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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, according to industry watchers. The container crisis affects all companies that need to ship goods. KEY POINTS.

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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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Risk Management in Global Ocean Context

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape. We can observe this quite clearly in the growth experienced in countries like Vietnam, India as well as Hungary and Mexico.

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One belt, one road, and one very blurry supply chain benefit

DELMIA Quintiq

There was just not enough products being shipped back and forth. For example, should Chinese investment in the ports of Karachi and Pireus qualify as elements of the “One Road” strategy, or are they great commercial opportunities snapped up from sovereign owners at a bargain? In the short-term, not much.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

A good example is Mar-Bal Inc., Headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, it has multiple local plants, as well as facilities in China, Hungary, and Mexico. Real-time production monitoring is usually held out as an example of the ultimate in manufacturing control. a leading manufacturer headquartered near Cleveland, OH.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series III: Andrew Olah – Changing the Denim Industry One Brand at a Time

NC State SCRC

was started by his father, who was a refugee from Hungary in 1956 He moved to Toronto, Canada, and met another individual from Czechoslovakia, and the two formed a partnership to create a textile agency. For example, China, India, the US, and Pakistan (in that order) are the biggest suppliers of cotton, a critical component in jeans.