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Slight Decline in April Global Production and Supply Chain Activity Levels

Supply Chain Matters

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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Highlights From Blue Yonder’s Global Week of Giving 2023

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.” – Shreeya Hegde, Bangalore, India “7 of us from the Singapore Office visited Foodbank SG’s warehouse yesterday to help them with sorting of their incoming food donations and taking inventory of the items received. In Singapore, about 10% of Singaporeans have faced food insecurity in the last 12 months.

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Now Is the Right Time for Supply Chains To Do the Right Things

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

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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Understanding the Salaries in Supply Chain Management

SCMDOJO

Salaries You Can Expect in Supply Chain Management Region-Wise: Here is a list of salaries for different supply chain designations: Demand planner, Supply chain analyst, Master scheduler, Purchasing manager, Inventory manager, Logistics manager, Procurement manager, Materials manager, Supply chain manager, and Supply chain director.

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Insights on Covid-19’s Impact on Singapore’s eCommerce Market

Vinculum

It’s been a while since Singapore’s circuit breaker; Singapore has shown immense change in the way the citizens live, business strategies, practically everything has taken a turn. It was good to see how Singapore split work arrangements, shift work and take measures to curtail the spread of Covid-19 on Singapore.

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Chinese New Year Shutdown 2020: How to Prepare

ShipBob

In mainland China (and even in other countries that celebrate the holiday such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei), the Chinese New Year holiday is a very big deal. Get prepared for the year of the rat with the best kind of red envelope, keeping your business in stock of inventory!

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As Inventories and Capacity Expansion Grew Too Quickly in 2022, Customers are Forcing Suppliers to Bear the Brunt of Optimistic Forecasts

NC State SCRC

However, I’ve been hearing more and more stories about how the rapid over-expansion of many brands and retailers in 2021 has proven to result in all kinds of problems, specifically around additional inventory, excess capacity, and over-expansion of the workforce.