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Eliminating Excess Inventory in India & China for Fortune 500 Food Manufacturer

CHAINalytics

Chainalytics helped a global food manufacturer optimise its inventory levels for a number of SKUs in India and China resulting in reduced working capital requirements and less product waste. Since food and beverage products have a short shelf life, there’s a big upside to getting inventory levels just right.

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What is Genuinely New in Supply Chain Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

The UFLPA prohibits goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in Xinjiang from entering the U.S. This act is in response to the People’s Republic of China arbitrarily detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Outside of the U.S.,

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Industry Supply Chain Implications to Slower Economic Growth Across China

Supply Chain Matters

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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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

As China’s economy slows, its leaders worry that emerging foreign government and transnational corporate strategies focused on trade with China will make matters worse. At the height of the pandemic, there were numerous calls for decoupling from China as a way to protect national interests.

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Industrial Manufacturing and the Digital Supply Chain, Part 1

BlueYonder

The following are the insights gained from my discussion with Sunil Roy , who leads Blue Yonder’s Industrial Manufacturing Industry Strategy, during a recent Blue Yonder Live and executive customer events that we prepared for jointly. Now companies from the Far East and China are having similar access to the U.S. Now it is all global.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S. A factory in Suzhou was the company’s main manufacturing site for its semiconductor test equipment, which it subcontracted to Flextronics.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. From our lens, the latter is evidence of recessionary manufacturing conditions that are now stabilizing. That stated, the reported 49.6