American Global Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

However, there is a need for more precise and comprehensive metrics to understand the full economic impact of supply chains. China's actions and policies also have significant implications for supply chains. China's zero-COVID approach, has disrupted supply chains in the near term. business logistics amounts to 9.1%

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

tensions with China boiled over into policies and restrictions that will fundamentally reshape semiconductor value chains and the myriad types of products that require chips. They are all rated strong performers by their customers across operational metrics including business continuity planning and reliability.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Overland transport solutions from Singapore all the way to China & even Europe were also executed to executed to keep supply chains moving. The digital twin allows for internal operations as well as customers to view the various processes, along with detailed metrices throughout the facility.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The recent outbreak of coronavirus has shaken communities and put companies that rely on manufacturing from facilities in Wuhan, China at risk. Planners even use key business metrics to evaluate the financial impacts of changing production facilities. But some events are more disruptive than others.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2022

Customs and Border Protection Agency’s Withhold Release Order (WRO) on cotton products sourced from China and other countries in south-east Asia. Fashion brands can collaborate with suppliers continuously to manage and verify that predetermined environmental and social metrics are being met. Add to this the U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

In many critical supply areas, such as biopharma, the now famous PPE, and high technology medical devices, not just calls, but screams for re-examining supply lines and explicitly, our reliance on China. With calls to shorten our supply lines and to become less reliant on China, comes tough questions. Not so fast….

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

China ranks number one as the country from which companies are reshoring, followed by Mexico, Canada, India, and Japan. are: Germany, China, Japan, Canada, and Korea. Chaturvedi: A major question is: What will happen when China is firing on all cylinders, shipping cost come down and COVID is receding in our rear-view mirror.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In terms of metrics, compared to traditional polyester yarn manufacturing, Greenspun requires 20% less water, uses 50% less energy, and produces 55% fewer carbon emissions.

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Material Handling & Logistics

APRIL 3, 2017

The company also tripled the number of supplier sites in the Energy Efficiency program, resulting in the reduction of over 150,000 metric tons of carbon emissions — the equivalent of taking 31,000 cars off the road for a year. read more.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The authors specifically make mention of geopolitics along with the ongoing effects of the pandemic impacting many manufacturing regions in China. The authors point to the delivery time disruptions occurring in China , an increase in air freight costs from the U.S. down slightly, but still above the all-time average of 67.4.

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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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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They are asking questions like ‘Do our facilities teams know what piping it’s included in?’ The second is tensions around export controls with China and Taiwan , which leave many companies reevaluating their global sourcing strategies. They’re trying to figure out how to find alternate suppliers out of that area.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

Metrics Definition. The organization needs to be clear on the Metrics That Matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. The frequency of the plan needs to be common across the organization. If one business has a weekly planning system, and another has a monthly system, good luck!

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2018

The New York-based China Labor Watch released a report at the weekend following a nine-month investigation of working conditions at a factory in the city of Hengyang owned by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the company known as Foxconn, which manufactures products for Amazon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

As labor costs in China increased, the network needed to be more flexible. I smiled as I began to present the story of the “Metrics that Matter.” Market-Driven llamasoft Metrics That Matter network design value-based design' Instead, it needed to be steps of continuous designs. It was the gaze of a serious crowd.

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SCM Research

APRIL 22, 2015

million metric tonnes (Mt) and it is forecasted to increase to 50 Mt in 2018. Mt) and China (6.0 A new United Nations University report, titled The Global E-waste Monitor 2014 , details e-waste generation by region. The total amount of e-waste generated in 2014 is 41.8 This e-waste comprises 12.8 Mt of small equipment (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic the global steel industry was navigating significant disruptions that included steep price competition (China has been investigated numerous times for dumping), soft demand, and tariff issues. But then executives may ask for higher sales or margins, or lower stock if key financial metrics are not being met.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

Metrics Definition. The organization needs to be clear on the Metrics That Matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. The frequency of the plan needs to be common across the organization. If one business has a weekly planning system, and another has a monthly system, good luck!

