Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

Both Business Network CNBC and The Wall Street Journal , cited data from Cox Automotive indicating that sales of new vehicles in the U.S. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , the apparel maker is having to pay five times more in ocean container movements rates from pre-pandemic levels. billion to $1.9

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AUGUST 24, 2022

In separate reporting, The Wall Street Journal indicated that one ongoing challenge has been recruiting the needed skilled and unskilled production workers required to match skill standards that are present in China. Apple declined to comment on either the Bloomberg or Wall Street Journal published reports.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Published reports from The Wall Street Journal and other industry and Asia focused outlets continue to indicate that Apple has accelerated plans to source hardware products in other Asia based regions in addition to China. That has been the case in Vietnam, and the looking glass will be in India in 2023.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

“More than 70% of the world’s population currently living on implicated land are in just eight Asian countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. 4] Andy Marks, “ Climate Change Risks and Challenges for the C-Suite ,” The Wall Street Journal , 30 September 2019. [5]

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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. A downturn within Vietnam ’s manufacturing sector reportedly weakened to a five-month low of 47.3

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

Our commentary reiterated that over the last three years there were reports indicating that Apple was instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam , with the former garnering the most attention.

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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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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Home Depot To Offer Same Day Delivery ( Wall Street Journal ). Retailers Turn Store Clerks Into Web Shippers ( Wall Street Journal ). Japan Impasse Dogs Pan-Pacific Trade Talks ( Wall Street Journal ). and global trade dominated the news this week, so let’s take a look. XPO Logistics Agrees to Acquire NLM. imports and exports.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Separately, The Wall Street Journal reported that China’s economy grew 3.9 The S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® declined to 50.6 percent during Q3 , more strongly than expected. This was reportedly a marked improvement from the 0.4 percent year-over-year growth reported for Q2 but remained below the 4.8 reported for September.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In its reporting, The Wall Street Journal cited data from Counterpoint Research indicating that: “ Since 2019, the company has boosted iPhone revenue by more than 44% despite shipments only advancing 15% in roughly the same period.”

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Professor Lee has served on the editorial boards of many international journals and serves on the National Academy of Engineering. Nike manufacturers are based in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. If the fabric is sourced in China but processed in Vietnam, will it count as being made in Vietnam? Take clothing, for example.

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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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Kinaxis

AUGUST 10, 2015

As the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports , new rules recently announced by British lawmakers will require companies “to give an annual disclosure detailing efforts to root out slavery and human trafficking in their global supply chains.” Or at least, they’re trying to.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Wall Street Journal has reported ( Paid subscription ) that large U.S. companies doing business in China are growing increasingly pessimistic that any post pandemic boom will materialize.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

Apple has for the past two years, begin shifting some of its contract manufacturing capacity for certain models of iPhones outside of China to areas such as Vietnam and India. He additionally indicated that the company is now making deliberate decisions about where to invest in the coming months.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

Punishing deadlines, budget cuts and unwanted advances made her journalism career a dim reality from what she pictured when she graduated from a prestigious school of journalism. You might want to check out other regional manufacturing hubs if you’re doing clothing (Bangladesh and Vietnam) or leather goods and shoes (Vietnam).

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Most impacted are Asian exporters such as China, Vietnam, and Malaysia where rigorous policies to contain any COVID-19 outbreaks are leading to factory and port shutdowns. and the capacity of sparsely vaccinated manufacturing countries to meet it,” reported the Wall Street Journal on August 25. Other countries are far behind.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 14, 2016

However, a report in the Sourcing Journal on 8 Aug 2016 “Cheap Clothing Created Some of the World’s Richest People” mentioned how owners of major apparel brands and retailers became billionaires through the apparel business.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2023

We referenced published reports from both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal in reports indicating that contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group has plans to invest $700 million in a new production facilities in India. The report specially highlighted Apple AirPods producer GoerTek Inc.

