The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 14, 2023

When Germany began to ruthlessly target European shipping routes, ships previously used for commercial trade were recalled and redirected to support the war effort, leading to an increased demand for U.S. Among the many benefits the legislation offers, here are five ways the Act will immediately impact the industry. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Reportedly, destocking activities increased with finished product and raw materials inventories decreasing by the end of the quarter. Reportedly, with the exception of Greece , all other EU countries registered PMI declines, with Germany and Austria having the fastest rates of production declines. was relatively unchanged from the 49.0

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. The lowest production performance and associated supply chain activity levels were reported as that of Germany , Austria , Czech Republic , United Kingdom and Poland. The inventories index decreased 2.1

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The latest report indicated that rates of expansion slowed in consumer, investment and intermediate goods industries, the latter for the third time in three months. Also highlighted was that purchasing activity, stocks of purchases and finished goods inventories collectively rose in July. slipping 2.3 percentage points from the 52.1

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

Product Sustainability Begins in the Field and Factory Sustainability has become a priority for businesses of all shapes and sizes and across every industry. In a recent BearingPoint survey, a whopping 85% of companies attribute their move to sustainable procurement practices to government regulations.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 18, 2018

They included 300 executives in 11 industries in Canada, China, Germany, and the United States. They recently published their findings in a paper called What it takes to get an edge in the Internet of Things. McKinsey surveyed IoT executives at companies that have moved beyond experiments and scaled up IoT.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We now include added updates related to ongoing production disruptions amid population lockdowns across China, increasing concerns related to European supply chains, and added signs for a product demand slowdown within segments of the semiconductor industry. He further indicated that the industry downturn may well extend into 2023.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. Additionally, its strategic location in proximity to Germany, France, and the UK adds to its appeal.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Combined with more activity at their regional hub in Germany , Amazon has clearly become a major global cargo airline. For a company like Amazon, 2021 underscores the importance of owning middle-mile capabilities to ensure resilient inventories. Flexport in the US, Beacon in the UK, Forto in Germany, K-Log in Latin America).

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

The metaphor was reflective of when global shipping lines elected to take advantage of such disruptions to drive up shipping rates and ancillary charges to unprecedented levels with ongoing financial impacts to multiple industries. The industry supply chain implications are extremely impactful. . A Sudden Tide Change.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Headquartered in Germany , flexis provides what is described as a hybrid modular architecture of supply chain modules that enable intelligent ways to optimize supply chain planning for wide range of industries with national or international networks. That has included Lordstown Motors , Proterra , Volta Trucks , and now Arrival.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Despite its prevalence, if you choose to sell CBD products online you’ll face a complicated industry with complex legal and marketing challenges. You might look at the explosive evolution that the CBD industry has undergone in the past couple of years and find yourself intimidated by market saturation and competition. Over 60% of U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

They collectively provide evidence that the prior disruptions still occurring among industry supply chains, compounded by the latest manufacturing, logistics and transportation disruptions occurring in China, will have a longer economic and service level effect in the coming months. Added Supply Chain Matters Observations and Insights.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The report’s authors indicated that the downturn in global production was primarily centered on the intermediate goods sector which remains not a positive sign for future multi-industry supply network momentum in the weeks to come. Austria was indicated as the worst performer, followed by Germany and France. reflecting a 1.1

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

From a positive note, report authors noted softer manufacturing deterioration in Germany and Italy in December. Germany ’s manufacturing sector reportedly ended 2023 with signs that the worst of a long downturn may be behind. The pivotal turning point in the inventory cycle is a key factor for initiating a recovery.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. are: Germany, China, Japan, Canada, and Korea. But when the industry again has a global surplus, the high-cost U.S. South Carolina is 11th after years as number one. The top countries that are investing in manufacturing sites in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With output contracting for the fifth consecutive month and business optimism reportedly dipping to an 11-month low, the report pointed to cutbacks occurring in manufacturing employment, purchasing and inventory levels globally. Germany reportedly remained the worst performer while faster declines were reported for Italy , Spain and Ireland.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

McKinsey also found that AI-enhanced predictive maintenance of industrial equipment will generate a 10% reduction in annual maintenance costs, up to a 20% downtime reduction and 25% reduction in inspection costs. Source: Smartening up with Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What’s in it for Germany and its Industrial Sector? (52

