Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the United States and Western Europe, on the other hand, rising labour and transportation costs are resulting in brand-owners looking to countries closer to home for low-cost manufacturing and procurement opportunities.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Supply chain processes include procurement from source to pay, together with inbound logistics, production, quality control, outbound logistics and post-sales service. Direct material management oversees the sourcing, procurement, storage, and flow of raw materials, components, and subassemblies.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

Reported April 24 Over 60% of our business is from products that are manufactured, bagged, assembled or grown in the United States and only 12% of our business is direct imports. Recall, we purchased targeted additional inventory in late fiscal '25 and early fiscal '26, ahead of tariffs. Christopher J. Christopher J.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 13, 2025

Offers national pallet management services, acting as a single source for pallet supply, retrieval, and tracking. In December 2008, the United States Senate agreed to a resolution that designated December 13, 2008, as Wreaths Across America Day. Bettaway Pallet Systems, Inc.: Bettaway Beverage Distributors, Inc.:

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QAD

APRIL 9, 2025

This is compounded by the fact that many raw materials are sourced from a limited number of suppliers and regions. Beyond the well-documented API sourcing problems, shortages in excipients, packaging materials (including vials and syringes), and electronic components for medical devices also contribute to delays.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We predicted that “ direct materials sourcing strategies will continue to include needs for future growth markets for products and services along with business supply network sustainability needs from either a business resiliency or sustainability commitment lens. supply chain activity. This shift is marked by a decline in direct U.S.

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IQMS

AUGUST 5, 2022

The United States Environmental Protection Agency ‘s definition is “sustainable manufacturing is the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

Source: Various published PMI reporting, 2024 and compiled by Ferrari Consulting and Research Group LLC This same global wide indicator ended 2023 at a value of 48.8 United States The two followed indices of U.S. The consumer goods sector was contrasted with output rising for the seventeenth consecutive month.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 9, 2025

As always, our goal is to use our significant scale, combined with the uniqueness and flexibility of our assortment to secure the lowest landed cost on the products we source and provide our customers with compelling products at a great relative value. So we are focused on agility and on improving that agility. Winifred Y. We are looking.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 8, 2025

Brent Kirby – President Given the uncertainties surrounding current trade deliberations, we would not anticipate significant country of origin changes in our sourcing in the near term. As an example, in 2025, we will be relocating production of 500 toy SKUs from China to other sourcing locations. tariffs were enacted.

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QAD

MAY 22, 2025

Having said that, you should also consider developing alternative sourcing strategies. One critical component is aligning production planning and inventory with demand. This will allow you to better predict future demand and modify your production and inventory strategies to match. Imagine you are based in the United States.

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crisp

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Retail data is a necessary foundation for CPG operations and decision-making, providing suppliers with crucial visibility into real-time retail and inventory movements across thousands of touchpoints. Imagine not just asking questions like, “What was the impact of our latest promotion on inventory across distribution centers?”

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EFT

JULY 15, 2025

How US buyers of critical minerals bypass China's export ban Unusually large quantities of antimony - a metal used in batteries, chips and flame retardants - have poured into the United States from Thailand and Mexico since China barred U.S. EU to push for deal with U.S, has a simple strategy to deal with U.S.

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EFT

JUNE 23, 2025

European truckmakers tackle rare-earths bottleneck with stockpiling, supply chain shifts European truckmaker Volvo Group has been seeking alternative sources of rare earths and Daimler Trucks has been building inventories to deal with supply issues linked to Chinese export curbs, saying lessons had been learned from the chip crisis.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 27, 2025

A further ongoing development has been the Trump Administration’s threatening of added industry specific tariffs directed at pharmaceutical makers in order to encourage drug producers to produce such popular drugs within the United States. production capabilities. All rights reserved.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2025

Reported May 29 As we continue to navigate tariffs, we're implementing various mitigation strategies, including partnering with our sourcing vendors to reduce costs. Eva Boratto - Chief Financial Officer With respect to inventory, we ended the first quarter with total inventory up 7% to prior year.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

The survey was conducted in May 2025, of a nationally-representative sample of 1,007 adults throughout the United States. consumers, conducted for QR code company, GS1 US , found that 33% of U.S. consumers, conducted for QR code company, GS1 US , found that 33% of U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

When duties render traditional sourcing unprofitable, companies must reconfigure supplier networks, often under tight timelines. These disruptions highlight the fragility of global supply chains, wherein a single policy can trigger a domino effect across continents, affecting inventory management, logistics and customer satisfaction.

