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2021 Manufacturing Trends Revealed by the Pandemic

QAD

In food product packaging, for example, we’re already seeing an uptick in sustainable packaging with a reduced environmental impact. QAD frequently publishes guides to international business by country, such as South Africa, Germany, India and many others; see Doing Business in South Korea. . And more disruption.

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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

In a highly inspiring key note presentation at the supply chain conference, Fareed Zakaria of CNN spoke about how the jobs recovery following the 2008 recession lagged the economic recovery by as much as 64 months while the same metric for the previous recessions was significantly narrower.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

81% of semiconductor contract manufacturing was based in Taiwan or South Korea in 2020 ( Deloitte Global ), but The United States passed a $52 billion dollar Chips for America Act in an effort to bring the manufacturing of microchips back to the United States. Wall Street Journal ). Deloitte Global). Wall Street Journal ). Deloitte ).

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue: JP¥ 1,829 billion/ $16.5

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. We need to get past all the red tape and into the hands of all global manufacturing operations professionals now, especially those looking to ramp up ventilators, medicine, masks, food, and testing production.

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. We need to get past all the red tape and into the hands of all global manufacturing operations professionals now, especially those looking to ramp up ventilators, medicine, masks, food, and testing production.