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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. There will be no emails or spreadsheets. Conclusion.

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Relatively Cautious Global Production and Supply Chain Indices for February 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Optimism is reflected in United States , Eurozone and select Asia data and the traditional Lunar New Year holiday period does not appear to have dampened Asia based production levels for February. Indices reflecting manufacturing across the United States were generally positive. Federal Bank of New York.

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Are You Prepared for a Climate-Change Charged Hurricane Season?

Enterra Insights

The 2020 one brought a record 30 named storms to the North Atlantic, including 12 that hit the United States, causing some $40 billion in damage. ”[5] Rice reports, “Meteorologists from Colorado State University, among the nation’s top hurricane forecasters, predicted nine hurricanes would form this year.”

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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. Trucking disruptions in these areas threaten the flow of inbound and outbound inventory. . Because of this, both Inventory Costs (91.0) Global Shipping.

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8 Inventory Costing Methods That You Might Not Know About

EMERGE App

Inventory costing or valuation is an accounting concept that has a direct impact on your gross profit and thus taxable income. Methods of valuing inventory are simply different cost-flow assumptions about how to allocate your cost of goods available for sale. We’ll start by explaining why inventory costing is important.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. Zachary said.

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Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky

TMC

Companies can then prioritize their mitigation efforts based on parameters such as value-at-risk, customer importance, and field inventory. Walgreens uses in-store sensors to monitor each of its 8,300 locations in the United States. The raw data flows to Walgreens’ Centralized Security Operations Center.

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