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. For those businesses located in the U.S., the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories.

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Unleashed

MARCH 31, 2021

The life of coffee begins with growers in the likes of Brazil or Vietnam. Some companies like to control their own logistics operations, and may have warehouses around the country or world as well as in-house shipping functions to transfer goods and information from place to place. Transportation costs. Perfect order rate.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 9, 2016

An excerpt from our book “The Procurement Value Proposition” got a nice section of CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly edition this week. As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative, led by Professor Robert Monczka.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

Often the sources of information are hidden in piles of data that we don’t think about. Social media feeds are just one more form of intelligence that can be leveraged to deal with the flood of information. No easy task. How do we identify problems that may be surfacing, that are hidden in the mass of unfiltered data we have today?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That subsequently led to Apple having to issue a press release informing customers of unanticipated shipping delays of the then newly released iPhone14 models which were later reflected in Apple ’s iPhone revenue shortfalls that year. What apparently was missing is what specific challenges that entailed. Welcome to the new, new normal.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

The alternative supply chain or “ Altasian” is defined as countries consisting of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, the Philippines , Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh.

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QAD

JUNE 13, 2023

Benefits such as low-cost labor, raw materials, cheap transportation, favorable regulations and proximity to suppliers were too good to pass up. That includes front-end forecasting and planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and import/export. Starting in the late 1980s, packing up shop and moving abroad made sense.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

In our Supply Chain Matters commentary that highlighted this development , we mentioned various business media reporting citing informed sources, indicating that China’s health officials and government advisors leveraged the letter to bolster the case for easing the country’s pandemic controls.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. Because one of the major costs in a business, if you take in procurement and cost of goods, is supply chain. That’s been a massive trend.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Shipping Executives Anticipate Longer Disruption According to a published report from Bloomberg this week , the CEO’s of two global transport carriers indicated that the Red Sea threat is likely to disrupt shipping for weeks or months longer. Shippers assessing shipping from China, India or Vietnam to either U.S. West Coast or U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

The second aspect of this movement are media reports indicating that Apple has informed its major contract manufacturers that is wants to boost product sourcing outside of China , preferably India or Vietnam. As ongoing developments have bought to the forefront, assumptions of the past are just that, assumptions.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2017

He began by discussing how Free Trade Agreements, along with labor costs and transportation rates, are among the three most critical elements to factor in when analyzing global supply chain decisions. The RCEP doesn’t cover labor laws, data, information services – just products. It excludes Canada, USA, Mexico, Chile, and Peru.

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