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E2open

JULY 3, 2025

License delays and sensitive data requirements push firms to rethink sourcing strategies. License delays and sensitive data requirements are now pushing firms to fundamentally rethink their sourcing strategies. Recycling and alternative materials Recycling may become a preferred way to source rare earth supplies.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 3, 2025

The open question is whether June’s expansion was related solely to inventory pre-loading prior to the imposition of considerably higher global wide tariff levels. Growth reportedly returned within China, Japan and the United States. United States The two followed indices of U.S. in June reflecting a 0.5

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

steel and aluminum on July 21 "to levels consistent with progress that has been made in the broader trading arrangement with the United States." According to a June 19 release, Canada will adjust its counter-tariffs on U.S. As Canada negotiates a new economic and security partnership with the U.S.,

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve in the United States is expected to raise interest rates this week , the first increase since cutting the rate to near zero following the Great Recession in 2008.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Note: The following is an excerpt from “ Omni-Channel Logistics Leaders: Top 5 Inventory Insights ,” based on research conducted by Adelante SCM and LEGACY Supply Chain Services with input from nearly 100 supply chain professionals from retail, manufacturing, and logistics service providers companies in the United States and Canada.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 6, 2019

The research focused on the inventory visibility and optimization challenges that companies face today related to omni-channel fulfillment and the actions they should take to elevate their omni-channel performance. And it begins with improving their inventory accuracy. The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 17, 2022

Jeff Flowers and Joe Lynch discuss why inventory is everything. In his last role at Bluelinx, Jeff was the General Manager of Metal Products Business Unit which generated $250M in revenue sourcing products from 17 different countries serving 18,000 SKUs to national, regional and local building products retailers.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. according to the Walmart Marketplace website. Cargo imported into the U.S. Cargo imported into the U.S.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 13, 2020

If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month. So our main task now is to consolidate all the purchase and inventory decisions in one team. We had to transfer and move inventories from one place to another, trying to save them as much as possible. Decisions were made within 24 hours.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

As I work with teams to envision the new tomorrow, I find fewer people know the basic concepts of manufacturing planning–cycle inventories, freeze duration, slush period, bottlenecks and constraints. And, the service supply chain can be redesigned to have less inventory and more uptime. I feel lucky that I have. Medical Device.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The company aligns channel requirements with available donors and successfully drives bi-directional orchestration programs to manage the reverse bill of materials (red cells and plasma) and demand-shaping campaigns to drive the right donors to the blood drives based on inventory levels. Analyze inventory health.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States. Heading further north along the coast is Savannah, GA, home to the largest single container terminal in the United States. This involved in some cases, diverting some inventory bound for other regions. of total U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

billion yen, supported by robust shipments to the United States as well as a weaker yen, according to the data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Both marine products were supported by growing demand from Japanese restaurants in the United States. percent to 38.7 percent to 20.9 billion yen.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

Apple Inc purchases raw materials from various sources then get them shipped to an assembling plant in China. Inventories can become obsolete or exceed the anticipated demand. Some components are currently obtained from the single or limited sources. Inventory Turnover. Inventory Turnover of Amazon vs Apple Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blockchain Allows Brand Owners and Retailers to Trace Source Materials Ahead of Pending U.S. United States Customs and Border Protection announced on December 2, 2020, personnel at all U.S. Legislation Related to Forced Labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). ATLANTA/MIAMI — December 3, 2020 — Logility, Inc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new system of inventory management will go into effect on March 1, and will replace weekly restock limits that Amazon used for calculating FBA storage. Directors at Amazon agencies and accelerators said that these new changes will help sellers forecast inventory better.

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