Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. The goal of this team is to minimize disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5 China’s Specific Impact.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort. But then global freight kicked in. . It really got tricky when we hadover thousands of unitsin production and were starting to book freight and suddenly realized that the cost of freight was almost 4 or 5X what we had budgeted. It’s suddenly about the economy.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But SHIFEX, the freight forwarder rate index, recently recorded the lowest ocean freight rate between China and the port of Long Beach in 24 months —a rate of $3,500 to move a 40-foot container. Economists are beginning to speak of “immaculate disinflation.” This is an 80% drop year on year drop.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! This underscores the importance of China being the world’s manufacturing hub in the past decade, and most likely for the next few decades. Introduction. Chinese Business Directories.

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QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Unpredictability is undoubtedly the major issue manufacturers face when dealing with fragmented supply chains. As the supply chain breaks, manufacturers must find new suppliers and new transport routes and find them rapidly, so that production doesn’t come to a halt. So, how can manufacturers respond to these challenges?

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, was interviewed by Philip Ideson from Art of Procurement to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Procurement. When the crisis hit, Procurement as a function was suddenly in the hot seat, and it became the driving force for business continuity.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Without a doubt 2020 will be etched in our memories as the year of multiple disasters, with the Covid-19 pandemic, trade issues between the US and China, wildfires in Australia, social unrest in Hong Kong, drastic declines in oil prices, turbulent financial markets and other politically dominated issues in emerging markets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I was on the phone with Australia, China, Indonesia – really everywhere – trying to negotiate directly with suppliers. Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Many of their suppliers were using the same sub-tier manufacturers.

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ivalua

MARCH 31, 2020

And even if an order from an overseas supplier were to be filled, delivery issues would be compounded by the declining number of air and ocean freight options to move products into the U.S. Without an intact supply chain, a manufacturing business will starve for key inputs into its production process. But recovery may be fragile.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

Manufacturers and shipping companies assumed that because of layoffs, demand would drop. As the pandemic eased, ports suffered bottlenecks, natural disasters disrupted freight movement, railways suffered congestion, and new legislation further complicated the movement of goods. As you know, demand for some items surged.

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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. . A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prior to the pandemic, efficiency meant just-in-time manufacturing, but disruptions exposed the flaw in this approach. Sanctions, blocked Ukrainian ports, and stalled transportation routes have also disrupted the China-to-Europe supply chain. Rethink just-in-time inventory policies: There could be another pandemic or another war.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 5, 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 edging only slightly higher. That stated, the reported value of 49.6 declined 1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight. More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 24, 2019

A decade ago it was unrealistic to compete with “the China price”. Manufacturing was transformed into a global enterprise. And this low cost fostered a mentality of incremental thinking with mid-level managers focused on squeezing out 1-2% a year in cost savings through sourcing, says Pete Guarraia of Bain consultancy. .

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 13, 2015

‘Supply Chain Opportunities in China’. Introduction – Guillaume Burette, General Manager Logistics – DSV China. China: from sourcing location to an end market. 12:00 China as a Global Distribution Centre – Manufacturing and bonded warehousing. Rietdijk, SVP Global Sourcing – Vestas. 18:00 End.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The report further indicates that two downstream suppliers in China that rely on the parts and assemble them into larger modules are also cutting their production 70 percent and 90 percent, respectively. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S. West Coast had declined to the lowest level in more than two years.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

Even before the pandemic, global supply chain were fragile thanks to factors such as the US-China trade war, less efficient shipping routes and a huge drive to cut costs by consolidating loads. Just as manufacturers and distributors were starting to climb out of the ‘COVID hole’, they’ve been knocked back in.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 22, 2024

The price of container freight rates surged while the entire world was having to deal with delays. Read more about The Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Procurement at our website SCMDOJO! Among surveyed respondents, nearly 97% of industrial product companies saw disruptions during the pandemic.

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

The upstream supply chain refers to the flow of inventory in the pre-production stage, mostly in relation to the organization’s suppliers. It involves all the activities related to the sourcing and transportation of raw materials needed in the manufacturing process. Additionally, logistics planning should also be a top priority.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Carrier rates are declining across the board, and Seatrade Maritime News reported an “expected trough of freight rates to mid-2023 from 2024 with a lower demand forecast and a higher than expected effective capacity increase due to the unwinding of congestion. Carriers Will Lower Rates But Keep Many Others.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

According to PLS Logistics , global companies will install procurement managers in China for entire organizations by 2025. There was a time when buying a computer was considered a once-in-a-decade purchase, if not once-in-a-lifetime. Globalization Will Become More Important in Everyday Decisions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 31, 2020

With China as both the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak, and the largest manufacturing output country in the world, the disruption to the manufacture and disruption of goods originated here. Sourcing strategies must be altered to develop parallel supply chains to create dual sourcing networks.

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Arena Solutions

JUNE 30, 2020

It wasn’t long ago that the headlines highlighted global trade wars and the effect that was having on manufacturing and supply chains in certain parts of the world, like China. Apple and Foxconn made the headlines for their efforts to reduce supply chain risks by expanding manufacturing into more geographies.

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3rdwave

JUNE 21, 2019

Any company that trades globally or depends on products that are sourced globally are going to find out what resiliency means. punitive tariffs on China could very quickly escalate to $450B worth of product ). Supply chain hardship will be broadly felt and effect finished goods distributors and manufacturers alike.

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Elementum

AUGUST 9, 2022

Executive Summary You’re probably familiar with the concept of Design for Manufacturing: taking manufacturing processes, scalability, and profitability into account as a product is being developed, and designing for optimal results given all of the known constraints. Like me, you may remember learning about them in college.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For example, let’s say your product is manufactured and packaged in China and is shipped to you in North Carolina for distribution here. You can ship the products back to China to be reconfigured and then shipped back to the U.S. Manufacturing logistics services. Third-party procurement. without using an FTZ).

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LevaData

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The bitter China–United States trade war might actually have helped organizations prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic. LevaData recently sat down (in a virtual, COVID-19-friendly manner) with a group of Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) from some of the worlds most renowned high-tech electronics and manufacturing companies.

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LevaData

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The bitter China–United States trade war might actually have helped organizations prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic. LevaData recently sat down (in a virtual, COVID-19-friendly manner) with a group of CSCOs from some of the worlds most renowned high-tech electronics and manufacturing companies. Keeping the lights on.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is why supply chain managers are always stressing over demand forecasts — something that tops the list of most critical inventory and warehouse management practices. This isn’t to say you should avoid international sources for goods. manufacturers never inquire about discounts on port duties or refunds for certain sales.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

I had the opportunity to sit in on a very thorough presentation by a member of the Economist Intelligence Unit at the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies meeting today. China will likely see a modest rebound after the 2022 slump, moving to only 5% growth. Deteriorating ties between China and EU/US force full decoupling.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Last year, the ripple effects from new tariffs on imports from China rocked warehouses and ports in America. Many retailers tried to move inventory to the United States earlier than normal to avoid impending tariffs, causing a massive influx of shipments. One obvious challenge was the added cost of importing many goods or products.

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