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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

homes in 2022 than UPS, after eclipsing FedEx in 2020, and it is on track to widen the gap this year, according to internal Amazon data and people familiar with the matter. Walmart shipped one quarter of its U.S. The data shows that only 60 percent of its shipments came from China during the same period, down from 80 percent in 2018.

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The Dangers of Single Sourcing in Your Supply Chain

Resilinc

The benefits of reshoring include more control over the supply chain, lower shipping costs, and increased adaptability to market changes. Key countries that businesses are moving to include India, Thailand, and Vietnam. For example, companies like Apple, General Electric, and Ford have moved some manufacturing back to the US.

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Innovative Approaches to Supply Chain Risk

Kinaxis

This scenario played out for thousands of companies after the Japan earthquake, the Thailand floods and numerous other smaller scale disasters. There has been a huge increase in the amount of data available, both numeric and unstructured. How do you cut through the noise and find data that is relevant? Think again.

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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Logistics Viewpoints

The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86 A virus in China disrupts auto manufacturing in Detroit , or a flood in Thailand takes out a cluster of research and production facilities. Utilize a TMS That provides real-time data to remain agile. Many companies rely on data that may lag several days.

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Global Wide Manufacturing Output Strengthens in March 2024

Supply Chain Matters

along with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. Commenting on the March data, Timothy Fiore, Chair of ISM’s Manufacturing Business Survey Committee indicated in-part: “ Demand remains at the early stages of recovery, with clear signs of improving conditions. From our lens, the data points to India. reflecting a 1.3 an increase of 2.5

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Global Production Levels Falling At the End of 2023

Supply Chain Matters

However, the data indicates that spending is clearly being influenced by product promotions and discounting. Commenting on the 2023 data and the outlook for the EU manufacturing sector in 2024, Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia, Chief Economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank , indicated in-part: “ The destocking process is showing no signs of letting up.

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Cutting Emissions Through Better Transportation Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, if they buy a component for their hardware products in Thailand, they have an estimate for the logistics emissions associated with the component. But Oracle may not know whether there were delays causing a product to be shipped to them by air rather than by ocean or in a container that is not 100% full. “We