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Red Sea Ocean Transport Shipping Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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IKEA’s IWAY Lessons For Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Furthermore, the guidelines spelled out in IWAY established a new normal for the future of Ikea’s requirements on suppliers. However, they hold suppliers accountable for communicating their ideologies or concepts further down – to second, third, and fourth tiers of the supply chain.

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IKEA’s IWAY Has Lessons For Every Procurement Team!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Furthermore, the guidelines spelled out in IWAY established a new normal for the future of Ikea’s requirements on suppliers. However, they hold suppliers accountable for communicating their ideologies or concepts further down – to second, third, and fourth tiers of the supply chain. What is IWAY?