Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. shale or Iran, for example. The United States and Iran have been engaged in indirect nuclear talks in Vienna that could lead to the removal of sanctions on Iranian oil sales. This week’s news will all center on this war.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with a September and Q3-2024 global supply chain assessment focused on reported global wide PMI activity levels. The reported September data provides added reinforcement of a global manufacturing slowdown occurring at the end of Q3-2024. The reported September value declined to 45.0

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Purchasing and supplier management. Transportation. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. KPIs should comprise a handful of metrics that CAN be realistically monitored and reacted to on a continuous basis.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. More than 1.14

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

Iran and Spain were highly infected. For far too long Supply Chain has been considered a back office, transactional functions placing purchasing orders and moving and receiving goods. Taking Total Cost of Ownership Seriously. This Supply Chain mapping must also include your transportation service suppliers. And the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2025

Jonathan Starks , CEO of FTR Transportation Intelligence, observes, “A trade war would be bad for growth, bad for supply chains, [and] bad for consumers.[2] A related strategy to supply chain diversification is relocating manufacturing facilities to reduce transportation costs and shorten supply lines.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service , with supply chain management as one of the focus areas; in October, as reported by Reuters, “IBM, U.S. Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath.

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