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Report authors noted that sector data of new orders indicated that contraction occurred across consumer, intermediate and investment goods industries. Considerable weakness was noted for both Germany (a 38 month low) and Austria (a 39 month low) in July, both reporting the lowest PMI values in this sector.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Quicker declines in finished goods inventories and a softer reduction in pre-production stocks were noted. The only country with positive PMI growth was Greece , while Germany, France and Austria PMI levels were the lowest, Austria being 43.0 Further reductions in manufacturing employment were reported. and France being 43.1.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 5, 2023

That could signal even more added inventory exposures. To add further perspective to our prior Supply Chain Matters commentary indicating an economic and manufacturing recession now occurring in Germany , the separately reported HCOB Germany Manufacturing PMI© fell again in May to a value of 43.2 respectively.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Peter Guinto capped his 12-year Air Force career in procurement by serving on the federal COVID supply chain task force and becoming head of contracting for the Medium-altitude UAS Division—the unit responsible for keeping the United States’ edge in warfighting drones. What are some key areas of concern we need to be thinking about?

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Further concerning was that the volume of warehouse finished goods inventories rose to the greatest extent in four months. percentage point increase in March while the Inventories sub-index dipped to the contraction value of 47.5,

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2022

Yet, due to the sheer number of variables that influences the average industry (including large and varied network partners) alone, businesses are often playing catch-up by way of responding to bottlenecks, breakdowns, or any number of other planning and production hurdles. Procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Countries experiencing sequential monthly lows were noted as France, Austria and Germany , the latter recording a 46.3 percentage points from the previous month, and noted as an indication that the market demand of the manufacturing industry continued to increase. United States Two indices of U.S. increasing 3.2

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We additionally noted trending indicating that many businesses were factoring uncertain product demand and supply network risks, and that was going to make industry supply chain strategies far more challenging in the weeks ahead. Commenting on the September data, Bennett Parrish, Global Economist at J.P. representing a 0.6

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 19, 2020

Services provided by Supply Chain Secrets include a structured, subscription-based, online mentoring program for supply chain professionals (or anyone who wants to know more about the industry), a series of books, and of course, the seminars. Procurement and purchasing. Inventory management and optimisation. Germany – Hamburg.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

We additionally noted that many businesses were factoring uncertain product demand and supply network risks, and that was going to make industry supply chain strategies far more challenging in the weeks ahead. Of continued concern, manufacturing powerhouses of Germany, Spain and Italy each remain at contraction level PMI values.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Of further concern to economists and global supply chain management teams was indicators that the October downturn was concentrated in the intermediate goods sector, which is essentially multi- industry supply network activity, the pipeline feeding production of goods. Noticeably, the Backlog of Orders sub-index declined 5.6 Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 26, 2015

Within this organization, you are responsible for global supply chain management activities across geographies (Netherlands, Germany, Canada and Singapore), successfully driving supply chain strategies and policies ensuring availability and on time delivery of products (print systems, parts, and OEM) to customers. Interested?

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. That said, the flexibility of the logistics industry has been one of the positives during the COVID-19 crisis. April marks the start of the asparagus harvest in southern Germany, an event that has a quasi-religious significance in some towns and villages. pic.twitter.com/T8B9C8bbi9.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2023

Positive client interest continued to support the manufacturing industry, driving growth of output, employment, quantities of purchases and input stocks.” Thailand a Regional Standout A further regional standout, manufacturers across Thailand reportedly experienced “ solid manufacturing sector expansion ” in June. reflected a significant 3.5

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we revisit EV automaker Tesla’s prior report of Q3-2022 operational performance with this week’s formal report of financial performance. The themes are somewhat similar. .

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Often, we end up asking the partner in Germany or Spain or somewhere, ‘Can you air freight this? Accurate demand forecasting key to an optimised supply chain “Forecasting is the single thing that people struggle with the most in our industry: not having that access to data or any sales history to fall back on.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 8, 2020

It saw leaders from around the world pledging new initiatives to address the ongoing climate crisis, including a $60 Billion renewable energy commitment from Germany, and 15 countries including Britain, Norway and Costa Rica pledging to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. In September 2019, the U.N. climate summit convened in New York.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. Some of the OEMs in the automotive industry struggled with the end-to-end processing of leather, which came from South Africa.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I can claim to have been a nuclear rocket engineer for a couple of years, looking after nuclear rockets in West Germany during the end of the Cold War. Because one of the major costs in a business, if you take in procurement and cost of goods, is supply chain. So military logistics was really interesting because it’s big scale stuff.

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