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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Macro events like the Coronavirus crisis trigger demand volatility that affects every link in your global supply chain—from the raw materials you procure to setting safety stock levels to planning logistics and promotions. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. This complexity is occurring in many forms. Cost Pressures Will Continue to Escalate.

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How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

There’s no doubt that the pandemic, with its harsh lockdowns and impact on economies worldwide, has played a dramatic role in the supply chain disruptions being experienced by manufacturers. Many businesses in the US, and elsewhere, were sourcing their componentry from China. How can businesses create the supply chain of the future?

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Logistics Industry’s Slow Economic Comeback Continues in Spite of Challenges

Supply Chain Network

percent last year due to higher costs for taxes, obsolescence, depreciation, and insurance, which were offset by a further drop in the inventory carrying rate and warehousing costs. Manufacturing and business spending were the bright spots during much of 2010, while consumer goods production was almost flat. “As

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

This merger will reportedly include lithium mines and deposits located in Australia Canada , and South America and result in the third largest global lithium producer. America-centric is a big differentiator for us with customers, with investors.” to Combine with Allkem Ltd. to Combine with Allkem Ltd. based Livent Corp.

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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. The existing labor contract expired on July 1, 2022. Further, as we indicated in a prior commentary, the U.S.