Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Reportedly, these adjustments further represent a greater than 10 percent raise for most hourly workers within the Nevada battery manufacturing complex. This influence includes the country’s very influential auto industry, including Volkswagen , Germany’s largest auto maker, who’s production workers are represented by IG Metall.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate, Supply Chain Matters blog unveils part two of a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. Anticipated Supply Chain Business Process and Technology Enablement.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 12, 2024

Reportedly, these adjustments further represent a greater than 10 percent raise for most hourly workers within the Nevada battery manufacturing complex. Further indicated is that the labor union has active organizing efforts targeting Tesla and a dozen other auto manufacturers with a U.S. up to $34.50 per hour on the high end.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Ford has elected to partner with South Korean based battery manufacturer SK Innovation , in building and the joint operating of three battery production facilities, two in Kentucky and one in Tennessee. The combination of industry transformation to EV supply and production networks facilitated by U.S. Both of these U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2022

Employees have had to deal with more than two years of the impact of the pandemic on the auto industry, including the ongoing global wide shortages of semiconductor devices and select high tech components along with double-digit increases of supplier parts.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2022

There remains a growing belief that existing supply chain and talent management processes need a rethink. Talent recruitment challenges already existed in many industry areas prior to the global pandemic and have since grown more concerning. Introduction and Purpose.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

As our Supply Chain Matters readers are acutely aware, global supply chains are clogged, with businesses, consumers and business customers, and especially various industry supply chain workers collectively frustrated. Background. Availability of Part Two Research Advisory.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some labor relations experts anticipate that the ongoing wave of labor activism that has led to significant wage gains will spill over to other industries and to non-unionized workforces as higher wage thresholds are established in specific industries. Indeed, all three “ paid up ,” perhaps more than they originally anticipated.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

As expected, with this industry’s just-in-time inventory management practices, the implications of the work stoppages cascading across individual automaker’s tiered supplier networks. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Stay tuned.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2023

America’s entire auto industry is at-risk if the ongoing labor disruption is prolonged.” Other reports point to an estimated additional 6,000 workers impacted by layoffs or furloughs among industry supply networks because of limited work, with smaller specialty suppliers especially being impacted economically.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights results of a study conducted among U.S. based middle market manufacturing industry regarding what this segment has accomplished in 2022, and the challenges viewed for 2023. All rights reserved. The post Highlights of U.S.

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Examples might be a “state of the industry” report purchased from a consulting company or a publicly available database such as the Census of U.S. Manufacturers or the U.S. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Department of Labor Statistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog provides an overview of our 2024 annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains. Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P.

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I also wrote about this in the context of “ heedful interrelating ” between people working in the same supply chain. In a podcast discussion with Kathryn Kelly, who leads the Ohio State University Manufacturing Network, we talked about some of the big impacts that the LIVING Supply Chain will have on small business.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this third Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. unionized auto companies. Stay tuned.

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