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Global Production Activity Levels Remain in Contraction at the End of 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with December 2024, Q4-2024 , and year-end global supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI reporting. Both are key indicators to future supply chain momentum or growth. While activity levels declined slightly from the 56.5 in November to 50.5

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Global Supply Chain PMI Levels- State of Muted Expansion at End of Q1-2025

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with both March 2025 and Q1-2025 supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI indices reporting. Strong demand prompted firms to tap into their inventories causing the fastest drop in finished goods stocks in over three years. The March PMI value of 48.6

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Global Wide Manufacturing Levels Expand in June 2025

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with our summary highlights, perspectives and insights related to published June 2025 PMI indices. The open question is whether June’s expansion was related solely to inventory pre-loading prior to the imposition of considerably higher global wide tariff levels. in June reflecting a 0.5

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Shipping on High Alert in Mideast After U.S. Strikes on Iran

Supply Chain Brain

Greece, home to more oil oil-tanker capacity than any other nation, cautioned its ship owners to think again if considering entering the Persian Gulf in the wake of U.S. airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities. airstrikes.

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From Demand to Delivery: ToolsGroup Transforms SLF Greece’s Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

Leading beauty retailer choose ToolsGroup to optimize inventory and automate omnichannel supply chain planning across multiple countries. This move automates their omnichannel supply chain planning and shifts them from a supply-driven to a demand-driven model.

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Artificial Intelligence – sifting through the hype and the promise for forecasting

Kinaxis

Famed forecasting expert and organizer of the Makridakis Competitions (known as the M-competitions) Spyros Makridakis spoke to us remotely from his post at the University of Nicosia in Greece. Kinaxis cofounder Duncan Klett drew on his training as an engineer to lay out his premise that a supply chain is a control system.

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Not up to Promethean Standards: Greece’s Pharmaceutical Supply Chain is Worryingly Weak

Elementum

As analysts debate the likelihood of a separation, Greek citizens struggle with dwindling supplies and the risk of their savings disappearing. While food and oil are readily available, certain supply chains – most worryingly, pharmaceuticals – are in danger of being disrupted at various levels. A Sisyphean Task.