The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. For example, companies can track products throughout the entire lifecycle with RFID and GPS sensors.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Background. and Chinese based high tech electronics providers.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In our prior highlights and perceptions of September and October published indices , we observed that the numbers once again signaled continued contraction in global manufacturing output and product demand levels. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. in November.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

Diversify your supplier base Single sourcing presents a huge risk for companies in all industries, especially as geopolitical disruptions are on the rise. The goal is to be able to trace individual parts to the exact site where they are manufactured. Picture this: a critical part of your product is only made in one factory in Taiwan.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In the age of e-commerce, the digital path to purchase has a side trail called “Returns.” ” Journalist Suzanne Kapner reports, “The share of online purchases that are returned averages 30% or higher, depending on the category, three times the rate in physical stores.”[1] Return the Item to the Manufacturer.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

According to a published report by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ), this asset light company has recently elected to transition its business model to an auto dealership based vehicle distribution model. Shipping new vehicles from Austria to the U.S. based dealer network.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Shipping container shortage article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. The massive global shipping squeeze. In their story about the shipping shortage, the CBC quoted shipping analyst Alan Murphy, who detailed how this changing demand has massively disrupted the global shipping market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. In my 68 years on this planet, I have never seen such deep discounts. My take away?

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 2, 2019

He was hired as a purchasing agent and was directed to obtain some procurement training at a local certificate mill.[1] 1] “During the first few hours,” he writes, “we went over the pertinent areas of a purchase order. Two-day or same-day shipping is becoming the norm. ” Changing with the times.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5 According to the J.P. value, up from 53.1

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our readers added perspectives on this week’s reports indicating that Apple has initiated plans for production of the upcoming new model iPhone14 to be sourced from both China and India. Apple declined to comment on either the Bloomberg or Wall Street Journal published reports.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 28, 2023

The cost of sales metric is most commonly used in the retail and eCommerce industries, whereas manufacturing businesses typically calculate profitability using the cost of goods sold formula instead. It includes employee wages and any shipping costs of the finished product. It only relates to those products you have sold.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides another update on ongoing strategic sourcing and operational developments occurring among electric vehicle focused supply and production networks. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal , a Texas site could begin pilot refining operations as early as the fourth quarter of this year.,

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Included in this update is a report indicating that Apple has commenced production of the newly released iPhone14 in India, ahead of schedule, that the global shipping boom has now been declared over by one financial publication, and that the EU is seeking emergency supply network powers to prioritize deemed essential production.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. International journal of production economics (Vol.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

.” In other words, companies with the foresight to see consumers were increasingly taking the digital path to purchase were much better situated to serve customers when the pandemic forced almost everyone to become an online shopper. Manufacturers, however, are also getting more involved. The rush to omnichannel operations.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 13, 2021

However, it is also noteworthy here that many of the companies in the top 10 do not manufacture anything, but outsource their manufacturing to “contract manufacturers” such as Flex, TSMC, FoxConn, ThermoFisher, and others. The remainder largely rely on third parties to do so.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Image source: Bloomberg. Higher container costs , resulting in container-by-container decisions on what to ship. Image source: American Journal of Transportation. Macro Supply Chain Issues Caused a Ripple Effect. Container availability , leaving importers scrambling to find space. But they’re primarily not new challenges.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Mike Beckham, CEO of bottle and travel mug manufacturer Simple Modern, told the Wall Street Journal that a major Chinese supplier in Quzhou City had been forced to cut its workweek to four days and trim its electricity usage by a third. The world’s largest exporter since 2009, Chinese producers shipped $2.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The organization is not clear on accepting special requests and expedited shipping policies, often resulting in a lower margin. Dan, new to the job, failed to remove the shipping bolts from the back of the washer. Starbucks redesigned their cups for the Grande product, and the flimsy cups were a source of constant spills and burns.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J.P. remains unclear.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Supply Chain Matters has provided readers multiple commentaries focused on the shifting forces, both geo-political and industry generated, that are now providing short and longer-term impacts on the sourcing of semiconductor manufacturing and associated networks. policy toward shipping technology to China since the 1990’s.”.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Laura Kelly jointly announced yesterday that the state of Kansas will be a new location for a proposed US-based lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility, pending approval by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Board of Directors. Other battery manufacturers that have elected to invest in U.S. location. is critical to help meet demand.”

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Until now, Turkey’s economy has grown steadily since the pandemic due to a surge in exports and tourism caused by disruptions and weak currency in Asian supply chains according to the Wall Street Journal. Many steel manufacturers have also suspended operations. And supplier confirmation is essential to resiliency.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

West Coast dockworkers incurring job actions that are hindering container ship unloading among various port terminals. But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. The existing labor contract expired on July 1, 2022.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 4, 2020

From the outset, key lessons related to knowing the supply chain were at the forefront — not just the final link but key sources of supply related to materials, having contingency plans for interruption of supply, and understanding the capabilities and vulnerabilities of critical elements within the value chain.”[4]. ”[4]. .”[5]

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

Added Manufacturing Disruption in China. Last week after a series of manufacturing and product design flaws impacted the deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft since 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way to resume airline deliveries of previously ordered aircraft.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). Cyber Insurance Becomes a Must for More Manufacturers (WSJ – sub. Source: Amazon patent. And the garage door company is coming this morning to replace the crumpled door.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The New First Moment of Truth: Can We Ship It Profitably? In this age of free shipping, it seems that for online orders, there’s a new first moment of truth: can we ship it profitably? Previously, the retailer would ship those items, regardless of distance or shipping cost.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Carriers and logistics services providers experienced windfall profit levels in their ability to leverage the constant disruptions and ship deployment imbalances into skyrocketing spot rates, added services fees, surcharges or demurrage penalties. Barclays in-turn cut 2023 earnings estimates for Maersk and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 16, 2022

A report published by Fortune i ndicates that the FDA found additional problems at the Abbott facility and that the company: “ did not ensure that all surfaces that contacted infant formula were maintained to protect infant formula from being contaminated by any source.” “ U.S. “ U.S. Latest Developments.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 30, 2015

Jeff Tucker 's guest column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal pointed to the pivotal role of technology, including DAT Load Boards , in freight logistics today. If it works for taxi passengers, why not for shipping? Jeff also highlighted the contribution of freight brokers to the efficient movement of cargo.

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