Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with December 2024, Q4-2024 , and year-end global supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI reporting. At the end of 2024, global manufacturing activity levels remained at a state of contraction amid international trade volume declines. value in November.

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Resilinc

MAY 23, 2025

Discover how Resilincs agentic supply chain risk management is transforming disruption response with AI-powered supply chain risk solutions built for speed, scale, and compliance. What modern supply chains need isnt just more datathey need intelligent action. What is agentic AIand why now?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an edition of are news capsule update, namely an update on previous developments or commentaries that we have featured on this blog. and one in France, along with certain production lines in Belfast, Northern Island , each of which support Airbus aircraft structures supply needs.

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EFT

MAY 26, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists What's at stake as Trump's tariffs threaten EU exports U.S. billion in its India unit, the company said in a filing, as the iPhone maker shifts more manufacturing out of tariff-hit China. Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1.5 TW) will invest $1.5

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Over those five years, the CCU’s global reach has expanded from operating in just two countries initially to 12 countries today, including the US, China, France, India, and the UK. Construction is soft, manufacturing is up and down, and consumers are cautious.” Amazon Stopping Fake Goods. May Freght is Flat, ATA Says.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 23, 2025

A year ago, we published a checklist naming eight procurement challenges manufacturing companies would face in 2024. What will that mean for procurement in the manufacturing sector? The impact on European manufacturing Lets begin with Europe. US tariffs could hardly come at a worse time for Europes manufacturing powerhouse!

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EFT

MAY 12, 2025

economy, bring home manufacturing jobs, raise tax revenues and provide America leverage to renegotiate security deals with its allies. India File: Picking the right fights in manufacturing As global supply chains start to break apart and reassemble under new tariff realities, could India set itself up to be among the winners?

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EFT

JUNE 16, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists US ocean container imports tumble in May as China tariffs take hold U.S. year-over-year in May, the sharpest decline since the pandemic, as President Donald Trump's 145% tariffs took hold, supply chain technology provider Descartes (DSG.TO) said on Monday.

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EFT

MAY 19, 2025

France's CMA CGM to redeploy fleet to avoid U.S. bookings for container transport from China to the United States spiked almost 300% in the wake of the United States and China pausing punishing tit-for-tat tariffs, container-tracking software provider Vizion said on Wednesday. China trade tensions.

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EFT

JULY 7, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists Inside the airline seat industry crisis delaying jet deliveries Tucked beneath the armrest of a luxury business class seat in a factory in Wales lies a clue to a global aviation bottleneck that has left many airlines waiting impatiently for new jets.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog provides summary themes of our soon to published 2025 annual predictions for industry and global supply chains. The Eurozone continues to undergo sequential months of manufacturing sector contraction.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 25, 2025

Several services were scrapped and delayed in both directions on the morning of June 25, Eurostar said in a statement. Journeys were also delayed and canceled on June 24, after there were two fatalities on the high-speed line between Lille and Paris, Eurostar said in a post on X.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kearney research shows that the more companies invest, the bigger the average ROI Investments in supply chain firms and technologies represent 15-20% of total venture capital investments, according to a recent report by the management consulting firm Kearney. billion in 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. We define the market as those warehouse automation providers responsible for delivery of the system to the end-user (to eliminate double-counting). Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 billion in 2019.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2024

For the athletes to beat all odds over 329 events across 32 sports, the organizers had to navigate a significantly challenging global supply chain to successfully host this year’s games. Reducing reliance on single suppliers and diversifying supply sources can mitigate the impact of disruptions in specific regions or industries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Oracle’s recent global survey, No Planet B: How Can Businesses and Technology Help Save the World? Complexities integrating data from across global supply chains. Start with your supply chain. These responses illustrate that supply chain sustainability is top of mind for many companies.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Trane Technologies faces these unprecedented global challenges with a bold strategy and a commitment to building a healthier planet and a sustainable world. “ Trane Technologies is developing shop floor digital twins to optimize all manufacturing process development.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has been around in one shape or form for a while. In fact, recently, while on a weekend ski trip with friends, my buddy John was riding the chairlift with two women from France […]. The post 3D Printing and the Supply Chain appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

