Supply Chain Brain

JULY 30, 2025

The result has been a "perfect storm of disruptions" for Europes ports, says Heidi Benko, the VP of product management and strategy for cloud software provider Infor. Featured Product Popular Stories Trade Pact with Japan Deals Blow to U.S. Auto Industry Global Supply Chain Management New U.S.

Europe

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 13, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories From Ballots to Bargaining: The Struggle to Unionize at Amazons Warehouses HR & Labor Management USDA Looks to Use Invasive Catfish to Boost Food Supply Chains Business Strategy Alignment DoD to Loan $150M to U.S.

Brazil

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 11, 2025

Through this loan, we are taking decisive action to restore our domestic critical minerals supply chain, revive our industrial base, and rebuild our military," said Emil Michael, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Rare Earth Miner MP Materials Biden Pledges $35 Million to Boost U.S. Rare Earth Extraction U.S.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 1, 2025

If the new levies go ahead in seven days as planned, and if deals on car tariffs with the European Union, Japan and South Korea stick, Bloomberg Economics estimates the average U.S. The EU, Japan and South Korea — all with 15% rates — also come off better than feared. tariff rate will rise to 15.2% before Trump took office.

Negotiate Pricing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Trump’s letters on July 7 targeted countries including Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Global Supply Chain Management Argentina: A New Opportunity in Latin America’s Industrial Sector Global Supply Chain Management U.S.-Swiss

Brazil

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 5, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. If the new levies go ahead as planned and if deals on car tariffs with the European Union, Japan and South Korea stick, Bloomberg Economics estimates the average US tariff rate will rise to 15.2% from 13.3% - up significantly from just 2.3% before Trump took office. What do you say?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 6, 2025

supply chain for the magnets, which are crucial for internal combustions engines, electric-vehicle motors and other key parts. Company Seeks to Reduce China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Production Japan and Saudi Arabia Expected to Agree on Rare-Earth Investment Deal Lawmakers Seek to Curb U.S.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 30, 2025

Chief executive officer Jim Farley said the Trump Administration’s recent trade deal with Japan to lower tariffs to 15% from 25% has handed competitors such as Toyota Motor Corp. a large cost advantage over Ford, when Japan’s lower labor and currency costs are factored in. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Expense Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 30, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Trade Pact with Japan Deals Blow to U.S. Auto Industry Global Supply Chain Management Tariffs Threaten to Raise Costs Across U.S. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Forecasting

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 8, 2025

Will Correct Extremely Regrettable Tariff Error Japan Says U.S. Will Correct 'Extremely Regrettable' Tariff Error Kobe beef comes exclusively from Japan. But Japan was instead assigned a “stacked” tariff on top of existing ones, that raised tariffs on items such as its beef exports to the U.S. percent to 41.4

Japan

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

Strike New Deal over Trade Rules in Northern Ireland Trump Announces Trade Deal with Japan U.S., Featured Product Popular Stories Climate Crisis Has Caused Food Price Spikes Global Supply Chain Management Survey: Consumers Pull Back on Spending After Tariffs, End of De Minimis Global Logistics U.S.

Negotiate Pricing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 30, 2025

Like deals with the European Union and Japan, the U.S. India’s 25% tariff rate is higher than the 20% secured by Vietnam, 19% for Indonesia and 15% for Japan, putting India at a competitive disadvantage. Featured Product Popular Stories Trade Pact with Japan Deals Blow to U.S.

Russia

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2025

Marrying Bitcoin and MonaCoin: Japan’s Native Cryptocurrency Explored! Risk Management and Value at Risk (VaR) Value at Risk (VaR) is a critical risk management metric. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on November 16, 2023. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

Modeling Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Auto Industry Trade Pact with Japan Deals Blow to U.S. automakers say that the Trump administrations recent trade agreement with Japan puts American companies and workers at a disadvantage , as they now face higher tariffs than their Japanese competitors. Auto Industry Photo: iStock / BalkansCat July 24, 2025 SupplyChainBrain U.S.

Japan

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 12, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories USDA Looks to Use Invasive Catfish to Boost Food Supply Chains Business Strategy Alignment GM Signs Domestic Rare-Earth Deal to Reduce Reliance on China Global Trade & Economics Designing the Future: Smarter AI for Last-Mile Logistics Logistics Japan Says U.S.

