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Extreme weather’s impact on supply chains

Resilinc

The disruption has cut off a major trade route for Canada’s exports of minerals, wood fiber, food products, and other products to Asia, and it has created a supply chain nightmare for Canadian manufacturers. “We Then the drought eased in June, only to be followed by extreme rains, flooding, and landslides.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The proliferation of products and capabilities is exponential with over 60% of capacity in Taiwan. Today, we have an additional factor with inflation to add to the mix of issues, that changes the requirements for the “buy plan in procurement.” A chip is not a chip and a foundry is not a foundry.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs. Mondelez Performance Against the Food Group for 2010-2019. The reason? Assa Abloy AB, BorgWarner Inc.,

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“Too Big to Fail”: 10 Things you Need to Know About El Niño

Elementum

A shorter monsoon season in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia will help miners procure more materials, used heavily in the electronics industry. But the typhoons will threaten Taiwan, China, and Japan, leaving countries like Indonesia in need of precipitation. Food prices will likely skyrocket.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up- August 17 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In our recent Supply Chain Matters highlights of July’s global PMI indices , there was a consistent theme of declining mo mentum, especially involving most manufacturing regions of Asia, including Taiwan. Conversely, the indexes for final demand foods and for final demand goods less foods and energy rose 1.0 percent and 0.2

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

ToolsGroup

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the company that makes the majority of latest-generation chips for Apple products, has committed to increasing capacity by spending $100 billion across the next three years, and building new factories in Arizona and Japan. IDC via IEEE Spectrum). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ).

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

Penske customers in the manufacturing, food and beverage sectors stand to benefit from the digitization of the supply chain and logistics processes, improvements in order accuracy and better tracking of physical assets. In 2017, the company opened a new distribution center in Indiana to accommodate rapid growth.