Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Both The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are reporting that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) , the globe’s leading advanced semiconductor device manufacturer, is considering investment in a second U.S. With semiconductor sourcing capability being viewed as “the new oil” in geo-political trade the dynamics are ever changing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I am a proponent of dual sourcing. The vulnerabilities with sole sourcing are very real. Just-in-time Supply Chains have long been the envy of companies and industries of all kinds. Single points of failure invariably lead to problems and cost more in the long run than dual sourcing solutions. Whereas the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The above seems to imply, from our lens, the movement toward China Plus sourcing activity.

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 25, 2014

No company has ‘truly’ modeled the full relationship set between how companies interact with other companies upstream and downstream in the supply chain. Some of the largest companies in the world struggle to maintain accurate master data about their suppliers.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Procurement sourcing and tail spend solutions provider Fairmarkit announced the completion of a $35.6 Co-founded in 2017 by CEO Kevin Frechette, COO Tarek Alaruri, and CTO Victor Kushch, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and has offices in New York and Poland. Fastest-growing private companies.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On a regional basis, Europe reportedly remained a principal drag on global factory output, along with contracting output in Japan and the United Kingdom. Companies are still managing outputs appropriately as order softness continues. Commenting on the November data, Bennett Parrish, Global Economist at J.P. declined 0.4

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AFFLINK

OCTOBER 8, 2020

95% of companies saw supply chain lead times more than double. When there’s even a small disruption, companies that maintain minimal inventory levels to reduce holding costs or are dependent on always using the lowest-cost providers are most at risk. Larger companies have started diversifying more than ever.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

The company’s integration partners include Element Logic , one of Europe ’s intralogistics companies; and Okamura , a Japan based provider of high-quality products and services for offices, education, commercial facilities and distribution centers. JAGGAER Finalizes Added Strategic Partnership.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

front that retailers and certain businesses may have procured too much inventory , and now that these inventories have arrived, the challenge will be not to exposed to a decline in consumer buying activity in the months to come. This month, the Economist Intelligence Unit revised its forecast of the overall U.S. inflation rate to be 9.2

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Freight Companies Scramble to Reroute Goods in Wake of Harvey (WSJ – sub. Robinson acquires Milgram & Company. LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. The least impacted companies will be those that have been (among other things)…. Convey Closes $8.25

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2022

In our prior commentaries related to supply network strategic sourcing, we, along with many others, have noted that the ongoing global-wide shortage of semiconductor devices needed for automotive, high-tech electronics and other industries have been elevated to strategic geo-political policy dimensions. Supply Chain Matters Perspectives.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

This latest development will exacerbate the situation for companies in many industries, particularly those which are heavily reliant on energy resources. Even companies without a direct supplier connection in Russia or Ukraine will experience debilitating disruption across industries from energy to agriculture.

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Proxima

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Many things are currently making procurement prominent, but not all of them will have a longer-term impact. Procurement does not operate in a business vacuum. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ? Yogi Berra. You are mortal. The lazy route of predicting takes trends visible today and extrapolates.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Companies need to be fully aware of global climate change conversations and how they will impact their supply chain in the near future. It currently has no limits on truck emissions, unlike other countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Canada, which already have truck fuel efficiency standards.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights reports of a cyber-attack incident impacting a supplier to Toyota Motor and resulting in a one-day suspension of the automakers manufacturing operations across Japan. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2023

Likewise, Japan has been addressing added domestic investments in advanced semiconductor materials and components. One prominent area has been that of semiconductor design, fabrication, and assembly needed to support deemed strategic domestic industries and national defense needs. based fabrication capabilities.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

New iPhone Lineup As widely expected, the company unveiled a new Apple iPhone15 line-up that includes four models : iPhone15 , iPhone 15 plus , iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max as the top model. restrictions on companies selling advanced technology to China’s high tech companies. market for the new iPhone lineup.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With government trade policies favoring more domestic sourcing of deemed strategic supply networks such as semiconductor devices, there are already indications across the U.S. The Japan based labor union representing production workers at Toyota Motor are reportedly seeking the equivalent of a 7.6 based production facilities.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As the tsunami that devastated parts of Japan in 2011 and dislocated supply chains worldwide underlined, companies need to be better prepared to respond to a widening array of potential disruptions. But persuading managers, and notably procurement professionals, to build supply chain risk into their decisions can be an uphill battle.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Apple Component Design Shift in Custom Displays Citing sources with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg reported ( Paid subscription or metered view ) that Apple has plans to begin utilizing custom electronic displays utilizing its own custom in-house development designs. companies was $14.7 million in 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Further indicated were signs of weakness occurring in China , Japan , Malaysia, South Korea , Taiwan and Vietnam. Source: S&P Global and Other Sources. Report authors noted that sector data of new orders indicated that contraction occurred across consumer, intermediate and investment goods industries. declined 1.3

