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SYNOPSlS: Your Supply Chain Roadmap IDC’s Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In the mid-term, the predictions trend around sustainability, visibility, and connectivity as organizations build capabilities to achieve long-term competitive advantage and new business models. Singapore’s largest fully automated cold storage at Tee Jia Food Hub. current trends and focus areas for technology adoption.

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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

COVID and related measures have shown the world the high degree of interdependence of countries for their basic food supply, risks of lean supply chains where inventories in the supply chain have been reduced or eliminated, and the fragility of this global agri-food supply chain architecture to disruptions.

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A chat with Scott Phillips

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Whilst I am Australian born, I was fortunate to have had an educational background spanning 3 continents, Australia, Thailand/Singapore and Denmark. Starting out as a Marketing Intern in Adelaide, Australia for a Fielders Steel Roofing, my international studies lead to an opportunity to work in Singapore in 2005. Scott Phillips.

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Global Production Levels Falling At the End of 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The pivotal turning point in the inventory cycle is a key factor for initiating a recovery. The Caixen China General Manufacturing PMI® , a reflection of either private or SMB businesses was headlined with a sustained improvement in manufacturing conditions. The reported December value of 50.8 was only slightly higher than 50.7

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November Global PMI Reporting Reflects Some Stabilization

Supply Chain Matters

A continued subdued product demand environment and added caution reportedly led to a decline in overall purchasing activity, lower levels of inventory and improved supplier delivery times. Pre -and post inventory levels, however, fell at a weaker rate with European manufacturers reportedly being less aggressive in de-stocking efforts.

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Global Wide Production PMI Levels Unchanged in February 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Morgan indicated in part: “ An improving orders-to-inventory ratio and upward momentum in both new export business and employment all suggest the underlying dynamics of the manufacturing sector are also moving in the right direction. Noted was a sustained rise in production levels and a further drop in backlogs of work.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Quicker declines in finished goods inventories and a softer reduction in pre-production stocks were noted. That followed the December headline of sustained improvement in manufacturing conditions. This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam.