Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Background Supply chain ethical and social responsibility, that which umbrellas ESG conformance, have increasingly become a concern for businesses, large and small, along with their procurement organizations. Reportedly, the vast majority of detained goods were produced in either Malaysia, Vietnam or Thailand.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2023

According to reports by Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal , the perceived weak Q2 number provides added evidence of muted retail sales, a degrading export market and a deepening property market slump. The recent Q2 GDP number is below the average 8 percent to 9 percent growth levels prior to the global pandemic. percent compared to 12.7

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China de-risking sourcing actions. For those businesses located in the U.S., the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In its reporting highlighting November PMI reporting, The Wall Street Journal observed : “ Together, the surveys show that China’s economy is in need of more government help to avoid a pronounced year-end slowdown, economists say. However, new export orders reportedly fell, linked mostly to continued subdued global product demand conditions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China Plus sourcing actions. The diversification, which some experts call multishoring, also reflects a stark new reality: The world is a far more complicated place to do business than it was a decade ago.”

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Enterra Insights

MAY 16, 2022

Peck and Marino quote Wall Street Journal columnist Christopher Mims ( @mims ), who notes, “There’s no such thing as ‘the supply chain’ — there are only an infinitude of supply chains. McCrea reports, in response to the current situation, “some companies are procuring materials from more U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

The alternative supply chain or “ Altasian” is defined as countries consisting of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, the Philippines , Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh.

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