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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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Doing Business in Brazil

QAD

Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest country in the world. Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Manufacturing in Brazil.

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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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Emerging Supply Chain Trends ā€“ A Look at Evolving Finished Vehicle Logistics Amid Market Shifts and Trends

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Major Trends: Volatile Production, Capacity Crisis & The Need for EV Automotive manufacturing is experiencing a huge global transformation compared to the past. The main destinations of vehicle exports were Europe, Middle East and Africa and South America.

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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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A Logistics Conversation with Arcadia Cold, Part 1

BlueYonder

I initially worked in High Tech manufacturing for a microchip manufacturer and an electronics manufacturing group, where I cut my teeth on logistics. I studied Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech and learned about logistics systems. I then spent the last 20 years in the U.S.,

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Food Logistics Awards ThroughPut Inc as a 2021 Top Software & Technology Provider

ThroughPut

During the pandemic, our customers have enabled an incredible journey from the farms of South America, to the glass bottle manufacturers of the US, to supermarkets in Europe, and even the container ports in the Middle East, and beyond.