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. . This index was reported as 1.84 reported for June, and 2.59

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The two recent crises in global trade – the outbreak and the US-China trade war – show how vulnerable small and medium size businesses (SMBs) can be to shocks to the supply chain, but also point to ways to mitigate that risk. The (Digital) Rise of SMBs. Coronavirus Impact. million freight containers each year.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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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. In order to achieve this target, CEVA Logistics is incorporating environmental considerations in a variety of areas of operations, from warehousing to transportation and procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight quantitative data related to global and regional supply chain production activity levels in May 2022, as depicted by the reported PMI indices. Key reported findings point to output declines, lackluster new order inflows and international trade volume declines. reported for April.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Currently, companies struggle with rolling electric outages in China. These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. In contrast, finance flexes inventory up and down in less mature organizations to manipulate cash flow for either investor reporting or bonus incentives.

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QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Even as industries start to recover from the effects of the pandemic, significant issues remain: Ongoing work stoppages in China due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Supplier visibility provides analytics and insights to inform your strategy. Global supply chains are suffering from what a recent research article from J.P. Potential U.S.

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For fashion companies, for example, supply chain traceability solutions document the chain of custody of your goods and inputs from the cotton source to the importer of record. They want to be confident that they are not hurting the environment or supporting unfair labor practices with their purchases. Import Status.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a further installment in our global supply chain assessment in the highlights on reported December 2023, Q3-2023, and full year global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. With the December 2023 report, global PMI levels have remained below the 50.0 The reported December value of 47.9

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Resilinc’s Rick Freeman weighs in on the future opportunities for high-tech and semiconductor companies Despite the stabilization of the high-tech and semiconductor supply chain, the industry still faces pressure due to ongoing import/export restrictions and changing regulations governing semiconductor production and sourcing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

This January the company reported that its annual recurring revenue grew at over 84% year-over-year. And the models themselves were often not detailed enough to create a digital twin that represented how a company actually operated. There’s a lot of flexibility required to model the variations and nuances.”

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. Data source: eMarketer. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Reuters reported that several suppliers to Tesla and Apple suspended production for four to six days because of the crisis. Geopolitical conflict with Australia—source of 10% of China’s coal imports—have contributed to the coal shortage. But China is the top concern for supply chain managers. year-on-year in August.

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Pivot88

APRIL 17, 2017

For many years, many strategic sourcing and procurement professionals have been using the cost reduction playbook as a guide for all of their sourcing and procurement activities. THE GAME CHANGER…VALUE PROCUREMENT. Procurement officers are under pressure to deliver value added performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. But even here, Mr. Barraco explains, there is a difference between accidentally shipping goods to bad actors and “intentional violators.” This results in detention costs and delays in producing goods and delivering them to customers.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Global parcel logistics and transportation carrier FedEx reported fiscal Q2 quarterly financial performance this week with the implications continuing to resound across traditional and online E-commerce business circles. Total quarterly revenues of $22.8 Reportedly, total average daily package volumes declined 10.2

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

With so many having to work from home during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, consumers upped their purchases of in-home fitness equipment. The supply chain supporting the delivery of equipment is the de-facto facilitator of this business model. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. Container shipping prices skyrocket. New aircraft purchases are focused around twinjets such as the Boeing 767 and 777.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Developing end-to-end supply chain management software, Gravity optimizes operations, mitigates risk, and controls costs. Clients can get precise evidence about maritime traffic, including the exact location of a ship carrying what they need and when it will get to where they need it to be. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86

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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. China’s impermanence.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Carrier rates are declining across the board, and Seatrade Maritime News reported an “expected trough of freight rates to mid-2023 from 2024 with a lower demand forecast and a higher than expected effective capacity increase due to the unwinding of congestion. Container shipping to hit bottom in mid-2023, forecasts HSBC. <[link].

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Since 1990, the size of ships increased 3X, but the design of the west coast ports remained largely unchanged.

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SupplyShift

APRIL 27, 2021

On April 21st, our webinar on forced labor in cotton supply chains brought together leaders from Responsible Sourcing Network and Fashion for Good to explore how industry-wide tools and supply chain engagement can help identify and mitigate risks of forced labor. . On the YESS Cotton Sourcing Risk Assessment.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. Through collaboration with your procurement partner, you can reduce inventory levels and then potentially downsize your warehouse capacity needs.

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Locus

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Known to have first been celebrated in universities in the 1990s by single men, Singles’ Awareness Day has grown immensely popular with unmarried people all over China treating themselves to presents. The typical 24-hour online sale was extended to 11 days, reporting about 200,000,000 global transactions.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. Many countries have closed shops for non-essential and discretionary purchases, and even where they are open, consumers may be cautious about venturing to the high street, preferring to shop online. To further reduce costs, many buyers rely on just one supplier for certain categories of spend.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2016

The projections are from BTS’ and FHWA’s latest version of the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) , “which integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.”. trillion in 2015).

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Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2022

An example of supply chain resilience A basic example of supply chain resilience is building in redundancy through dual sourcing: having an alternative supplier for important parts or ingredients. Their Head of Supply Chain, Daniel Bull-Clearie, initially sourced their raw product entirely from their own coastal farm.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And the threat of “rain” is a complex one, ranging from port closures and materials shortages to tariffs, natural disasters, and blocked shipping lanes. You can’t simply look up at the sky, assessing the cloud cover. Unfortunately, supply-side risk is a fact of life in 2022.

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Elementum

JULY 6, 2022

Executive Summary In Part One of this blog series we ’ re going to discuss the phenomenon that seems to be at the center of every economic advisor’s latest report: recession. The procurement team orders those goods — and as the supplies arrive, the manufacturing team builds the product.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

According to a report from The Information , the company is imposing this fee on returns when return options at Whole Foods, Kohl’s, or Amazon Fresh locations are closer or at the same distance as a UPS Store return location. Previously, customers could drop off non-defective or undamaged items at UPS Stores without any cost.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Analytics is key. I disagree.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items. Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune.

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Elementum

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, one month shy of its expected launch in September, reports claim that Apple is facing production issues regarding the iPhone 8 and its release could be delayed by three to four weeks. Industry sources also said that iPhone shipments are being held back by supply of OLED panels and yield rates at assembly as output of the 5.8-inch

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SupplyShift

APRIL 27, 2021

On April 21st, our webinar on forced labor in cotton supply chains brought together leaders from Responsible Sourcing Network and Fashion for Good to explore how industry-wide tools and supply chain engagement can help identify and mitigate risks of forced labor. These are the textile and spinning mills.

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