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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. Vietnam is business-friendly, but it doesn’t have enough skilled workers. India has a large labor force, but infrastructure is patchy. Mexico is near the 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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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Other recent factors exacerbating the delays include the Suez Canal blockage, COVID-19 outbreaks at shipping hubs in Southern China as well as factories in Vietnam and Bangladesh, and floods in Western Europe and China’s Henan province.” Shortages of longshoreman, truck drivers and warehouse workers have also slowed the flow of goods.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 20, 2022

In a separate article, they note, “Everywhere you look, supply chains are being transformed, from the $9trn in inventories, stockpiled as insurance against shortages and inflation, to the fight for workers as global firms shift from China into Vietnam. ” Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals, 6 June 2022. [4]

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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. That’s why new thinking is required. Transforming Supply Chains.

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Resilinc

MARCH 29, 2022

Half the city will be under lockdown for four days while officials conduct a testing blitz before imposing the same measures in the rest of the city, according to the Wall Street Journal. A common theme is renewed financial distress for many of the small- and medium-sized enterprises that are critical for supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Over the last three years Supply Chain Matters has highlighted various published reports of Apple instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam. What apparently was missing is what specific challenges that entailed.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week: “Automotive value chains are international. struck Vietnam. An interruption in delivery of parts from a partner in Europe can therefore also have implications in China,” said [Markus Duesmann, BMW board member in charge of purchasing and supplier network].

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 18, 2016

As reported by Jun Hungo in the Wall Street Journal : Toyota said it would gradually halt vehicle production this week at most of its plants in Japan because of a shortage of components following the Kumamoto quakes. struck Vietnam. These earthquakes are also a reminder of how natural disasters can disrupt supply chains.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 12, 2022

Across the 25 countries and territories that participated in PwC’s survey, ESG factors had the most influence on shopping behaviors in India, the Philippines, and Vietnam, and with the least impact in Japan, France, and Hong Kong. Many of today’s consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable product s.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Leach, “Piracy Costs Shipping Industry Billions,” Journal of Commerce, 19 April 2011. [2] 2] Drew Hinshaw and Daniel Michaels, “ On the High Seas, a Pillar of Global Trade Is Under Attack ,” The Wall Street Journal, 1 February 2024. [3] Footnotes [1] Peter T.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

As pointed out in a recent Economist Intelligence Unit report , while Mexico’s production costs are competitive with Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia—and lower than China’s and Taiwan’s—Taiwan and South Korea dominate the critical semiconductor industry, “leaving little industrial foundation in Mexico on which to build [chip production].”.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

These past few weeks, business media, namely Bloomberg , The Wall Street Journal and other publications have been reporting that U.S. The second aspect of this movement are media reports indicating that Apple has informed its major contract manufacturers that is wants to boost product sourcing outside of China , preferably India or Vietnam.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal indicates that for Europe based automakers Tesla and Volvo Cars , the impacts have started. Shippers assessing shipping from China, India or Vietnam to either U.S. Logistics teams assessing options and related costs in shipping from Asia to Europe or from Europe to U.S. West Coast or U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We have highlighted various published reports over the last three years of Apple instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam. There were certainly opportunities presented not only involving India and Vietnam , but Eastern Europe and the U.S.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 3, 2018

Tariffs adding cost to food production” trumpets the headline in the Wall Street Journal. But China has quietly closed a trading loophole that for years allowed large volumes of American almonds to be transported into the country through Vietnam without incurring import taxes.”.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Apart from China, it includes Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and 10 Southeast Asian nations, from Indonesia and Vietnam to Thailand and Singapore. 4] Jon Emont and Alastair Gale, “ Asia-Pacific Countries Sign Major Trade Pact in Test for Biden ,” The Wall Street Journal, 15 November 2020. [5] ”[4].

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Supply chain reaction: trade war refugees race to relocate to Vietnam, Thailand (Reuters). Here are some details from the Wall Street Journal : The USMCA still requires ratification in all three countries. So without delay, here are my thoughts about this breaking news and the other headlines that caught my attention this week: U.S.,

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