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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Stabilize in February

Supply Chain Matters

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMIĀ® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , halted a consecutive five-months of contraction levels to that of no-change. The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMIĀ® had a February value of 47.3,

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

ToolsGroup

Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoesā€¦

Supply Chain Shaman

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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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. East notes, “Sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. Some of that data already exists and is standardized, while other data is coming from new sources with no established standards.”

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Securing aerospace and defense-critical supply chains

Resilinc

The lack of skilled and semi-skilled factory workers as well as the fact that many workers prefer the hours, conditions and flexibility of service jobs and gig work are formidable obstacles for companies looking to reshore productionā€”especially those in advanced manufacturing. A vivid example: drones.

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Ivalua Continues Momentum with Record Annual Sales and Customer Acquisition

ivalua

Canada, the Middle East, South America and Asia are now using Ivaluaā€™s platform to power their digital transformations, improving efficiency, reducing costs, managing risk and growing revenue. ā€œWe Many other innovations spanning the Source-to-Pay process. Hundreds of the most admired companies from Europe, the U.S.,

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Sustainability pays off, but itā€™s not always traceable

Supply Chain Movement

Consumption, especially of ā€˜luxuryā€™ products such as coffee, tea and chocolate, is expected to increase substantially, in particular in the emerging economies in the Far East, South America and parts of Africa. If nothing changes, food manufacturers who process these natural, renewable raw materials will soon face major problems.