SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

Even before the pandemic, global supply chain were fragile thanks to factors such as the US-China trade war, less efficient shipping routes and a huge drive to cut costs by consolidating loads. The post The impact of regional instabilities on the Global Supply Chain and how ERP can help appeared first on SYSPRO Blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Global Wide Production Activity. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the event. Container shipping prices skyrocket.

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Ware2Go

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Offering international shipping in your ecommerce shop can open your business up to a world of opportunity. This straightforward guide defines some commonly used terms and outlines your options to ship cross-border and expand your customer base. For DDP shipments, the seller pays the duties upfront before shipping the item.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Panama Canal, a crucial 50-mile waterway that six percent of all global trade passes through, faced major traffic jams this month due to a historic drought. Two weeks ago, 160 ships were stuck waiting to pass through the canal, carrying everything from auto parts, Barbie dolls, and diabetes test kits, according to Reuters.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 3, 2020

Some are concerned about a pandemic, others about the deceleration of the global supply chain and its effect on their bottom lines, and yet others about their employees, customers and families. At ThroughPut, we are coincidentally at the frontlines of this global disruption. I’ll start with Japan. Actually, we predicted it.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Same-day delivery (or is it shipping?) and global trade dominated the news this week, so let’s take a look. WTO overcomes last minute hitch to reach its first global trade deal ( Reuters ). Japan Impasse Dogs Pan-Pacific Trade Talks ( Wall Street Journal ). Home Depot To Offer Same Day Delivery ( Wall Street Journal ).

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Logility

APRIL 9, 2020

Although I am sure I missed a few, the point is our global, complex, fast-paced supply chains can be disrupted in hundreds of ways and I for one don’t see that changing anytime soon. Divert inventory on the fly. Just think what that time compression could allow your company to do and how much value that might create.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 5, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership. Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX).

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 20, 2017

Japan to subsidize pickup lockers to reduce parcel deliveries (Nikkei Asian Review). Japan firms shifting to trains to move freight amid dearth of new truckers (The Japan Times). It leverages both existing inventory location technologies and new technologies via the Internet of Things. What’s the common thread here?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Compared to the 1,382 containers on average lost per year between 2008-2019 as reported by The World Shipping Council, that’s a big jump. Although vessel accidents are unplanned and usually unpredictable, there are steps you can take before you ship so you’re not scrambling when you get the news your freight was involved in an accident.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Ukraine in the news: War in Ukraine disrupts ships around the globe. As Clint Reiser pointed out earlier this week, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is impacting global supply chains. The world’s biggest container ship operators, A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and Mediterranean Shipping Co.,

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2019

What’s less recognized is that natural disasters also wreak immense havoc on global supply chains, because they result in the cancellations of flights, the closure of ports, and the shutting down of highways. For example, the catastrophic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami a few years ago resulted in a massive US$210 billion in costs for Japan.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Two commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains published at the beginning of 2022. In 2021, global economists and think tanks were coming to a consensus that a long-term decoupling between the U.S.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Shipping costs are also expected to spike upwards. The rise of China in the past decade coincided with a global economic boom after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It raised its prowess from running mere factories to one that offered a complete value chain: from research and development to shipping and fulfillment.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And right now—with leaders of both political parties, economic think tanks, institutional investors, and influential columnists saying we must de-globalize and reshore our supply chains or face economic, environmental, and geopolitical catastrophes—the realists’ perspectives aren’t especially popular. That’s good news.

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Unleashed

MAY 10, 2020

We’ll take a closer look at: Pull inventory systems. Pull inventory systems. A pull inventory system is a Lean approach to reducing waste in any production process. Just-in-time (JIT) is a lean management strategy that minimises the inventory held in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency. What is JIT?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

Imagine a bitcoin being a unit of inventory and a digital wallet (“bitcoin address”) being an inventory-keeping location, such as a store, distribution center, or truck trailer. A supply chain blockchain application, therefore, could be used to record the balances and transfers of inventory across a distributed supply chain network.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 9, 2019

Alex Behrens reports, “ DHL Resilience360 recently released Stormy Weather Ahead: A Global Outlook on the 2019 Season to compile information about the impacts that even small storms can have and discuss the short- and long-term implications of these systems on existing supply chains. Seasons are annual events. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. In prestige beauty and nutritional supplements, the cost to ship the product is minuscule. For example, people want prestige beauty from the US, Europe or Japan.

