Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 25, 2020

Will the trend toward a return to “regional manufacturing” boost volumes in over the road transportation in North America as manufacturers move away from Asian overseas operations? As a result, a new focus on network resilience and the idea of more regional manufacturing emerged.”. This strategy is not without its risks though.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2024

The law will apply to tickets purchased in Minnesota or other states for concerts or other live events held in Minnesota. Robotic arms Robin and Sparrow were designed and manufactured at its Robotics Innovation Hub near Boston and help sort customer orders. While Mexico retained the top spot in March, year-over-year trade with the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

Trade flowing across the United States-Mexico border has grown exponentially since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted in 1994. In 2016, the value of goods traded between the two countries topped $525 billion, making Mexico the third largest trading partner of the U.S. Companies carrying freight across the U.S.-Mexico

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Instead, many of these teams just accept manufacturing strategy as a constant.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. As demand for last mile logistics intensifies, warehouses become the prime candidates for automation.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2025

Companies importing and exporting goods, be it finished retail products, manufacturing components or materials, now face substantial cost and price pressures that squeeze margins and force difficult pricing, sourcing, operations and distribution decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2023

provides enterprise resource planning and other business applications for manufacturers. For example, it can look like imports from China are cheaper than the same goods imported from Mexico if a company is not relying on analysis produced by an advanced good global trade compliance (GTC) system. Adhering to trade law can be difficult.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.” ” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2025

In Part One of the series , Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle in efforts to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in the software design. He further established the case for why supply chain teams need to context integrated sourcing as well as procurement.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

Reported April 24 Over 60% of our business is from products that are manufactured, bagged, assembled or grown in the United States and only 12% of our business is direct imports. Recall, we purchased targeted additional inventory in late fiscal '25 and early fiscal '26, ahead of tariffs. A big thanks to you all for reading my articles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

based carrier’s role in Mexico as nearshoring manufacturing trends drive more cross-border trade. Based in Mexico City, Estafeta handles both packages and larger freight shipments and delivers domestically in Mexico and across the border with the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Frasquet is the executive director of corporate procurement, although his responsibilities include a much broader set of supply chain responsibilities than just sourcing. Belcorp Corporation, headquartered in Peru, manufactures cosmetics and personal care products for women in 14 nations across South and Central America.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chipotle Mexican Grill says its goal to source and sell chicken that’s certified as humanely raised has been delayed because its suppliers weren’t able to make the necessary changes without disrupting supply. And new data suggests Mexican suppliers are gaining ground as manufacturers reset their supply chains amid growing global disruptions.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Beyond the promotion of ethical sourcing, it’s also about “how we can extend the life of products,” Balaam says.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

ARC defines the warehouse automation market according to a number of qualifications and dimensions to deliver a well-defined measure, with numerous segmentations, allowing those that purchase the research to understand what is being measured, and to easily extrapolate the findings to support their strategic planning needs. Lee Partners.

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ModusLink Corporation

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Find alternate supply sources for the material and goods that are outside the affected tariffs. tariffs on key imports and exports could impact manufacturing costs. Companies that rely on raw materials, auto parts, and industrial components from Canada, Mexico, and China may experience price fluctuations.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Hunt, BNSF and GMXT Launch Intermodal Freight Delivery Service in Mexico More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

That stated, in certain regions such as across Europe and China , the year continues to present economic and manufacturing challenges. Global wide manufacturing activity levels as measured by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® contracted once again at the end of Q3. In the specific case of Germany , it is both.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Costco has reintroduced purchase limits. Over 80% of oil output in Gulf of Mexico still offline a week after Ida. The funding will focus on manufacturers of the inputs used in COVID-19 vaccine production as well as facilities that fill and package vaccine vials. Amazon Air continues to expand US freighter network.

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Elementum

JUNE 6, 2016

Mexico may become the global manufacturing nerve center if the country plays its cards right. According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, Mexico ranks number eight out of 40 countries including Canada, Sweden, and Vietnam. Mexico has its share of challenges, of course. Looking Deeper.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

Avoid the pitfalls of single sourcing and learn strategies to build a more resilient supply chain. Yet, within the pursuit of efficiency lies a lurking peril: single sourcing. The pandemic was a wake-up call to the dangers of single sourcing. What is single sourcing and sole sourcing?

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Even today when one reads the numerous articles about the benefits of manufacturing or assembling in Mexico, most of them highlight Mexico's low-cost labor and, of course, its proximity to the US market. But what does it all mean for those shippers and manufacturers that rely on cross-border trade between the two countries?

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. In the process, it has highlighted an aspect of manufacturing ERP that is not as visible in more normal times— business continuity.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Before FreightWaves, Anthony received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics from New Mexico State University. Anthony’s clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail industries. FreightWaves is made up of three interconnected pillars: FreightWaves’?

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Resilinc

MAY 16, 2025

What was a stable sourcing strategy yesterday may be obsolete today. tariffs on China likely to remain a central focus, many companies are eyeing countries like India for manufacturing relocation. Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). cutting tariffs on Chinese imports from 145% to 30% for 90 days. The result? legal frameworks.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 18, 2022

For many years the predominant priority in sourcing has been finding the lowest cost possible. However the continuity of supply issues caused by the pandemic has created a call to repatriate much of this manufacturing into domestic, albeit higher cost, regions. What is the appropriate sourcing strategy going forward?

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. and Mexico, according to the notice. according to the Walmart Marketplace website.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

of east coast and Gulf of Mexico imports in September, according to an article from the Business Information Industry Association. The fuel supply chain could be one of many chains affected by a hurricane, especially if the hurricane threatens the Gulf of Mexico hampering the oil fields like Katrina did in 2005.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A manufacturer in China doesn’t read the specs on an order. A supplier in Mexico mixes up two similar parts. What makes Ethereum different is that it actively encourages software development teams to use its open-source protocol to design tokens that run on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Supply chains are messy.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2016

Mexico offers a skilled and affordable work force. Offshoring offers manufacturers many supply and labor benefits, but it can also present supply chain logistics management obstacles. Some companies have found success by nearshoring to Mexico instead of going with traditional options for offshoring facilities. Ford is a U.S.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2016

Mexico offers a skilled and affordable work force. Offshoring offers manufacturers many supply and labor benefits, but it can also present supply chain logistics management obstacles. Some companies have found success by nearshoring to Mexico instead of going with traditional options for offshoring facilities. Ford is a U.S.

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