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Freight Market Intelligence: Data is crucial, but context is king

Freightos

In this article, Eytan Buchman, Freightos’ CMO, discusses the importance of data and context in global freight and logistics. The future of global freight data lies in real-time information, contextual insights, and aggregated data that can help companies make better decisions and adapt to a rapidly changing industry.

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What is Genuinely New in Supply Chain Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

Surprisingly, most of the goods seized did not originate in China but rather in Malaysia and Vietnam. In the case of Vietnam, it was more likely that Vietnamese companies were making apparel with cotton grown or processed into fabric in Xinjiang. to 2 days earlier.

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Another Asian Trip and Added Apple Sourcing Options

Supply Chain Matters

Visits to Vietnam , Singapore and Indonesia have featured itineraries that included meeting with governmental leaders, technology users, content providers and other groups. Vietnam Visit Cook’s Vietnam visit was headlined by local and global media as pledging to buy or produce additional product components in that country.

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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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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The data is quite extensive in terms of scope and activity levels. Locations that have benefitted from this sourcing shift are noted in the report as Vietnam and Mexico , the latter being a preferred nearshoring or friendshoring alternative. The abstract notes that the research paper “ documents that shifts in the pattern of U.S.

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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. imports from India between January and August this year, according to bill of lading figures shared by data firm Import Yeti.

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AmCham Survey Indicates China Strategic Investment is a Lesser Priority

Supply Chain Matters

Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that the company’s 60 percent sourcing of supplier manufacturing in the country was too much and industry reports pointed to stepped-up efforts to seek alternative sourcing options across Asia including India and Vietnam. Additional Thoughts Recent published data from the U.S.

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