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2023 Mid-Year Check-In: Current Status of Supply Chains and What’s Next?

Logistics Viewpoints

It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. I believe our findings capture the pulse of North America logistics operations and the executives’ perceptions and priorities going into the second half of 2023.

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2023 Supply Chain Priorities, Perceptions, and Initiatives – Preliminary Results

Logistics Viewpoints

In addition, the Board asked executives what steps they were taking in response to the war in Ukraine. We approached the topic from the perspective of importance in comparison to other objectives and change in importance over time. The most frequently chosen option for CEOs was “ Focusing on making supply chains more resilient.”

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Additional May 2022 Supply Chain Indices Point to Ongoing Concerns

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights two additional May 2022 indicators of supply chain volatility as well as logistics services trending. logistics trends reinforce a shifting tide along with concerns as to what to expect in the second half of 2022. US Logistics Managers Index. Regarding the latter, the U.S.

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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

business logistics amounts to 9.1% business logistics reflects the highest percentage of GDP in history. As the baseline for comparison shifts to 2021 results, economic contraction becomes a possibility. At American Global Logistics , we understand the economic aspects of logistics. of the country's GDP or $2.3

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. Europe has seen plenty of activity in terms of mergers and acquisitions, including the take-over of the major French family-owned company Norbert Dentressangle by America’s XPO Logistics. SCM 3PL Subway 2015. United States.

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Biden Releases 1M Barrels/Day From Strategic Reserve, Shippers Hope for Results

Intelligent Audit

In President Biden’s press conference , he shared that the two primary causes of this enormous strategic oil reserves release were COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A thorough inventory of costs separated into their categories provides accessible, accurate data. Normalize data to enable apples-to-apples comparisons.

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August 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices- Declining Momentum Accelerating

Supply Chain Matters

Similarly, raw material inventories are accumulating due to the sudden and unexpected drop in production volumes.”. . Data comparisons to that of 2020 during the heights of the Covid-19 pandemic are meaningful. Excess inventory levels now remain a more cogent concern particularly among retail industry supply networks.