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September and Q3 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Enter Contraction Trending

Supply Chain Matters

The orders-to-inventory ratio fell to another multi-year low last month as excess capacity continued to build at factories. Ireland stood out as the only EU nation to record an expansionary PMI with a value of 51.5. Contraction comparisons to that of 2020 during the heights of the Covid-19 pandemic are meaningful. up from a 47.3

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, in June 2021, Washington Prime Group, a shopping mall real estate company that owns 102 locations around the US filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, leaving space for e-commerce firms to potentially move their inventory and fulfillment operations in.

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Sustainability Certifications for SMEs: The Best Programmes

Unleashed

A benchmark baseline will establish fair and standardised testing and comparisons. Sustainability is a characteristic of lean manufacturing through waste reduction and improved inventory control. The Tourism Business Scheme is the national sustainable tourism certification scheme for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

The 2015 Annual Third Party Logistics Study also reveals that both sides regard themselves as being successful, and shippers are seeing positive results again this year: an average logistics cost reduction of 9%, an average inventory cost reduction of 5% and an average fixed logistics cost reduction of 15%. Guinea-bissau. Isle of Man.