Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. In our summary and perspectives focused on July 2022 reporting , we opined that July data reinforced a trending toward declining global supply chain production momentum.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Two commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains published at the beginning of 2022. Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Global Supply Chain Pressures Index. Federal Bank of New York. The Prices index declined 0.5

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our monthly highlights commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. The orders-to-inventory ratio fell to another multi-year low last month as excess capacity continued to build at factories. representing a 0.6

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights the latest financial performance from bellwether firms in CPG , online retail, high tech and consumer electronics regarding ongoing supply chain related inflationary cost and supply impacts on performance. Supply chain cost inflation remains prominent. Online Retail.

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Elementum

AUGUST 10, 2015

Super Typhoon Soudelor is set to hit Taiwan and China tomorrow, with a huge potential for supply chain disruption. Update 8/09/2015, 18:03 PST: Tropical Storm Soudelor to Hit South Korea on August 11. Learn what you should expect, and how to best prepare your company’s supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Almost 75 percent of US companies are experiencing capacity shortfalls in their supply chains, due to Coronavirus-linked transport disruptions , a new study has shown. With some 5 million companies impacted by China’s supply chain woes, the picture is similar in other parts of the world. The Auto Industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights past comments from Akio Toyoda, former CEO and now Chairman of Toyota Motor , and now the potential realization of what he predicted. Industry Headwinds Supply Chain Matters has featured multiple automotive industry transformation specific commentaries of the past several months.

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Resilinc

JULY 26, 2022

Despite the signs that global supply chains are rebalancing, shortages and delays of important components continue to weigh on revenues in some segments, such as PCs and smartphones. Strengths and weaknesses of PC makers’ supply chains varied by geographies, and those regional variations strongly influenced revenues for some firms.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported July 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Further indicated were signs of weakness occurring in China , Japan , Malaysia, South Korea , Taiwan and Vietnam. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Containers are piling up in ports, international shipping has been hammered, Western companies are battling to source products from traditional suppliers, and disruptions are being experienced throughout the global supply chain. And, according to some analysts, things could get worse—a whole lot worse! COVID-19 Impact on Shipping.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In mainland China (and even in other countries that celebrate the holiday such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei), the Chinese New Year holiday is a very big deal. Get prepared for the year of the rat with the best kind of red envelope, keeping your business in stock of inventory!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Inventory Turnover Breakthrough … Go Back To The Basics! Change is inevitable in modern supply chain management, and risk management is essential to success. Poor grasp of hazards in your supply chain will increase freight spend and diminish brand value. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Economic Instability.

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The pharma supply chain can be incredibly complex with new molecular entities taking as long as a decade to get to market. Which means lost revenues and inventory that must be written off. Let’s look at a recent example of a seemingly simple complication that could ultimately foil cold chain supply for pharma.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 14, 2020

Although this is not the first or the last event to disrupt global supply chains, unpredictable logistics require a proactive approach for importers and exporters to keep business running as usual. Given this continued volatility, global importers are eager to restock their inventory. Assessment of inventory levels.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Are you attending the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference later this month (September 25-28 in Orlando, FL)? Many products are within the category of optimizers for supply chain needs. Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones (TechCrunch).

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20Cube Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2022

One more trend that has been highlighted to take place in Asian supply chain is that of a cooling inventory drive. The manufacturers also catered to this demand well with their robust supply chain dynamics. Asia is a booming market and a major supplier of electronic goods. International Travel Policies.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Supply Chain Dependencies. Few countries in the world can match the economies of scale and sophisticated supply chain that China has perfected. Supply Chains Will Be Redefined. In 2019 global supply chains will pivot slowly away from China and make inroads into other nations with a manufacturing base.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Locus

MARCH 28, 2022

South Korea’s beauty retailer Style Nanda has been leveraging this tactic. Having frozen and refrigerated sections can fulfil the demands of the cold supply chain for groceries online orders. Community marketing enables shoppers to enlist others’ help in making purchase decisions.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This challenge has been also impacted by the growing discontent on the part of retailers and customers who are unhappy with the trend towards larger slow-steaming ships, which leaves more inventory on the water for a longer period of time.

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Logility

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We know our clients need more and more ways to take control of their supply chain operations, end to end. Check out four of the areas we’re advising our clients to be thinking about heading into the New Year, to help prepare their supply chain for 2023. . Germany, South Africa, and South Korea were abundant in 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. However, the published index indicated expansion level was rather mild, and was missing PMI data from South Korea which experienced a slight PMI contraction.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In today’s ever-changing business environment, supply chain planners have a challenging task at hand. They need to understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and align short- and long-term supply chain plans to maximize market share and revenue targets. Consider External Variables at Scale.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 23, 2024

Accomplished procurement veteran and author Tom Linton provides valuable insights into the supply chain risk management landscape in 2024 in this exclusive Q&A. As we move into the new year, there are many questions on our minds about the future of the supply chain. Tom: Supply chains are about time.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 9, 2020

These figures indicate the extent of Australia’s exposure to the severe supply chain disruption being experienced in China, following the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic in December. As with exports, the Chinese lockdowns and quarantines have disrupted Australia’s inbound supply chains and played havoc with imports.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Truckers strike in Korea roils shipments from steel to autos. Overstock is ready to take advantage of inventory glut. GM continues to invest in 3D printing, and it should be an ongoing part of its supply chain processes. In case you haven’t heard, there is an inventory glut that is becoming problematic for some retailers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. The years of 2020 and 2021 presented unprecedented pandemic and other related challenges to industry and global supply chains. October 6, 2021.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

We believe that the CPG commercial world is already taking several actions to adapt to the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic. In the supply chain, visibility involves status reporting from suppliers, through the production&distribution infrastructure and all the way down to the shelf level.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

We believe that the CPG commercial world is already taking several actions to adapt to the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic. In the supply chain, visibility involves status reporting from suppliers, through the production&distribution infrastructure and all the way down to the shelf level.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 30, 2017

Entire warehouses full of products, as well as significant links in the global supply chain could be affected, as well as transport and other nodes. ” The challenge for analytics is to be able to map supply chains that are dependent on a single geography, and this would be important to prepare for risk.

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Vinculum

JUNE 8, 2020

Tech-trend #1 – AI Powered Supply Chain Management. A research assesses how AI is used in existing operational processes to revamp them and hence, cost-effective supply chain solutions is getting facilitated. A key role will aptly be played by these tech-trends we are looking at –.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

Hence the companies Bugaboo and Foss have both faced considerable challenges, as they revealed during the recent ‘Supply Chain Opportunities in China’ seminar in Amsterdam on 24 June 2015. The products have to take a detour through Hong Kong instead,” says Henk-Jan Groeneveld, Global Supply Chain Director at Bugaboo.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. While the Tokyo Olympics are being postponed, but heroes of a different calling are assembling together daily to achieve medal-worthy feats in keeping the base-line global supply chain operating.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In August, President Biden hosted the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David, bringing the three countries together in a bid to further encourage collaboration and innovation. The shifting numbers could be seen at the Port of Los Angeles, where cargo volume increased for the second consecutive month compared to 2022.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. While the Tokyo Olympics are being postponed, but heroes of a different calling are assembling together daily to achieve medal-worthy feats in keeping the base-line global supply chain operating.

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