Europe

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 6, 2025

The budget carrier has tried to offset weakness in Japan by expanding in Southeast Asia, South Korea and China. is doubling down on its long-haul expansion with the first purchase of Boeing Co. widebody aircraft in a dozen years, while it struggles closer to home, with its HK Express unit suffering from a sharp drop in regional demand.

Procurement Analytics

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, and L’Oréal’s approach to business that has allowed the company to continuously rank as a Supply Chains to Admire winner for four consecutive years. Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

This week, I will speak at Llamasoft’s conference on improving supply chain network design. One of the reports that I am writing is on the state of Supply Chain Planning (SCP). In the recent study of the Voice of the Supply Chain Leader , we find that the gaps are large, and growing.

Case Study

Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.

Case Study

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

If you’re a supply chain or logistics executive and you’re looking for ways to improve as a leader this year, here are my five recommendations: 1. Supply chain management is risky business — and the risks are growing every day. whenever you’re discussing supply chain strategy or decisions. more often.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Companies need to be fully aware of global climate change conversations and how they will impact their supply chain in the near future. It currently has no limits on truck emissions, unlike other countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Canada, which already have truck fuel efficiency standards.

Cost Reduction Strategies

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.

Material Savings

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2024

The bank said Friday that it is launching new “Supply Availability Indexes” via a blog posting on Monday that going forward will feature as part of its regular monthly surveys of regional business activity. The new gauges can be joined with the bank’s monthly Global Supply Chain Pressures Index “to compare trends in the U.S

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Kinaxis

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Here are some common themes based on the presentations and the conversations I had with the event attendees: Organizations are looking to digital supply chains as a differentiator. With increased complexity and volatility in global supply chains, the ability to respond quickly to supply chain disruptions is becoming very critical.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Kinaxis

MARCH 2, 2017

by Melissa Clow Frequent Kinaxis blogger Madhav Durbha was recently honored as a Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘ Pro to know ’. Madhav’s experience and educational background show his passion and enthusiasm for supply chain and the role it plays in making the world a better place. Check out his responses.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Unleashed

JANUARY 31, 2023

Supply chain disruptions are the enemy of product businesses. Lean logistics is a strategy designed to optimise supply chain efficiency by cutting out waste and maximising customer value. Product companies implement lean logistics to eliminate downtime in the supply chain and give customers better value.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Like any industry, in Supply Chain and Logistics we have a lot of Acronyms and Abbreviations. 4PL 4th Party Logistics – A step beyond 3PL, 4PL providers manage the entire supply chain for a client. 5 S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) A workplace organization method originating from Japan.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

This and much more, in your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva. Supply Chain News. Supply Chain Strategy. Is Integrated Supply Chain Planning Rubbish? Supply Chain Analyst, Lora Cecere, takes a look at what it to implement a fully integrated supply chain planning process.

Sourcing Strategies

6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

Warehousing

USC Consulting Group

JUNE 18, 2019

This makes sense considering that they both emerged from the same location: the original Toyota Motor Company production plant located in Toyota, Japan. Imai cataloged, organized, and formalized the strategies deployed at Toyota and published them in his landmark 1986 book, “Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success.”

Waste Reduction

Aera Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In my previous role as Vice President of Supply Chain, I saw just how abruptly things can go awry in pharma supply chains. It took us almost two weeks to fully assess how the global supply chain would be impacted. Would there be a stockout? If so, for how long? This CIO Magazine interview with H.D.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. Further, Japan based shipping line Mitsui OSK Lines indicated a belief that this disruption could extend thru the balance of 2024.

Transportation

4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

C3Nano is a material technology company developing and manufacturing transparent conductive films, the main component in all touch sensors used in phones, tablets, and more. So C3Nano is a venture-backed technology company. And we’re a material technology company. Why a leader needs to be a mentor… and be mentored.

Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

C3Nano is a material technology company developing and manufacturing transparent conductive films, the main component in all touch sensors used in phones, tablets, and more. So C3Nano is a venture-backed technology company. And we’re a material technology company. Why a leader needs to be a mentor… and be mentored.

Manufacturing

Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 15, 2018

The $7.5bn Kemper power plant once drew officials from as far as Saudi Arabia, Japan and Norway to marvel at a 21st-century power project so technologically complex its builder compared it to the moonshot of the 1960s. It’s promise? Energy from “clean coal.” “I’m

Saudi Arabia

6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global supply chain disruptions, impacting the flow of parts and finished goods around the world. The disruption caused by COVID-19 is unique in that it impacted supply chains across all industries.

Supply Chain Planning Software