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Supply Chain Risk Management: Risks of Relocating a Business ‘China to Vietnam’

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Japan’s Nintendo also pulled out some of the portion of its video game production from China to Vietnam because of the ongoing trade wars. According to Global Edge, this does happens in Vietnam. Vietnam’s risk assessment of their weaknesses is the shortcomings in the business climate led by concerns surrounding data transparency.

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Has China lost its relevance as a production location?

Supply Chain Movement

This is still very favourable in comparison with wages within the EU, and wages have increased more significantly in other nearby countries, such as Vietnam and Bangladesh to name but a few. When I started doing business in China back in 2004, a general factory worker used to earn around RMB2,600 a month.

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Nestle Incorporates Warehouse Logistics to Improve Coffee Supply Chain

RFgen

Recognizing a need to improve the efficiency of its global supply chain, Nestle recently announced that it is building a new storage and shipment facility in Vietnam. Bloomberg reported that Vietnam is one of the top coffee growing countries in the world , and more robusta coffee beans come from there than from anywhere else.

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Nestle Incorporates Warehouse Logistics to Improve Coffee Supply Chain

RFgen

Recognizing a need to improve the efficiency of its global supply chain, Nestle recently announced that it is building a new storage and shipment facility in Vietnam. Bloomberg reported that Vietnam is one of the top coffee growing countries in the world , and more robusta coffee beans come from there than from anywhere else.

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Conquering the world with shoes

Cathy Roberson

The top three exporters to the US were China, 61.2%, Vietnam, 24.3%, and Indonesia, 5.2%. In comparison to the same period in 2019, volumes are down 40.8% Imports According to the Footwear Distributors and Retailers America Association, 99% of all footwear sold in the US are imported. In 2020, 1.9 I say ‘only’ 11.1%

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September and Q3 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Enter Contraction Trending

Supply Chain Matters

Among the six countries that our research arm monitors in the Developing Economies category ( China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand ) the average PMI value for Q3 was 52.1, Contraction comparisons to that of 2020 during the heights of the Covid-19 pandemic are meaningful. percentage points above the Q2 value, and 0.7

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2023 Truckload Freight Market Report

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

As you review these numbers, keep in mind populations and markets are markedly smaller in comparison, therefore some of these shortages are much more problematic! Demand for trucks and fuel being burned in comparison to gasoline demand is most likely the root cause of this adjustment.

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