Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

Global Production Continues to Contract Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended 2023 on a noted lackluster footing. Manufacturing production reportedly contracted at a slightly quicker pace in December, dashing hopes for a point of stabilization. The December reading of 49.0

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

These changes can be caused by factors such as natural disasters, political unrest, trade disputes, or disruptions in transportation networks. The scarcity of skilled professionals in areas such as logistics, procurement, and data analytics can hinder the ability to effectively manage and optimize supply chains.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 12, 2013

These are: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (Cambridge, USA), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, Spain), the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (Shah Alam, Malaysia).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel. increase from the previous year, higher than the estimated 18.3%.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This interview is with Raymon Krishnan, President of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society. I then went on to work as a ‘shipper’, for a swiss confectionary manufacturer and then a global IT distributor. I then spent 10 years building up my own Logistics consulting business growing it to where we had close to 70 employees.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 13, 2015

One of the strategies manufacturers and online stores will take is to price their products uniformly across the participating economies. If manufactures and e-stores across any TPPA economy offer similar prices, then the growth will predominantly occur in the ground segment, leaving the airlines wanting.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Prior long-standing assumptions that mature, foreign based supply networks, low-cost labor and predictable global transportation and logistics costs would remain constant were also blown-up by a series of industry dynamics. Geo-Political and Hybrid Government Policy Dimensions. For those businesses located in the U.S.,

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Suhas Bhise (Head of PPC, Logistics and Sourcing, Arvind Limited): At Arvind, we began looking for a new solution because there was a limitation to how much our existing planning system could meet our requirements. It creates a two-sided marketplace for those in the freight transport industries. But today I say, “Why wait?”

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

” The staff at Supply Chain Link notes, “The terms ‘visibility’ and ‘transparency’ are often used interchangeably in the logistics world. Logistics providers market benefits of visibility and transparency, but it has many customers wondering what exactly the difference is between the two terms.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2017

China aims to extend its logistics reach from the Pacific to the Atlantic through its One Belt, One Road initiative. The sheer size of the country’s “One Belt, One Road” logistics initiative, for instance, calls into question the true objective of the regional infrastructure plan. Like the country itself, China’s ambitions are massive.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

The July numbers signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions with output and new order rates reportedly falling at faster rates. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Manufacturing production reportedly decreased for the second consecutive month.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

In early April 2022, economists at Goldman Sachs indicated that supply chain resilience was a top-of-mind topic for manufacturers and retailers and observed that three main strategies were being undertaken. Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China de-risking sourcing actions.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 19, 2015

Good transportation links a logistics strength in China. China’s logistics industry is gaining in importance and developing rapidly to support the nation’s manufacturing sector. The key strengths of the logistics industry in China that emerged from the study include good transportation connectivity and new infrastructure.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Risk management, however, will become a critical skill for logistics and supply chain management in order to make the right supply chain decisions in these turbulent times. E-commerce boom requires a new urban logistics model. The human factor out of manufacturing and logistics. From global to local and regional sourcing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

The company engages in contract manufacturing services for companies. Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. Using a contract manufacturer allows companies to focus on their core competencies, which usually are not designing a product for manufacturing, production, or supply chain management.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 13, 2018

It helps to have a reliable, global logistics provider that understands what’s at stake—a provider that works closely with the organization to meet special industrial logistics requirements. The manufacturers, key suppliers, and customer industries of semiconductor device makers are global, with a strong Asia presence.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

While we’re still sorting through the full text, we wanted to provide you with some background, answer some questions, and offer some insight about what the TPP agreement means for the transportation and logistics industry. Here are the top six questions our customers are asking about the TPP agreement. What is the TPP agreement?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

With Amazon and others going to same day deliveries, the e-commerce boom is making transportation and delivery infrastructure more difficult to navigate. Everybody seems to think that digital devices will somehow reduce all this complexity. Regulatory Requirements Will Grow as Governments Seek to Overcome Shortfalls in Operating Revenue.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 11, 2015

Last week I explained how individual tastes, compounded by geography, climate and less developed distribution and logistics infrastructure challenge beverage manufacturers in Asia. You could either build a new plant in the Philippines or alternate short runs in your existing plants in Malaysia. Let’s start with a scenario.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2017

by 2020 globally, the logistics industry is booming. Logistics, the complex operation involving the movements of people, facilities, and supplies, is applied in every industry from manufacturing to retail to trade. The global logistics market is expected to grow from US $8.1T Hunt Transport Services, C.H.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers a published report noting how various manufacturers are seeking and establishing added resiliency and control of component and production networks. Bloomberg reported in November 2022 that shipments of motor vehicles, computer parts and boats, manufactured in Mexico and destined for U.S.

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Supply Chains Rock

OCTOBER 1, 2008

4 comments: logistics malaysia. Do you have any information on the other interesting albeit more passive RFID in container transportation? About.com - Martins Logistics Blog. EU Logistics Hub Blog. Latin American Logistics. Manufacturing Central. Christopher Sciacca. China Supply Chain Council.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). Consider manufacturing companies: “It used to be—go to China for products, parts, and material. Operations managers now must be more discerning.

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Vinculum

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The consumers in Malaysia, for instance, want to buy a product in Singapore can now buy it from their own country. The B2C affair is gradually overlapping the B2B segment as customers are willing to purchase products directly from foreign manufacturers and retailers. Shipping and logistics. The Current landscape.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Slight Rise in Global Wide Production Activity Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with back-to-back expansion levels in February. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI® rose from 56.5 Manufacturing Among the two reported PMI reports relative to U.S.

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Vinculum

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

To maintain an e-commerce platform, a business person must look into several operations like inventory or warehouse management and logistic management. The logistic management operation binds the entire process strongly and needs proper attention to fulfill the customer’s need and real-time delivery of the stuff or products.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 28, 2021

But the world’s demand for clean energy is running up against some hard realities in the global supply chain and one of the most erratic transportation markets in history. Here are the five key project logistics challenges we’re seeing in renewable energy and how to overcome them. Renewable energy logistics has been a specialty of C.H.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs. Kick back, be inspired and happy innovating.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 3, 2021

As companies look to restructure their global supply chains in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and other disruptive forces, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has an opportunity to become the next manufacturing and logistics hub. Mexico is particularly strong in heavy manufacturing industries, notably, automotive.

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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. One example indicated was that U.S. One example indicated was that U.S. The report further indicates that India with 1.4

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 30, 2018

GDP growth lags that of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Jatusripitak said the work will transform the EEC into “a smart logistics hub.” Transportation alone, encompassing air, rail, road and maritime, will account for a substantial portion of the projected work.

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Oracle SCM

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most companies weren't buying from China or Taiwan or Malaysia like they are today. For example, it may also be valuable to know the condition of the shipping buffer, so having some logistics integration with the shipping companies that are handling the transportation of the materials, which could also be valuable.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

Deere & Company (brand name John Deere) is famed for the manufacture and supply of machinery used in agriculture, construction, and forestry, as well as diesel engines and lawn care equipment. One of the world’s largest manufacturers of computer chips, Intel needs little introduction. Deere & Company.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 13, 2016

Deere & Company (brand name John Deere) is well known for the manufacture and supply of machinery used in agriculture, construction, and forestry, as well as diesel engines and lawn care equipment. One of the world’s largest manufacturers of computer chips, Intel needs little introduction. Deere & Company.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. based manufacturers will still need a strong supply base from friendly countries.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

Whether to relocate supply or manufacturing from China to another low-cost country or switch to a near-shoring or re-shoring strategy is not a decision to take lightly. Nike: The world-famous sportswear brand has been moving manufacturing from China to some African and Southeast Asian countries.

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