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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

Can you identify all your suppliers in the supply chain? A recent Quality Digest article suggested that “ethical supply chain management is being fueled by consumer demand, profitability, and visibility. All top 100 companies in Japan and Mexico produce an annual sustainability report. and across Europe.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. Yet, voices of realism are vitally important as corporations redesign their post-COVID supply networks. One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W.

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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.

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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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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.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 27, 2020

You can’t really rank crypto exchanges unless you’re ranking by very specific metrics. Although it is also available in the US, Canada, and even Japan, among many other European countries. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Cryptocurrencies Beyond Bitcoin! Some clearly win in terms of transaction volume.

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Elementum

AUGUST 17, 2017

President Bush imposed tariffs of up to 30% on steel imported from Japan and the European Union (EU) which cost 200,000 jobs in steel-involved industries, with the unemployment rate being at 6% by the end of 2002. Supply Chain Implications. It’s also interesting to note that the U.S. or 95% of their consumer market.

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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

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

Based in Silicon Valley, they’re fully scaled in California but have operations in China and South Korea, giving Cliff an up-close perspective on offshore manufacturing, supply chain, and more. And so now, on one hand, I think we’re ahead of the curve when it comes to managing strung out supply chains. Mike: Right.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

Based in Silicon Valley, they’re fully scaled in California but have operations in China and South Korea, giving Cliff an up-close perspective on offshore manufacturing, supply chain, and more. And so now, on one hand, I think we’re ahead of the curve when it comes to managing strung out supply chains. Mike: Right.

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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.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Challenge: How to Quantify Supply Chain Disruption. The term “supply chain disruption” has entered our collective vocabulary in a way few could have imagined three years ago. GSCPI: A Single Index Measuring End to End Supply Chain Stress. Where to Learn More. Contact Us.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Supply Chain Disruptions: A Survival Guide. Do you feel supply chain risk management is too complicated to implement? This article will show you how one of the worlds leading companies put a theory into practice and survive many supply chain disruptions. 2011: Earthquake/Tsunami in Japan. Discussion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Demand uncertainty does make it much more difficult for a supply chain to respond to customers’ orders. Prior to that he had worked in the storage industry as a director of supply chain at EMC. In many ways, Mr. Fitzgerald said, “it was still a startup supply chain when I joined.”

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Unleashed

APRIL 15, 2020

To help you understand the importance of tracking this metric we’ll illustrate several ways the value of your stock can change. These changes may be due to exchange rate movements, disrupted supply chains, obsolescence, damage or spoilage. A key metric in inventory revaluation is Net Realisable Value.

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Unleashed

APRIL 3, 2020

To help you understand the importance of tracking this metric we’ll illustrate several ways the value of your stock can change. These changes may be due to exchange rate movements, disrupted supply chains, obsolescence, damage or spoilage. A key metric in inventory revaluation is Net Realisable Value.

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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

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a monthly highlights of reported January 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Output reportedly rose in China , India and Brazil and fell more slowly in the Eurozone , Japan and the United States. All rights reserved.

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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.

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Material Handling & Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

million metric tons and aluminum imports by 669,000 tons, according to the Commerce Department. Those volumes represent less than 1% of world steel supply outside the U.S. Still, the direct impact on Japanese steelmakers should be limited given the small volumes the country sends to the U.S., the brokerage said. businesses.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Supply Chain KPIs are Essential – The Right Ones! Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Supply Chain KPI Tips. All you need to know about Supply Chain KPIs. Supply Chain KPI. Which ones to use?…

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Like corporate initiatives to reduce supply chain greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the GHG-based import tariffs being discussed by the United States and European Union are still progressing. The Journal also reports that Japan, the UK, and Canada have begun exploring carbon tariffs.

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