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The company is growing so fast it’s virtually flying and the supply chain is running on a wing and a prayer. It’s been dubbed the posh pound store in the UK and the Danish company is certainly bringing style to discount shopping across Europe. I also joined because I like its special company culture.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The regions reported as having the most declines in production volumes were noted as Brazil, Canada, Japan , and the United Kingdom. Firms reportedly attributed the upturn in production to companies increasing workforce and capacity. companies according to new survey data from the U.S.-China The September value of 49.8

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

Their early 2018 competition assessment noted that “companies that provide fulfillment and logistics services for themselves” are competition. Source: Amazon.com. However, logistics positions at Lab126 are far and few between, at just 1% of the open jobs there (compared to a baseline company rate of 5%).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Based in the USA and later North Asia, I specialized in “Supply Chain Solutions” for North American / European Corporations with Asia Pacific manufacturing/sourcing operations”. “My This year, we were recognized by Corporate Knights as the world’s most sustainable company. Prior to that, I was with TNT for 6 years.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Fiore, Chair of the ISM Business Survey Committee indicated in part: “ Following four straight months of panelists’ companies reporting softening new orders rates, the September index reading reflects companies adjusting to potential lower demand.”. Japan, Taiwan ) the average PMI value for Q3 was 49.0, up from a value of 53.7

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2018

Michaels says the company is essentially working its way through the aircraft, assessing each component by three parameters: Is it strategic technology that Boeing should take control of? Europe and Japan. “It’s bigger than what many people realize,” says Kevin Michaels, managing director of the consulting firm AeroDynamic Advisory.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

This report’s byline begins: “ Increasingly, (however), under a weighty combination of commercial and political pressure, foreign companies are beginning to pluck up the courage if not to leave China entirely, then at least look beyond it for growth.” billion in population will be the linchpin of an alternative sourced Asian supply network.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

75% of companies felt negative or strongly negative impacts on their business due to supply chain disruption ( Accenture ). It is estimated supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages affect 4% of inventory for some large companies, and 40% of inventory for smaller companies. Source: Consultancy.UK. Reuters ).

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Resilinc

MAY 31, 2022

Electrical machinery and electronics is Malaysia’s largest export category, and the nation of 33 million people is an important source of assembly, test, and packaging (ATP) for the semiconductor industry. And that was just the latest enforcement action by CBP against Malaysia exporters. The UK, EU and U.S.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 21, 2020

JAGGAER’s Amenallah Reghimi and Mic h ael Roesch recently partnered with Philip Ideson , founder and managing directo r at Art of Procurement , to bring procurement professionals a presentation on response tactics for the current global crisis. I think this will also help procurement teams learn to be agile.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

What practices does your company hang on to that are old hat? Are those strategies costing your company money, time, and even market share? Diversify your supplier base Single sourcing presents a huge risk for companies in all industries, especially as geopolitical disruptions are on the rise.

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LevaData

MARCH 30, 2022

Companies are seeing massive component shortages. They have been in an ongoing firefighting mode with new shortages occurring every few days; Covid, the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and the recent earthquake in Japan are just a few top-of-mind examples. Some lead times have shot up very quickly, leaving companies unprepared.

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Precoro

JUNE 21, 2023

Around the world, governments and regulatory bodies have established guidelines for companies’ accounting departments to follow when it comes to bookkeeping. Let’s take a look at how following standardized guidelines can benefit companies and, specifically, their AP departments. What is GAAP?

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Rick Freeman joined Resilinc in July after more than a dozen years in procurement and supply chain for semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology. At Micron, Freeman developed and managed the company’s robust supply chain risk management strategy and programs, which uses Resilinc’s suite of tools and solutions.

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ThroughPut

MAY 31, 2022

Manufacturing network diversification: The US-China trade war has forced many businesses to consider diversifying their sourcing and manufacturing bases. Diversification can be achieved by working either with additional suppliers, or with existing sole suppliers that can procure from multiple locations.

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