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Global PMI Levels in August Remain Sluggish

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights perspectives and added insights on reported August 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. The August numbers once again signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions as output and new order rates continue to fall. reflecting a 0.8

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

That has been changing rapidly, not least due to the recruitment of Arts to shape the supply chain centralisation process. Anita Arts, vice president of global supply chain at Liberty Global (UPC). ‘A A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower’. By Caroline Linssen.

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Jeroen van Weesep: ‘Make more room for intuition and trust’

Supply Chain Movement

As Vice President Supply and Inventory Planning Europe and Asia, Jeroen van Weesep is helping to safeguard and sustain that transition in the supply chain. In June of this year, he was voted Supply Chain Professional 2014. Read the full article in Supply Chain Movement 15. By Caroline Linssen.

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. Demand uncertainty does make it much more difficult for a supply chain to respond to customers’ orders.

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Apple Supplier Foxconn Had Stated Concerns Related to China’s Covid Measures

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters updates readers on two other published reports that provide backdrop to the ongoing impacts that China ’s zero tolerance Covid policies have had on Foxconn and Apple , two rather influential enterprises. . © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

These developments impact Original Equipment Manufacturers, both at strategic level and at operational level within their supply chains. Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Czech Republic. Dominican Republic. Challenges for high-tech supply chain.

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Gartner’s Women in Supply Chain Survey 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Gartner’s first Women in Supply Chain Survey, conducted with AWESOME, an executive women’s leadership group, compares the representation of women in supply chain leadership roles. It also identifies practices that are increasing the engagement with and success of women in supply chain organizations.