into Taiwan and said “We are taking over,” the workforce would simply not support it! Huawei) is making the situation worse for China than they have let on.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 12, 2022

government as it seeks to counter the dominance of China in clean-technology supply chains. Developers of battery metals projects can win support from the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

In this Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Thought Leadership Perspective viewpoint, we highlight added signs of China and global-wide production contraction and the implications of such trending. China ’s imports reportedly declined 12.4 The country’s exports in July declined 14.5 The country’s exports in July declined 14.5

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 10, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights yesterday’s announcement that Tesla will construct and operate a Megapack storage battery production facility in China. The Announcement Tesla indicated plans to construct and operate a large scale battery production facility in Shanghai , China. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2023

based companies doing business within, or sourcing supply chain materials and production within China. Specially related to China , Apple alone experienced multiple days of production shortfalls involving Foxconn’s Zhengzhou “ iPhone City ” manufacturing complex resulting in a revenue shortfall for iPhone14 holiday orders.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 23, 2022

Apple is preparing to manufacture its new iPhone in India months earlier than it did previous models, because it wants to boost production outside China amid growing global tensions and supply chain disruptions in the country.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

companies aren’t impacted by trade tensions with China in the near future, they must act now. . To ensure that U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 5, 2022

campaign against human-rights abuses in China. Pandemic and war have upended American supply chains. The next shock may come from the U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2022

Here’s a breakdown of how the situation in China is intensifying global supply chain chaos.

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IT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The post Bombshell new figures highlight collapse of exports to the EU Big Four – plus the USA & China! By David Jinks M.I.L.T Head of Consumer Research, ParcelHero. appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2017

China’s position as a production location is currently a hot topic amongst global thought leaders in supply chain. The general price level of products made in China is rising rapidly, and it has been claimed that some of the products actually originate in North Korea. 1 “China is becoming too expensive material-wise”.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 3, 2023

Per Hong, partner and core member of the strategic operations and transformation practice of Kearney, describes the many factors that are affecting the flow of trade with China.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I see a similar paradigm playing out in the warehouse automation landscape of China. However, at this point it appears that mobile warehouse robotics adoption has accelerated rapidly in China. China’s Five-Year Plan and Digitization China as a country has chosen digitization as a core tenet of the country’s Five-Year Plan.

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Adexa

JUNE 15, 2020

the leading provider of intelligent AI-powered solutions for supply chain optimization and digitalization, today signed a joint agreement with Qingdao Innovation Institute (QDII) for expansion of its operations in China. The post Adexa Forms a Joint Venture in China appeared first on Adexa. Visit: www.csvinnovation.com.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 24, 2022

But it was featured on CNN Business and in other business media because it had traveled 6,000 miles from Xian China and represented a growing trend in China-Europe supply chains: shifting a portion of container traffic away from pricey and congested ocean shipping lanes to rail. It’s growing dramatically however.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2020

China trade war already had American companies rethinking their relationships with Chinese manufacturers. Then came two additional nails in the coffin.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on the latest reported information involving the Foxconn Zhengzhou China “ iPhone City ” facility that has for several days been subject to reports of Covid-19 virus outbreaks and resulting facility operational restrictions. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 4, 2021

Extreme weather in China is becoming the latest challenge to global supply chains, as a heavy typhoon season threatens to further delay goods stuck at some of the world’s busiest container ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our readers added perspectives on this week’s reports indicating that Apple has initiated plans for production of the upcoming new model iPhone14 to be sourced from both China and India. That would allow such sites the ability to foster independent processes from that of China.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 30, 2023

In the short span of the 21st Century, the world’s two top powers, the United States and China, have moved inexplicably toward a showdown. What does this mean for US business doing business in and with China? US companies exported nearly $149 billion worth of goods to China, but China still exports over $400 billion to the US.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 24, 2023

Exiger ‘s Bob Kolasky monthly column for Homeland Security Today focuses on homeland and national security challenges centered around China: Supply chain insecurity is exacerbated by intentional foreign investment in critical and sensitive industries.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Supply Chain Matters begins our perspectives of the current 2022 holiday fulfillment period with highlights of what is usually recognized as the globe’s singular largest online shopping event, that being the China Singles Day festival that culminated on November 11. All rights reserved.

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Exiger Perspectives

JULY 14, 2023

The metals — gallium and germanium — will be subject to unspecified export controls beginning August 1, China announced on July 3. supply of both metals comes directly from China. The restrictions from China may trigger former producers in Germany and Kazakhstan to restart commercial production, which could provide the U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For the next few decades, demographic changes will exert a major inflationary threat. But a reversal in globalization will also lead to less efficient global production,

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