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JUNE 10, 2025

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

Reported May 20 Let me take a moment to comment on our global sourcing strategy. Today, more than 50% of our purchases are sourced in the United States. During that period, the vast majority of our supplier partners developed diversified sourcing strategies across several countries, including the United States.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Europe Face Hurdles to Cut China Reliance for Rare Earths FedEx to Cut Management Jobs by More Than 10%, CEO Says Lawmakers Seek to Curb U.S. trade negotiations with China. trade negotiations with China. “We We can see transparently it’s an issue and we can navigate it,” Keogh said. Reliance on China for Rare Earths Bloomberg U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 8, 2025

Brent Kirby – President Given the uncertainties surrounding current trade deliberations, we would not anticipate significant country of origin changes in our sourcing in the near term. As an example, in 2025, we will be relocating production of 500 toy SKUs from China to other sourcing locations. tariffs were enacted.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2015

XPO intends to use the acquired operations as a platform to grow its business in Europe. Norbert Dentressangle’s Red Online service leads the €5 billion outsourced e-fulfillment market in Europe, with €242 million revenue in 2014 and 31% organic growth. It serves both B2B and B2C customers in the United Kingdom, Spain and France.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 25, 2020

With less transportation capacity, carriers are forced to hike shipping costs, and airfreight rates from China to Europe were already up 253% YOY in April. There’s also the issue of sourcing , as companies consider nearshoring and reshoring and requalify and re-assess their suppliers and sub-suppliers.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 23, 2020

From source materials to distribution, the supply network must be carefully streamlined to produce the best results possible. Once the supply and distribution routes are mapped, clients can begin the sourcing process to dig deeper and understand what each third-party logistics provider can offer. RFQ, Contract, and Risk.

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

Inventory management and replenishment as well as reverse logistics can now be managed by mobile as well as payments. According to Ti’s white paper on the topic, some goods manufactured in Asia-Pacific could be near-sourced to the US or Europe. Marketplaces such as Alibaba’s Tmall, caters to suppliers and manufacturers.

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

and more than 2 billion in Europe.” They’re a dual sourcer, and they have diverted some volume, and I suspect they’ll stay dual sourcing.” Catch me at the Reverse Logistics Association’s conference and the week after that at the Aircargo Conference. Heading to Las Vegas next week?

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RFgen

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Zebra Warehousing Vision Study highlights the growing investment in reverse logistics and item-level shipping by 78% of manufacturers. Furthermore, the Zebra Warehousing Vision Study projects a 26% increase in average warehouse size in Europe by 2024, indicating the growth of regional supply hubs.

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Proxima

JANUARY 29, 2021

Retail supply chains are set to face another year of challenges in 2021, with uncertainty around bricks and mortar trading, a surging demand for ecommerce and the need to grapple with new legislative barriers arising from Brexit, in Europe. This has spelt a crisis for UK-EU border disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

The company has a global workforce with customers across North America , Europe , and Asia , along with a leadership team that is 57 percent female. Returns are in-turn routed through a reverse logistics facility for optimal recovery, helping retailers ensure the accuracy and speed of the return, as well as potentially reducing waste.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Velocity is imperative : Supply chain distances and times have increased a great deal (more in some corners of the world than others), and so have the challenges involved in getting fresh produce from source to destination before spoilage renders it unsalable. Sanitary practices must be maintained from source to shelf.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Steel is at the beginning of the value chain, so you create a lot of instability for all these supply chains that get disrupted that now all of a sudden have to deal with much more expensive steel,” Henne told the Guardian : She said Europe must intervene to save the sector, because it is fundamental to military security and is a large employer.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

CEVA Logistics (The Americas). CEVA Logistics provides both freight management and contract logistics services for a range of customers across all sectors. Total Quality Logistics. Coyote Logistics. Media Caption. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. Media Type.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

And with less manufacturing output there were fewer container ships leaving Asia full of goods meaning activity in ports in North America and Europe would slow down rather quickly. Shortly thereafter the tsunami of infections overtook Europe. A natural starting point is the level of single, or sole sourcing, that is put in place.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 18, 2025

From a tariff perspective, our exposure to incremental costs is limited to approximately 20% of our cost of goods sold, including approximately 10% of cost of goods tied to China and the rest mainly coming from Western Europe. Our merchants, sourcing team, and suppliers are being creative. 😉 Thanks!

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Let’s not forget, the need to stay on top of the latest news from reputable sources will be important as well. ” Helen of Troy CEO, Noel Geoffroy “Today, we source products from seven different countries. In Alcoa's case, we could reroute supply from our Canadian smelters to Europe. And with the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

But one source mentioned the unlucky nature of the number “13” is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. Once completed, the deal will allow Blue Yonder’s suite of supply chain management and commerce offerings to expand with final mile, returns management, and reverse logistics solutions.

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