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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Logistics Viewpoints

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Your transportation consultant can help develop response strategies to ensure your supply chain continues to operate while the problem is addressed. Capacity constraints and transportation delays.

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How To Overcome Supply Chain Disruption

GlobalTranz

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Your transportation consultant can help develop response strategies to ensure your supply chain continues to operate while the problem is addressed. Capacity constraints and transportation delays.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. That is a positive sign Of continued interest was that India and Thailand indexes (included in our highlights below) reflected the quickest rates of expansion. China’s expansion was noted as marginal by the end of Q1.

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September and Q3 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Enter Contraction Trending

Supply Chain Matters

The orders-to-inventory ratio fell to another multi-year low last month as excess capacity continued to build at factories. Of particular concern, the New Orders sub-index declined more than 4 points, reaching a contraction value in September while the Inventories sub-index was 2.6 percentage points higher. up from a value of 53.7

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August 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices- Declining Momentum Accelerating

Supply Chain Matters

The top three regions exhibiting PMI growth were noted as India, Australia and Thailand. Similarly, raw material inventories are accumulating due to the sudden and unexpected drop in production volumes.”. . Excess inventory levels now remain a more cogent concern particularly among retail industry supply networks. Bob Ferrari.

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Added Headwinds for Global PMI Production Indices in June and Q2 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Noted in the June report was that among the five sub-indexes that constitute the manufacturing PMI , the production index, new order index and supplier delivery time index were all above the 50 threshold, and the raw material inventory index and employee index were all below. for June, compared to a reported value a value of 48.1

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Pioneered the use of vendor-managed inventory. Implemented cross-docking in its supply network to enable inventory reductions. In 2017, the company began to look at new options for warehousing, knowing it would need to start placing inventory closer to customers if it wanted to compete in the challenging omnichannel retail space.