Freight Logistics Manufacturing Procurement United States 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 18, 2023
The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. Build in-market sourcing. Unrest in Sudan. What is normalcy?
Enterra Insights
JANUARY 17, 2019
Nevertheless, over the past few years there have been some significant changes in the manufacturing sector, including the maturation of additive manufacturing and the emergence of the Internet of Things (often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)). Manufacturing trends. ”[1] Those arguments still hold.
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Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
The Emergence of Logistics as Constraint. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. Over time, this changed.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 12, 2022
And now on to this week’s logistics news. Earlier this week, the company announced that it will acquire Italy’s Bomi Group, which provides global healthcare logistics services. Both marine products were supported by growing demand from Japanese restaurants in the United States. 7-Eleven acquires Skipcart delivery service.
Talking Logistics
JANUARY 16, 2018
Trade flowing across the United States-Mexico border has grown exponentially since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted in 1994. Assuming current trends hold, and NAFTA remains largely intact, here are five things to consider when managing cross-border logistics between the United States and Mexico: 1.
Supply Chain Matters
APRIL 4, 2023
However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. As noted in our February highlights, such a state can imply a breather, a turning point, or pending shifts. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. That stated, the reported 49.6
Freightos
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort. But then global freight kicked in. . It really got tricky when we hadover thousands of unitsin production and were starting to book freight and suddenly realized that the cost of freight was almost 4 or 5X what we had budgeted.
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