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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

We’ve seen how the lockdowns in Shanghai snarled global supply chains. The ongoing Ukraine–Russia conflict has caused turmoil in significant parts of the global food chain, and in fact, Ukraine is a major exporter of barley (30% of global totals), wheat (25%), and sunflower oil (60%). Weather events might also be factors.

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Two Indices of Supply Chain Activity Noting Supply Chain Volatility Trending

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers specific global and regional supply chain indices that depict both trending production activity levels, as well as supply chain volatility. Newly published indices reflecting global supply chain volatility and U.S.

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

Welcome to Elementum’s Supply Chain Market Report. This monthly newsletter observes one or two important macro trends through the lens of Supply Chain Management. We review how those trends are likely to impact Supply Chain and what leaders can do to adjust. How could Stagflation impact Supply Chain?

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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

For Bollore a deal would mean cutting ties with its biggest business while offering cash-rich CMA CGM a chance to bolster its bid to offer end-to-end transportation services and supply chain management. Xeneta’s analysis also shows that Russia substantially increased its import of goods from China.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Russia sent covid assistance in the form of oxygen concentrators and generators. It also announced the supply of 3 to 4 lakh units of Remdesvir Injection, a Covid drug that India was falling short of.

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2022: A Look in the Rearview Mirror–Part I

American Global Logistics

This was the year that supply chains regained some of their footing finding firmer ground. But the supply chain industry resolved some major issues and formed a more certain path ahead. To be sure, volatility and unpredictability still disrupt supply chain operations. It wasn’t a breakthrough year.

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Dealing with Supply Chain Uncertainty After Covid: Insights from the Experts

NC State SCRC

A small group of executives enjoyed a particularly interesting set of insights yesterday at our first Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting since December, 2019. Rob provided some compelling views on how to re-conceptualize supply chains given the current set of challenges we face in the world today.