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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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our Annual 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. Let’s begin with the sharing of excerpts from our first prediction.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 13, 2022

Steve is he Managing Director of Haxlar , an integrated manufacturing solutions provider, delivering design, manufacturing, sourcing, supply chain, and product management services for a wide range of industries. As a retained executive search consultant, he built C-suite leadership teams for clients in a variety of industries.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 27, 2022

Managing the flow of goods within the apparel industry requires an extensive and well-established supply chain network. Since this particular industry is insanely fast-paced, any problem within the supply chain can lead to a loss of sales for the business. Why Does the Apparel Industry Require Supply Chain Management?

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Companies in every industry are focusing on operating more sustainably and embracing environmental stewardship — and with good reason. Following on the heels of COVID-19, port closures, labor shortages and geopolitical conflict, climate change-related events are emerging as a significant source of supply chain disruption. In the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2024

Brazil, China, India, and the United States indices remained at expansionary levels. The April report was headlined with India’s manufacturers increasing input inventories to near record pace to prepare for increased output. China China’s official PMI compiled by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics was reported as 50.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Ensuring that any approach is fully compliant in order to avoid having to relocate production or supply sources often takes up a lot of internal resources. Many companies buy forward inventory ahead of tariffs being implemented. Relocating production from China. This practice is illegal. Operational strategies. Buying forward.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. Background. Prediction Background. For those businesses located in the U.S., Canada or Mexico.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Currently, companies struggle with rolling electric outages in China. Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Why We Cannot Get Inventory Right.

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EMERGE App

APRIL 5, 2024

The picture of wholesale distribution industry in 2024 The report from Research and Markets forecasts that the wholesale market size will reach $68,092.65 With those who just joined the industry, unsurprisingly you are facing immense struggles too. billion by 2028, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5%.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Importing From China! Product Sourcing Agent article and permission to publish here provided by Joyce Chen at Epic Sourcing. Your manufacturer is the backbone of your company; it regulates your inventory, which determines how consumers perceive and communicate with you. Who is a Product Sourcing Agent?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) The airline industry? And, in consumer products industries, the latency of syndicated data is deadly. Instead, use demand sensing technologies to detect patterns with minimal latency into inventory requirements.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

They collectively provide evidence that the prior disruptions still occurring among industry supply chains, compounded by the latest manufacturing, logistics and transportation disruptions occurring in China, will have a longer economic and service level effect in the coming months. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

In our previously published Supply Chain Matters Editorial commentary , The Federal Reserve’s Interest Rate Action and the Signal for Assessment , this Editor provided a summary of likely implications that industry supply chain leaders and their respective teams should be focusing on in the coming months. 44 percent are highly concerned.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

The staff at the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) note, however, that the logistics industry plays an “out-sized — and often underappreciated — role … within the greater transportation ecosystem.”[1] His detailed written record paved the way for future traders and merchants traveling between Europe and China.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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. By 1979, China was one of the globe’s fastest-growing economies.

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2020

Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. . Automotive and industrial manufacturing plants are being shuttered around the world, which has affected not just the OEMs but also their Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 suppliers. of car dealerships in China had reopened, up from 28.3%

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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. But there was a cost to this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. The inventories index decreased 2.1 manufacturers are continuing to draw down inventory levels. The three specific regions of concern are the Eurozone, United Kingdom along with Taiwan.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

This is what happened next: Demand spiked for protective equipment : Everyone needed masks and gowns, most of which are produced in factories in China, so they ramped up production. This meant a shipping container shortage in China, which needed them the most as they were working night and day to produce protective gear.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I am a proponent of dual sourcing. The vulnerabilities with sole sourcing are very real. Just-in-time Supply Chains have long been the envy of companies and industries of all kinds. The concept of only bringing in inventory on demand is very compelling when inventories are considered costly, wasteful and cash drains.

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USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 17, 2020

It is difficult to put into exact figures the effects the coronavirus pandemic has had on global industry. But some businesses and industries—like toilet tissue, hand soaps and sanitizers, and face mask manufacturers—are experiencing a heavy increase in demand. As a result, manufacturers are shifting to domestic sources.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Now nearly 10 months later as many industrialized nations are facing a new peak in infections, it is a good time to review these recommendations, take stock of what we have learned, and discuss how organizations can prepare for this new spike. The skills developed and the sheer size of the labor pool makes it improbable.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

This April, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security imposed a $300 million civil penalty against Seagate Technology for selling hard disk drives to Huawei Technologies in violation of the foreign direct product rule. The other industry specific solution is Oracle’s solution for aerospace & defense.

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USC Consulting Group

JUNE 3, 2020

Many organizations in a variety of industries did just that when the pandemic first struck. “The food and beverage industry is ramping up efforts to adjust and adapt.” But the meat industry may have gotten the worst of it. ” Dairy industry plagued by problems.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On this Cyber Monday , Supply Chain Matters provides perspectives on where various industry supply chain management teams should be focusing their attention both short and longer term. . Profitability objectives are paramount, but inventory overhang remains a significant challenge. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

We contrast the various takeaway messages from this gathering, especially as it relates to industry supply chain efforts in the coming year. An area of common discussion was that of where globalization might be headed, and what that implies for industry and global supply chains.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

When that stopped, the industry found itself in a crunch and within just months, prices took off by some 400%. Even if you don’t care about world economics or how the logistics industry operates, this is important. But freight is a trillion-dollar industry, and no one wants it to collapse anytime soon. Credit: Lufthansa ).

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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

APRIL 22, 2021

alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. So when we talk a lot about Industry 4.0 From that perspective some changes have been clearly positive (e.g.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Source: S&P Global, April, 2023 Highlights of Regional Reporting Developed Regions Eurozone The S&P Global Eurozone Manufacturing PMI® fell again in March to a value of 47.3 compared to the February value of 48.5, for January.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog shares a mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 predictions for industry supply chains published at the beginning of 2022. We especially take note of where there have been significant developments and noteworthy shifts in areas of predictions.

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