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

Two Foxconn Technology workers died in 2016 in work-related incidents at the company’s Zhengzhou, China plant, which produces Apple iPhones. However, earlier in the year Hershey was named in a lawsuit regarding child labor abuses in Cote D’Ivoire. Despite this, Apple claims its suppliers uphold fair labor and human rights standards.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 13, 2023

China tension were some of the biggest impacts manufacturers saw these past few years. Terence: So, it’s about improving these metrics and business performance simultaneously. Terence: Please share with us what are the top current issues facing the manufacturing industry? Can you shed some light on that?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company organized an airlift of two flights per week to deliver several hundred million masks from China to France. CEVA Logistics has supported many international movements of medical supplies needed in the fight against COVID-19, using our global network and capabilities for local good. pandemic response.

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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. . Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Unfortunately, many addresses and delivery locations are difficult-to-find, if not near impossible, in emerging markets, like India and China, so delivery must go beyond the simple delivery instructions of standard delivery. Leveraging Metrics, Shippers Find Better Ways to Excel at Customer Service and Last Mile Services.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

Based in Silicon Valley, they’re fully scaled in California but have operations in China and South Korea, giving Cliff an up-close perspective on offshore manufacturing, supply chain, and more. Most recently, Cliff has developed C3Nano into an international leader in its industry with manufacturing locations in California, Korea, and China.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

Based in Silicon Valley, they’re fully scaled in California but have operations in China and South Korea, giving Cliff an up-close perspective on offshore manufacturing, supply chain, and more. Most recently, Cliff has developed C3Nano into an international leader in its industry with manufacturing locations in California, Korea, and China.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 20, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic started out as a China disruptor. For a short time global supply chain leaders just worried that their supply base in China, still called the world’s factory, will tank service levels. No small number of electronic components, as well as rare earth elements and other commodities, source only from China nowadays.

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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. China is sending out a lot more exports to the U.S. It may take weeks, by some estimates. and Europe than the other way round.

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Elementum

AUGUST 24, 2015

Monday saw a market panic unlike any in recent years, and it comes down to China's own market problems. China's Huge Losses are Seeing Global Repercussions. Both China and the United States, as of Monday, lost their 2015 growth. Copper, generally considered a good metric for the health of the global economy, is doing poorly.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 23, 2017

China’s COSCO, OOIL throw cold water over rumored deal (Reuters). JD.com chief Richard Liu sees drone delivery as the way to reach China’s rural consumers (CNBC). Consumer Convenience” will become a new supply chain metric (more on that idea in a future post). Carrier warehousing, anyone? (DC DC Velocity).

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Resilinc

JUNE 15, 2021

According to Statista, the world’s merchant container ship fleet grew from 11 million metric tons (mt) of deadweight tonnage (a measure of a vessel’s weight-carrying capacity) to 275 million mt in 2020—a 2500% increase. This regulatory trend started in Europe and the US, and has more recently taken hold in Australia, China and other regions.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 9, 2015

But this week, we’re traveling 7,000 miles from the expansive corn fields of the midwest to a more unlikely corn consumer: China. This week on the story of things, we take a look at China’s starchy dilemma—to import, or not to import? But where is China getting all its corn? and China is about to get a lot cornier.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 9, 2019

With the national warehouse vacancy rate hovering at record lows and warehouses bloated with inventory pulled in from China during 2018 to get ahead of impending tariffs, companies can combine flexible storage options with advanced technology to create an end-to-end supply chain solution that works. Tariffs and China.

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

Since the majority of raw materials were imported from China, which was the first to be impacted by the pandemic, there was a long and massive disruption in transportation links and raw materials supply. ShipBob offers a free analytics reporting tool that will let you track all the crucial supply chain metrics in one place.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While progress was indicated against key business performance metrics, investors prompted a reported 25 percent decline in the company’s stock value. Rivian Automotive Last week, Rivian Automotive reported on the fourth quarter and full year financial performance that disappointed company investors.

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