Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The authors point to the delivery time disruptions occurring in China , an increase in air freight costs from the U.S. to Asia , as well as the European consequences of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict as now driving added index volatility. Warehouse inventory levels are noted as remaining quite high. s major retailers.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Between them, Ukraine and Russia account for approximately one-third of global wheat production. This means supply chain leaders have had to shift from using trains back to using ocean freight and getting goods to market takes longer. Rethink just-in-time inventory policies: There could be another pandemic or another war.

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QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Continued fallout, including transport congestion, limited air freight and rail freight transportation in the Asia-Europe lanes, because of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. QAD Demand and Delivery achieves improved visibility and collaboration on inventory, schedules, orders, shipments, invoices and replenishment requirements.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 17, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war – The cost of every gallon of fuel covers crude oil, refining, distributing, marketing, and taxes. Due to the war and sanctions on Russia, the price of crude oil has increased dramatically, and there is only so much minimizing that can be to the other cost factors. Consolidate Freight Wherever Possible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Drennan struggled to obtain a driver’s license from the Railroad Commission in charge of regulating motor-freight at the time, allegedly because of her hearing loss, though Drennan believed it to be related to her gender. Maersk and MSC said they would continue to move foodstuffs to and from Russia. The new pool, to be known as SACP 3.0,

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

suppliers of frozen chicken to Kazakhstan began shipping product via the Black Sea and onward through Georgia, Azerbaijan, and across the Caspian Sea, to bypass trade restrictions imposed by Russia. It’s also important to have access to local expertise when evaluating ways to shift freight to the new Silk Road. Financial Times, [link].

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

suppliers of frozen chicken to Kazakhstan began shipping product via the Black Sea and onward through Georgia, Azerbaijan, and across the Caspian Sea, to bypass trade restrictions imposed by Russia. It’s also important to have access to local expertise when evaluating ways to shift freight to the new Silk Road.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Thus, expect to see sanctions against Russia continuing for at least five years or more. Supply chain disruptions have been part of this figure, as disruptions to air, sea and ground links through Russia have continued to impact supply. The good news is that ocean freight rates will start trending down somewhat.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

However, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the EIA’s forecast due to the Russia-Ukraine war and the US domestic economy. Last year it seemed the biggest concern for many shippers was receiving inventory on time, regardless of the cost. for the 12 months ending February. So imagine the fuel surcharge impact on a shipper.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 10, 2022

But those who are best prepared have already taken measures such as building up inventories of sensitive commodities. In a recent story , the Wall Street Journal cast La Niña as an additional factor pushing food prices up—on top of a tripling in fertilizer prices, shipping congestion, high freight rates, and trade tensions between the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Paid subscription or metered view) that ocean container freight rates related to the most active global shipping lanes continue to decline amid what is traditionally considered the peak shipping period leading up to the holiday fulfillment season in the November-December period.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. importers are resetting inventory ordering strategies to avoid any contentious contract talks this summer. Noted is that 2022 holiday season orders are being pulled forward to have inventory received at U.S.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Meanwhile, Brazil, Russia and India will become major suppliers as companies access the remaining untapped resources of the world. Meanwhile, the use of Big Data will empower new fleets and freight optimization and consolidation measures, and the IoT will provide new insights. New markets are emerging in the global economy daily.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

The report further indicated that Inputs, expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports, continued to constrain production expansion. The impacts of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and severe sanctions on Russia impacting key commodities and energy markets are yet to play out in qualitative and quantitative dimensions.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

According to FreightWaves, the FreightTech 100 2023 is “[…] a selection of the most innovative companies in the freight technology space.” Freight Rail and Union Members Reach Tentative Agreement. For the 5th consecutive year, the panel of industry experts at FreightTech 100 chose to add IntelligentAudit to their list.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

This strategy involves a country from a high-cost country area — typically US, UK, Canada, Australia, and West European nations — purchasing materials from resource-rich low-cost countries; think China, India, Indonesia, Bolivia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, and East European nations. control processes. Sourcing domestically.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to FIFA, a staggering 3.572 billon people watched the 2018 World Cup Russia, with 1.12 Products must be passed through the supply chain strategically, avoiding high costs, and delays via dynamic freight bidding, optimized routing , and load building, and productive labor and truck scheduling.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Global supply constraints have come from (1) supply-side disruptions like China’s Zero-COVID policy and the Russia / Ukraine conflict and (2) from demand pressure as federal stimulus flooded the market with extra cash in 2020 and 2021.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While demand volatility was a primary risk factor over the past two years, today supply-side uncertainty is a fast-growing concern, causing supply chain disruptions and resulting in product shortages for some companies and excess inventory for others. Supply-side risk and disruptions are taking many forms.

