QAD

AUGUST 12, 2021

Taking Ford as an example from the companies above, Ford is working with key suppliers in China, India, Thailand and South Africa to eliminate over 4,900 metric tons of CO2 and 24 million gallons of water usage over the next three years.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2016

As first reported by Fairfax Media , a factory in North Korea has been making high-priced surf and snow gear for Australian surfwear company Rip Curl since at least 2014, with the garments labeled “Made in China.” It’s very likely that North Koreans are producing garments for other brands too, either in the country or as slave labor in China.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

On September 3, 2016 China and the US agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change. Announced at the G20 summit in China, the US/China deal will also put pressure on other G20 nations to move faster with their pledge to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

The overall takeaway from the July data was that global production momentum had begun to stagnate and in some regions such as the Eurozone, Taiwan, and to some extent , certain manufacturing regions of China, PMI values had reached contraction levels. . Logistics Managers Index. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index.

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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We had a hangover from the pandemic: Which led to continued inventory shortages, closures of manufacturing plants in China, congested ports, and underemployment. Inflation set in for fuel and transport costs, increasing logistics costs as a whole over last year. and the global economy. We saw supply shortages lead to price increases.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 3, 2023

We have to consider the logistics carriers and the networks, brokers and internal distribution. As a result, we’ve seen a 10% increase in service metrics.”. Visibility is not just end-to-end as we know it, but an extension of the supplier’s suppliers.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 25, 2021

This monster ship, which is as long as the Empire State Building and weighs about 200,000 metric tons, became stuck due to high winds, and no one seems to be able to get it out. Because procurement executives were so focused on cost, they did not worry about shipment velocity. China is sending out a lot more exports to the U.S.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. Dr. David Closs runs the program now, but when I was a student he was teaching logistics.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Supply chain and logistics consultant, educator, and podcast host Rob O’Byrne has over 40 years of supply chain experience. He has been helping companies design more profitable supply chains for over 25 years, most of them as founder and CEO of Logistics Bureau. It’s embarrassing to say, but I’ve been in logistics since 1975.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logistics Processes to Plan For. Tips for Logistics Planning. No army should go into battle without a plan for attack; similarly, no ecommerce merchant should go into business without a plan for handling their logistics. What is logistics planning? Why logistics planning is important for ecommerce businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

Already upended for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the worldwide logistics industry is facing new challenges. The energy crisis in China and the European conflict are bringing additional chaos in the form of production shutdowns, raw material shortages and blocked shipping lanes.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I kicked off the meeting with an overview of the current dilemma facing supply chain executives, given the uncertainties of tariffs with China, Brexit in the UK, and the disturbances in Hong Kong and the Middle East that create a path with many risks in every direction. You can either ship it by boat from China (30 days) or by plane (FedEx).

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Earlier, production issues in China caused global shortages of antibiotics and other pharma products. Any combination of owned distribution centers, channel partners, fleets, and logistics service partners may comprise a company’s network. That decision threatened to bring potential meat shortages.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 16, 2023

When your business is receiving more orders than it’s possible to fulfil in-house, third-party logistics (3PL) can mean the difference between disappointing customers and capitalising on that success. In this guide to third-party logistics: What is 3PL? 3PL providers are experts when it comes to shipping and logistics.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Material Handling & Logistics ). Material Handling & Logistics ). China slowed production of aluminum and other energy-intensive metals in 2021 in an effort to reduce carbon emissions, leaving primary production in the country 1.2 How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. Chain Store Age ).

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

And the reason that we pointed out that difference is that as we monitor the supply chain technology landscape, there’s a tendency right now for supply chain risk mitigation to be purely focused on the procurement side and on the procurement technology side. Then COVID came along and China was the epicenter of that.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? A problem in procurement can impact manufacturing and logistics and planning, but often these dots are never connected, so there never emerges a cross-functional approach to working on them.

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E2open

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Companies on e2open’s connected platform can make more accurate, efficient, and autonomous decisions and improve execution for operations spanning channel, planning, logistics, global trade, and supply. Logistics On-time performance is essential to last-mile logistics. AUSTIN, Texas – Dec. 8, 2022 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

“As the logistics industry faces extraordinary pressures, maintaining a culture of compliance is more critical than ever. “When US–China trade tensions flared last year, leading companies already started to rethink the cost of network risk and invest in more resilient supply chains. EY; Twitter: @EYnews 6. “The U.S.-China

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

million metric tons annually. China tariff war—and will surely endure many more. Like the ones caused by the escalated tariffs, the changes caused by IMO 2020 will require importers and exporters to work with logistics experts to find solutions that preserve the integrity of supply chains and the profitability of their businesses.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The imbalance in logistics, the costs…the most important thing is to switch in the mindset…we need to reinvent ourselves to this new reality. . We had a lot of explosions in China, so many suppliers stopped producing active ingredients. You know, there’s no shortage of metrics and indicators out there.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Skyrocketing Rates A January 12 th advisory from Container xChange indicated that the average spot rate quoted for China to Europe passage was about $5400 per 40 foot container, up from $1,500 the week earlier. Logistics teams assessing options and related costs in shipping from Asia to Europe or from Europe to U.S. East Coast.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The result is that food waste creates 8% of all greenhouse gases in the world! “If food waste were a country it’s carbon footprint (and greenhouse gas emissions) would be third to only China and the United States.” Everyone in Supply Chain has experienced being asked to improve some metric by 25% or more.

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