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Elementum

APRIL 25, 2016

By redesigning supply chains, companies could prevent mismatches between inventory and demand as well as accurately monitor the movement of goods. Meanwhile, the Indian government recently approved 100% foreign investment in marketplace e-commerce companies, which includes warehousing, inventory and payments processing to merchants.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Overall, global activity reportedly showed signs of increased production output for consumer goods production levels but continued muted growth for intermediate supply network and investment goods production levels.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

For example, the China-owned COSCO and China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) have confirmed their merger. What would prevent from the Japan carriers NYK, “K” Line, and MOL to make the next move? Moving and planning inventories on both fixed and spot—or even pegging rates to an index—are options.

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EMERGE App

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And you were probably looking for sellers that offered free shipping, too. We’ll also cover how businesses manage their inventory with other product codes. It’s better to think of ASIN as Amazon’s own SKU to track the millions of products that it stores, sells and ships. Managing Inventory with Product Codes.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 15, 2021

The global shortage of semiconductor chips that is disrupting supply chains in the automotive and consumer electronics industries is forcing chipmakers to decide which customers’ orders to fulfill when product is in short supply. hit Japan and devastated factories there.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. How Labor Shortages Have Hurt the Supply Chain.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 1, 2020

It seems like a long time ago, but the interview is still very relevant, especially as we consider how important it is to understand the disruptions that exist in our global supply chains. But it literally became a “rocket ship”, which required him to move to Japan to source parts.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Unlike SARS in 2003, the Covid-19 pandemic has spawned an unprecedented Global health pandemic. The enforcements of draconian lockdowns, various economies have experienced severe shocks, adversely affecting global trade, global tourism & travel, International Aviation and Airports as well as International Shipping and Ports.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Predicting demand was never easy (with or without an astrologer), and, looking ahead, the challenges of global supply chain disruptions continue in 2022. Lesson #1: Global supply chain challenges have businesses turning to local suppliers. We have therefore worked hard to build relationships with local suppliers in Northwestern USA.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Moreover, products can be shipped to stores in-time then lost sales is minimal. Jobs told Cook that he visited many manufacturing companies in Japan and he would like Cook to implement the JIT system for Apple. The answer is that they use the multi-echelon inventory model to solve the problem.

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Vinculum

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An e-commerce exports program, Amazon Global Selling is designed for sellers to sell internationally from any country. Here’s why you should export through Amazon Global Selling? With $2 Billion+ eCommerce Exports Sales, Amazon Global Selling has been helping entrepreneurs to export through eCommerce.

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ShipBob

JANUARY 24, 2022

For some, the dream is often far-fetched because there are so many processes and considerations involved – from shipping and warehousing to customs and tariffs. Businesses that are shipping goods from the U.S And for Japan, you can find these codes on the official Japan Customs and Tariff Bureau website.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 12, 2022

Using shop-by-store features to check inventory availability before going to make purchases in-store. Buying products in-store, then having them shipped to their homes. Inventory Visibility. Today’s retailers are embracing inventory visibility to streamline omnichannel operations. Buy online and return in-store (BORIS).

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Connected Geos Connected geos is all about the continuing evolution of the global supply chain. These disruptions occur for myriad reasons, such as factory disruptions in China or ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal. As a result, FourKites has moved from a single product company to a platform company.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2016

For example, the China-owned COSCO and China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) have confirmed their merger. What would prevent from the Japan carriers NYK, “K” Line, and MOL to make the next move? Moving and planning inventories on both fixed and spot—or even pegging rates to an index—are options.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. For example: Japan earthquake 2016. The pandemic has shown that companies struggle to have the correct distribution of parts in the inventory holding.

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Vinculum

JANUARY 27, 2021

Entry costs are also lower than other Asian countries like Japan or China. There is no need to set up any overseas entity and you can ship your products directly to Lazada’s fulfillment center in Hong Kong. They manage everything from pick-up at the port, inbound, storage, pick & pack, and shipping.

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