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Freight Plus

APRIL 22, 2021

Crude Oil pricing is impacted by both real and perceived demand, production output and inventory levels, global events, market speculation, and policy (both domestic and foreign) decisions and legislation. With OPEC and Russia not increasing production output, the price of crude rose again, which directly impacts the price of diesel.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. Nikkei Asia ).

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Customers Inventories remain in the ‘too low’ category (25% - down 5.8% With on-going low inventories and increases in new orders, manufacturing output is projected to remain strong for the coming months. . New Orders Index continues came in at 64.9% (down 1.1% since June), Production Index is at 58.4% (down 2.4% since June).

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S. the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories. firms are expected to reshore upwards of 350,000 jobs in 2022 alone. billion in September.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 31, 2021

Customers Inventories remain in the ‘too low’ category (30.8% - up slightly since May). With on-going low inventories and increases in new orders, manufacturing output is projected to remain strong for the coming months. . • New Orders Index continues came in at 66% (down 1% since May), Production Index is at 60.8% (up 2.3% since May).

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Now the New York Minute is reflective of Russia waging war in Ukraine , precipitating a significant war footing on the European continent, the most significant since World War Two , including a widescale refugee crisis as Ukrainian citizens are forced to flee their homeland. Everything is a little out of sync right now. ”.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

China trade tensions, Covid-19 measures and the Russia-Ukraine crisis. It is prime time for visibility / inventory management tools and outsourcing. For instance, Maersk and CMA CGM are building end-to-end logistics capability chains, while over USD 6bn was invested by VC investors in freight marketplaces alone through 2019.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Secondly, materials and products originating in Russia and Ukraine are now in short supply, as they are simply not moving out of those countries. But, right now, after five months of armed conflict in Ukraine, economies worldwide, especially those in Europe, are beginning to feel the effects. Trouble has arisen on three fronts.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 19, 2022

The modern supply chain is global and often depends on Russia for production, either equipment or materials. Russia and Ukraine supply critical materials for industrial production, the development of advanced batteries, and other items related to making industrial applications greener. What’s impacted? Raw materials.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I also worked with a team of leading thinkers in developing the Future of Procurement Report (published by KPMG) , as well as publish the BVL International Global Logistics Trends and Strategies report with a team of leading academics and executives in Europe, China, North and South America, Russia, and India.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This is why supply chain managers are always stressing over demand forecasts — something that tops the list of most critical inventory management practices. And considering that our international tariff laws have been more dynamic in the past three years, shipping U.S. goods is more complex than it used to be. Ali Hasan R.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. The companies building their inventories are looking to ensure they have items on hand at the right moment. Walgreens takes its delivery service round the clock. The largest U.S.

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Logility

APRIL 19, 2022

A resurgence of COVID-19 in Shenzhen, China – a logistics, tech, and manufacturing hub – means suspended operations and may further boost both freight rates and container prices. The companies Ingas and Cryoin have shut down operations as Russia escalates attacks and destroys essential infrastructure.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

and European companies may last longer than expected as they try to sell off their bulging inventories in an economic climate where demand is stalling. They stocked up again after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed up the price of raw materials such as energy and wheat. That’s all for this week.

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Logility

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Then we saw a glut of inventory hit the shelves in late summer when those bottlenecks were addressed. The Russia-Ukraine war and China’s rising Covid lockdowns add to the congestion problems in 2023. Last year’s shortages = next year’s oversupply 2. Retailers had to slash prices to deal with the excess.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. A world transformed. New solutions for a new reality.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

By destroying Ukraine’s agricultural infrastructure and ports, Russia has seriously destabilized supply chains for numerous commodities such as wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed oil, sunflower seeds, and sunflower oil. Both Ukraine and Russia are among the most important producers of the abovementioned commodities in the world.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

More recently, the war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia have placed limitations on both the overland rail and air freight routes from China to Europe and increased the strain on Northern European ports that were already congested before the war. Flexible inventory management. Digital centralized workflows.

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