Supply Chain Matters
JUNE 5, 2023
What we found somewhat concerning was the indication that growth in manufacturing production accelerated to an 11-month high in May, and yet important leading indicators such as new business and new export orders have dropped to multi-month lows. That could signal even more added inventory exposures.
BlueYonder
MARCH 6, 2020
A New York Times article from August 2019 highlights how much artificial intelligence (AI) is indebted to humans. Lucky are the companies that can shift production to other countries like Mexico or Vietnam. That is because lots and lots of people are needed to help an AI system learn so that it can eventually act on its own.
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Supply Chain Matters
MARCH 3, 2022
A relatively new index is The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI) , developed by a group of researchers at the U.S. Federal Bank of New York. A country of continued optimism remains that of Vietnam , which has been the go-to country for businesses seeking to manage supply network risk exposure in China.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 21, 2014
These tools are now enabling new capabilities to make trade-offs between volume and cost while helping companies to redesign flows and decoupling points. I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows.
Logistics Bureau
MARCH 19, 2020
The US auto industry is expected to follow suit as stockpiled inventory becomes depleted. Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea. It is also airlifting parts from China to its Vietnam operations. The Food Industry.
Logistics Bureau
MARCH 3, 2020
While the European automakers have managed to cope so far by cannibalising stockpiled inventory, they fear that shortages will soon occur in the supply of critical parts from China, due to the three-to-four week lag in getting back to full capacity in that country. COVID-19 Impact on Shipping.
Gravity Supply Chain
MAY 20, 2022
Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. A world transformed. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 billion metric tons as of 2017.
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