Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 13, 2025

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This prediction was our view that direct materials sourcing and procurement organizations by their role would continue to provide a de-facto presence and accountability for investment in and enhancements of supplier risk management and controls. Evidence of Mexico as an alternative nearshoring action remains mixed this year.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal. The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

While it may seem smart to simplify procurement and lower costs, single sourcing can actually expose businesses to risks that can jeopardize their operations and bottom line. Single sourcing and sole sourcing are two different procurement strategies in supply chain management. What is single sourcing and sole sourcing?

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Resilinc

MAY 4, 2021

political leaders and geopolitical analysts advocate procuring more goods from other democratic countries. Here’s how and why it works: Mexico and Canada already rank as the United States’ second- and third-largest trading partners: Mexico provided 13.9% Linton calls this strategy “our Pan-American Destiny.”. and Canada 11.6%

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Calcutta, India: IGI Global. Companies in India.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Low-cost country sourcing is a procurement strategy that falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing. The aim of a low-cost country sourcing strategy is to minimise capital investment and maximise profits, with all other costs being equal.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 18, 2022

Countries like China, India, and most other Asia countries, along with Eastern Europe and Mexico became the preferred location for manufacturing. With responsibility for Global Commodity Management and Procurement, and the sourcing of billions of dollars of goods and services, I saw this dynamic play out first hand.

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QAD

APRIL 4, 2023

Updates in the past few months address new requirements for Brazil, India, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, United States and other global regions. Additional import management trade content is now available for Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland and Uruguay.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Our 2023 predictions among areas of anticipated strategic shifting of industry product supply networks have indeed occurred as business and their supply chain management teams actively initiated added resiliency and agility efforts with the major country recipients being India and Mexico.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Bloomberg reported in November 2022 that shipments of motor vehicles, computer parts and boats, manufactured in Mexico and destined for U.S. Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China Plus sourcing actions. India has a large labor force, but infrastructure is patchy.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

He was also an important contributor to our understanding of the modern field of procurement and supply chain relationship management. This argument made sense in 1937 – because procurement was viewed primarily as a transactional activity. The only focus they had was to drive prices down – otherwise they would keep the job inhouse.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Among the activity of the 29 nations that make up this index, only seven had indexes of positive values in December, which included India , Mexico, the Philippines , among four others. For the developing regions sector, India remains a standout, followed by Thailand , Mexico and Indonesia. but a significant 10.2

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

front that retailers and certain businesses may have procured too much inventory , and now that these inventories have arrived, the challenge will be not to exposed to a decline in consumer buying activity in the months to come. This month, the Economist Intelligence Unit revised its forecast of the overall U.S. inflation rate to be 9.2

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. It’s full of lively anecdotes, including many from his experience building a 3,000-employee appliance refurbishing company in his native India. Manufacturing in Mexico today is at least 20% cheaper than China.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

Locations that have benefitted from this sourcing shift are noted in the report as Vietnam and Mexico , the latter being a preferred nearshoring or friendshoring alternative. As an example, the authors point to Vietnam gaining ground in electronics, apparel and textiles, while Mexico has been increasing U.S. supply chain activity.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2016

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. Guadeloupe. Guinea-bissau.

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QAD

JUNE 13, 2023

That includes front-end forecasting and planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and import/export. When you use local labor, procure raw materials locally and center production in the same area, the benefits flow into the nearby economy in the form of job growth and financial stability.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2023

Source: S&P Global Intelligence, July 2023 Highlights of Regional Reporting- Good and Not So Good Continued Production Expansion Across India Increased product demand and manufacturing activity levels across India during June outpaced all other regions. The S&P Global India Manufacturing PMI® fell from a value of 58.7

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

India has again demonstrated the highest level of PMI growth and the report authors point to Greece, Indonesia, Russia and Brazil as demonstrating stronger rates of expansion. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI® (renamed in December) climbed to a noted 16-year high level of 59.1 From our lens, the data points to India.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The top producing nations by notion of highest PMI levels were noted as India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Greece and Russia. The S&P Global India Manufacturing PMI® rose to a level of 58.6 We sense that the accelerating manufacturing growth across India is reflective of changing global sourcing strategies within specific industry sectors.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China de-risking sourcing actions. HP Specific Moves This latest report goes on to indicate that a portion of production sourcing, estimated to be upwards of 5 million units, will shift toward Mexico to support U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Thailand , India , and Mexico this year. According to a published report from Bloomberg (Paid subscription), “ Over the past 12 months, the global average temperature was 1.64C higher than pre-industrial levels, above the 1.5C threshold that policymakers and scientists say threatens life on the planet.”

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But reality might seem to indicate that German manufacturers need to continue to pivot from the high dependence on China and perhaps take advantage of the new manufacturing investment underway in regions such as India, Vietnam, Mexico , the United States and other regional areas.

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Requis

MARCH 23, 2021

I spent a long time with Bechtel doing large projects all around the world including Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, and India. In India I led a project doing the first deep sea / offshore gas development in the Bay of Bengal with a company called Reliance, owned by one of the richest people in the world.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The September S&P Global India Manufacturing PMI® posted a value of 55.1, One of the most significant headlines related to this region was the announcement from Apple that the new model iPhone14 is being simultaneously produced both in China and India. . slipping from both the August and July PMI values in excess of 56.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Revival of Demand for Mexican Products The S&P Global Mexico Manufacturing PMI® was headlined as a revival in demand for Mexican goods and: “ a considerably better operating environment at the start of the fourth quarter.” The S&P Global India Manufacturing PMI® slipped from a value of 57.5 This index rose from 49.8 in October.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Procurement and supply management leaders will be expected to provide both leadership for supply resiliency and added value, but also supply network cost reductions. This is likely to include select areas of added business and supply chain digital transformation, but in more managed and focused scope.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Whereas, among a grouping of developing regions consisting of China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand , production and supply chain activity levels declined 2.4 Upon reviewing a grouping of developed regions, namely the United States, Eurozone, Japan and Taiwan, production and supply chain activity levels declined 2.9

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

Bloomberg reported ( Paid subscription ) that “ this summer’s heat has already put millions of people around the world at risk ” including China, India, Mexico and parts of the United States.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Simon Gale, Executive Vice President at supply chain procurement services firm Proxima, and others have come to observe : “ The reality of global supply chains is that onshoring to the point of self-sufficiency is not possible, hence a complex web of stimulating investments and strategic supply chain partnerships. ”

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

2023 Prediction Three: More Direct Control in Strategic or Tactical Multi-tiered Direct Materials Sourcing will Continue to be a Prominent Element of Business Strategy for Chief Supply Chain or Chief Procurement Officer Efforts. . Canada or Mexico. Prediction Background. Higher cost levels will need to be mitigated or reduced.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While supply chains are starting to stabilize, Resilinc hopes the pandemic’s lessons will lead procurement and supply chain managers to shift to more regionalized sourcing models. and global OEMs have optimized and globalized sourcing and procurement to reduce labor and other input costs. Over the past 40 years, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

With manufacturers now electing to source more production in regions such as India and Vietnam , or in nearshored areas of Mexico or Northern Europe , the notions of changing global supply networks have implications going forward, not only for FedEx, but other global based carriers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

The company reportedly plans to shift 15% to 20% of its production to India and Vietnam by 2026, reducing exposure to U.S.China tariffs. With tariffs on Chinese products such as clothing and electronics, the retailer has diversified its supplier base to include partnerships in Southeast Asia and India. Nearshoring and Reshoring U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2020

Heading the list of alternative manufacturing hubs are Vietnam, India, Thailand, and Mexico. The study also found that US companies were sourcing their traditional imports from China in other Asian countries instead, notably Vietnam, and, closer to home, Mexico, as they weighed surety of supply against costs. As Does Japan ….

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