Enterra Insights

MAY 4, 2020

To do that companies must look deep into how they manage the most basic mechanisms of their supply chains and operations.” ” Post-pandemic supply chains. They write, “Beyond the immediate need for supplies, questions are being raised about the risk inherent in current supply chain structures.

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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. Supply chain strategy, process, talent and enabling technologies each play important roles. The supply chain supporting the delivery of equipment is the de-facto facilitator of this business model.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are reporting that Ukrainian banks and infrastructure agencies have been suffering through waves of cyber attacks in recent days. Ukraine Conflict and the Supply Chain. In addition to cyber-attacks, the conflict in Ukraine could affect the supply chain in other ways.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. Our last full edition was published on February 14. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. based automakers Ford Motor , General Motors and Stellantis , that the implications would ripple across the industry.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Green supply chain history: The origin of Supply Chain Management can be dated back to the early 20th with Henry Ford who vertically integrates the automotive supply chain and organizational practices. The purpose of going green is shown in the table.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This year, as in the past five years, our supply chain index contributed to the overall ranking of firms in the top 250 best managed companies , as ranked by the Drucker Institute. However, during our current state of supply chain shortages, there are definitely some benefits to owning your own supply chains!

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

During this unprecedented period of non-stop global supply chain disruption, the Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with additional industry specific examples, along with their implications. In this update we highlight General Motors , Nike , and retailer Bed Bath and Beyond. General Motors. billion to $1.9

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The announcement stems from a memo sent from Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen sent yesterday, and subsequently reported by The Wall Street Journal , TechCrunch , GeekWire and other outlets. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 5, 2015

More than a year ago, the Supply Chain Collaborator blog examined the trend toward crowd sourcing and wondered aloud whether an “Uber for commercial shipping” was imminent. Yet, as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal concludes, we are still nowhere near developing a killer app for crowd sourced commercial shipping.

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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. That compares to $9.8 percent to 4.5

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Three commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains made available at the beginning of 2022, and specifically addressing supply chain cost inflation implications.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. A growing number of logistics operators and industry observers see the snarls bottling up supply chains this year extending deep into 2022. Airfreight operations aren’t providing shippers much relief from global supply-chain hardships.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to new product hardware and some services announcements, the lead up to the event has provided some supply chain related news. Manufacturing Support Contrary to the past 2-3 years, the shipping for all four of the new iPhone models is consistently communicated as September 22, with pre-orders now being accepted.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Electric vehicle company Fisker recently issued a going concern warning amid continued production and supply chain challenges. Background In prior Supply Chain Matters commentaries, we have highlighted ongoing production and supply chain challenges related to high profile EV start-ups Rivian Automotive and Lucid.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of prior supply chain management developments we have shared with readers. West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S.

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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. But China is the top concern for supply chain managers. year-on-year in August.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Bottom line: Machine learning makes it possible to discover patterns in supply chain management data by relying on algorithms that quickly pinpoint the most influential factors to a supply networks’ success, while constantly learning in the process. How Machine Learning Is Redefining Supply Chain Management.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It’s been three months already since we published our first regular roundup of supply chain and logistics news—doesn’t time fly? Australia’s continuing weather-driven supply chain problems. While digital twin technology is not new, it has only recently begun to gain ground as a supply chain tool.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses in the Middle East fared well in facing supply chain risks compared to those from other regions, despite reportedly facing a high number of logistics shocks as seen in Africa. They have started earmarking their investments for food supply chain networks since the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports of distribution challenges of updated Covid-19 booster vaccines amid a surge in vaccination needs across the country. Moderna reportedly has shipped millions of doses to support vaccine administration needs as wel l. Across the U.S. ,

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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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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

More grocers operating mean the supply. chain must be able to send them around the country effortlessly, creating an ongoing supply chain devoted solely to getting the turkey from farm to table. It has become the biggest party night of the year, explains The Wall Street Journal , outranking New Year’s Eve!

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 25, 2017

by Bill DuBois This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting , a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management. As a result of technology and big data providing insights about every stage of the supply process, the Supply Chain profession has taken off.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

There are undoubtedly moments when risk managers would like to “take a knee” in order to find respite from the risks their supply chains face. The report points to potential vulnerabilities in a significant percentage of global supply chains. First, supply chains have grown complex and global.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

An article in my local paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , had this interesting quote, “From aerospace to health care to consumer products to toys to medical devices, furniture … what I think you’re going to see is an explosion of use.”. Printers can be a vast source of digital information based on the memory they possess.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Last week, Clint Reiser published an article highlighting our 2022 supply chain predictions. While we have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. This year we have decided to lead with our predictions about the broader supply chain function.

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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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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Such an outcome has significant implications for supply chain sustainability. Is just transition another short-lived buzzword that will have minimal impact on supply chain operations, or is it something more substantial? If this prediction turns out to be true, what are the implications for supply chain sustainability?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of our prior supply chain management published developments we have shared with readers. Supply Chain Driven Inflation Moderates in July. Our previous edition of this series was published on July 28 th.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2022

As businesses report their financial performance for the first quarter of 2022, Supply Chain Matters continues with highlights of select bellwether firms that can be considered a relatively good indicator of ongoing industry supply chain challenges and how senior executives view the remainder of 2022.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ). Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target.

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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. Production growth reportedly was weighted down by ongoing severe supply chain disruptions widespread materials and component shortages. China’s Specific Impact.

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