QAD

MAY 18, 2023

The automotive industry is undergoing a massive technological transformation toward vehicle electrification and the shift presents huge opportunities for manufacturers that do business in the US, especially since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022. What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act’s New Clean Vehicle Credit?

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 22, 2019

However, any global organisation will tell you that their concerns reach past North America. and the European Union and examines how procurement organisations can best prepare in the new year. By preparing for the coming changes, procurement organisations can minimise the negative effects on their operations.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 11, 2019

As we start 2019, it’s critical to understand how current events, changes in governmental policy and the general economic climate may affect the global procurement market and supply chain. and the European Union, and examine how procurement organizations can best prepare in the new year. Global Trade. Security & Data.

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ivalua

MAY 7, 2020

Large trading partners included China, the United States, Australia, and South Korea. And sellers in the Japanese market, such as Australian mining companies, had to find new customers to replace those Japanese manufacturers who were forced to halt production due to the quake. Most Procurement organizations are not yet advanced.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. This closed loop procurement in turn helps ensure products are made on schedule.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As public health epidemiologists warn that the coronavirus epidemic is far worse than earlier envisaged and that other countries should consider tough containment measures similar to those imposed in China, the likely human cost of the outbreak is enormous. Corona v irus could wreck the global auto industry.’.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Other materials are added to both synthetic and natural rubber to instill desired functional properties through the manufacturing process. The largest consumers of natural rubber are China, India and the United States, who simultaneously experienced a drop in demand in 2020 also due to the pandemic.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Once China was hit by a Coronavirus epidemic and factories ordered closed, it was inevitable that global supply chains would be affected. The impact on supply chains is particularly apparent in the following two broad areas— shipping and procurement of products/components/raw materials. COVID-19 Impact on Procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

China Silk Road Rail Link Disrupted. After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2023

The essence of this report that cites an informed source, indicates that Rivian is about to initiate a manufacturing reorganization that will include the relocation of portions of the start-up’s manufacturing engineering team to be directly resident at the company’s Normal, Illinois production facility.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. 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 Consultancy UK). Deloitte Global).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2023

Volkswagen’s recent announcement of plans to open a battery production facility in Canada to support North America production needs has some elements of such a strategy. Sourcing of supply not only in North America demand and supply, but also in other countries provides elements of such a strategy.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

We’ve interviewed executives in Retail , Public Sector , Procurement and other industries and disciplines to get a sense of how the industry is reacting, not only to navigate the immediate challenges, but to future proof themselves from future disruption. Shipping rates from China to the U.S. The massive global shipping squeeze.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Magazine as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. The total value of the economic incentive package will ultimately be determined by Stardust Power achieving certain business milestones around job creation and local investment, including new machinery, equipment and manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we provide highlights of manufacturing and supply chain developments involving electric vehicle automotive producers at the 2022 mid-year point. An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. Volkswagen. Rivian Automotive.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

This automaker’s report to investors clearly highlights an objective of increased production volumes to meet market demand coupled with ongoing product and manufacturing process innovations. The report to investors in the latest quarter indicates higher raw material, commodity, logistics and warranty costs as an ongoing challenge to margins.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The IHS Markit Manufacturing PMI™ reported a value of 57.3

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

percent in North America. The manufacturer has now reduced its expectations for industrywide smartphone shipments to flat or minimal growth. The company experienced impacts from China ’s recent Covid lockdowns with the company’s China region experiencing a sales decline of 1 percent from the same period a year earlier.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4 As noted in the above highlights, the situation occurring at China’s major ports remains concerning. US Logistics Index.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

This survey of a reported 750 CEO’s and other C-Suite executives was conducted in May 2022, among executives based in North America , Latin America , Asia and Europe. A further data point to these notions can be found in a newly released C-Suite Outlook Mid-Year survey report, published by The Conference Board. cyberattacks.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 29, 2020

Exporting PPE from China. Over the past several months, China has been the main source for PPE. China has recently implemented three key policies that relate to PPE exporting. Policy 12 created a white and blacklist of manufacturers and suppliers. Whether you are importing PPE into the U.S. Metered freight solutions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

China was locking down hundreds of millions of people and closing manufacturing facilities. As China is the largest manufacturing country in the world the economic repercussions were really starting to be felt. Automotive manufacturers are looking to manufacture ventilators. Italy locked down the country.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 17, 2021

The shortages in PVC and other materials are even shutting down automotive production lines, as well as other manufacturers that I’ve been speaking with. For one of the high grade ethylene required, there is only one manufacturer in North America, who is in Texas (Eastman Chemical).

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

And it’s not just companies — China has already cut its rare earth metal exports by more than 70%. Questions about how the auto-manufacturing giant would meet production goals arose soon after. The famously idealistic Silicon Valley company has pledged to source all of its cobalt in North America. Conclusion.

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

And it’s not just companies — China has already cut its rare earth metal exports by more than 70%. Questions about how the auto-manufacturing giant would meet production goals arose soon after. The famously idealistic Silicon Valley company has pledged to source all of its cobalt in North America. Conclusion.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I’m speaking, of course, of the growing number of companies who are either making a choice to manufacture in America by never offshoring in the first place or moving manufacturing back to America from overseas. Moser: I’ve spent 45 years involved in the manufacturing industry in one way or another.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is responsible for the procurement of raw materials and components for the production plants all over the globe and the negotiations with our production cooperations. Before a project begins we go through a calculation phase to cost the logistics processes, packaging and procurement of new parts. What do you use for an agenda?

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs. China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. Activities which appear to be experiencing considerable progress.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs. manufacturing facility in 2014.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

And new data suggests Mexican suppliers are gaining ground as manufacturers reset their supply chains amid growing global disruptions. At the same time, the number of suppliers in China that received procurement bids declined by 9 percent in 2021.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2018

China’s JD.com unwraps FedEx-style parcel business to bolster sales (Reuters). As reported by the Wall Street Journal : On-demand rentable trailers could cut the time carriers spend at a shipping site by 25%, said Ties Soeters, Anheuser-Busch’s vice president of logistics procurement in North America.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

Whether to relocate supply or manufacturing from China to another low-cost country or switch to a near-shoring or re-shoring strategy is not a decision to take lightly. Which Large Enterprises are Pulling Back From China? That said, it’s expected that the majority of manufacturing capacity will remain in China.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

Deere & Company (brand name John Deere) is famed for the manufacture and supply of machinery used in agriculture, construction, and forestry, as well as diesel engines and lawn care equipment. In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and was 307th in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 ranking.

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