The supply chain industry is on a years-long digital transformation journey, and one of the key objectives that industry leaders almost universally aim to achieve is true end-to-end (E2E) visibility across their complex global networks of suppliers, partners and customers. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, and L’Oréal’s approach to business that has allowed the company to continuously rank as a Supply Chains to Admire winner for four consecutive years. Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

Demand for supply chain software in Europe is notably strong in the otherwise slowly recovering economy. A growing number of companies are implementing software for sales & operations planning (S&OP) and supply chain visibility. There have also been several acquisitions in the software market.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ToolsGroup supply chain planning software enables Melitta Sales Europe to centralize demand planning and improve S&OP and promotions management. At MSE headquarters based in Minden, Germany, the supply chain team wanted to streamline processes and use company resources more sustainably.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives by Luc Kremers , Vice President – Asia Pacific, BCI Global Reshoring is accelerating as American and European companies want to de-risk their supply chains from geopolitical developments and supply chain disruptions.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Next generation supply chains: The inside story. Discover how to reap the rewards of a next generation supply chain without provoking resistance. Optimization or automation: Which do you need? It’s easy to confuse automation with optimization. Automation is too simple and will not give you great results.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

ToolsGroup will support Emma’s goal of creating a resilient, intelligent supply chain process to fuel the company’s growth. However, this speed of expansion made Emma’s supply chain planning process considerably more difficult. The first stage of the rollout is France and Germany and will expand globally.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 22, 2020

All eyes are on Asia again as it stands at the forefront of the next challenge for Supply Chains – to accelerate into recovery and rebound stronger, most likely in different ways. In this regard, B2G Consulting, has shared their thoughts on how the future of supply chain will look like post COVID. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The pandemic halted many supply chains last year, closing factories and stores, and limiting manufacturing and distribution operations. Construction of manufacturing plants and new warehouse sites were also postponed or canceled entirely due to market uncertainty. Worker safety and efficiency is also crucial.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

The reality is that the Smiley Company, which is celebrating its 50 th birthday this year, created smiley as a symbol for good news in the newspaper France Soir in 1972. Chipotle’s push for humane chicken delayed amid tight supplies. Mexican factories gain in supply chain revamps. It was a classic piece of movie fiction.

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Logility

JUNE 8, 2022

ATLANTA (June 8, 2022) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year, and software license revenues were up 153% to $3.1 For the Supply Chain business, professional services revenues for the quarter ended April 30, 2022 increased by 11% to $6.0 a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2022

ATLANTA (August 24, 2022) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year, and software license revenues were $0.3 For the Supply Chain business, professional services revenues for the quarter ended July 31, 2022 increased by 8% to $5.2 Sears Manufacturing Co., Company and Technology.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 29, 2014

In this series on global fashion retail we have discussed about network design and inventory location in Chapter 1, stores replenishment in Chapter 2 and sourcing and manufacturing lead times in Chapter 3. Written by Dr. John Gattorna (UTS University of Technology, Sydney) & Xavier Farrés (Miebach Consulting).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full-to-bursting warehouses means fewer orders for manufacturers, which translates into lower levels of business activity and, ultimately, weaker growth. Full-to-bursting warehouses means fewer orders for manufacturers, which translates into lower levels of business activity and, ultimately, weaker growth.

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Logility

JUNE 8, 2021

ATLANTA (June 8, 2021) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year, and Software license revenues were $1.2 million for the same period last year, while Software license revenues were $3.0 NASDAQ: AMSWA) today reported preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021. Hasbro, Inc.,

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Logility

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

ATLANTA (February 24, 2021) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year, while Software license revenues were $0.5 million for the same period last year, reflecting our continued transition to the Software as a Service (SaaS) engagement model. Key Third Quarter Financial Highlights: Subscription fees were $7.5

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