Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives of Amazon’s recently reported Q4 and full year 2023 financial performance. Online sales growth, which mostly equates to holiday fulfillment revenues, reportedly rose 9 percent to $70.5 billion in 2023, compared with $12.2 billion in 2023, compared with a net loss of $2.7

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Locus

AUGUST 1, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Gartner® has included Locus as a Sample Vendor for Last-Mile Delivery (LMD) solutions in their Hype Cycle 2023 for Supply Chain Execution Technologies report. Previously, Locus was also mentioned as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Last-Mile Delivery Technology.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 9, 2023

Jocz noted, “Purchases depend on consumers’ having disposable income, feeling confident about their future, trusting in business and the economy, and embracing lifestyles and values that encourage consumption. The metaverse is immature, crypto is crashing, and blockchains are still trying to fulfill their potential. ”[1].

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 15, 2023

… Washington Analysis, a research firm in Washington, D.C., … Washington Analysis, a research firm in Washington, D.C., McKinsey & Company analysts, Bill Aull , Dymfke Kuijpers , and Daniel Läubli , note, “Changes to the global grocery retail market are happening fast. And change continues to take place.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers the implications of Amazon’s ongoing global and domestic operational and last mile fulfillment network. We believe that these inventory management, customer and last-mile fulfillment strategies will have industry wide implications in terms of competitive stakes and cost-to-serve.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Fulfillment. Success in 2023 will depend on the success of supply chains, and one-third of company leaders believe their supply chain distribution problems will last through 2023 (SAP News). Let’s look at how supply chain parties can improve warehousing and distribution in global fulfillment and distribution in the coming year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

In early November, my colleague Steve Banker wrote an article looking at the top supply chain trends for 2023 and beyond. While we look ahead to the future, I think it is also important to look back on the year that was. ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares samples of individual prediction snapshots that will be included in our Annual 2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

According to McKinsey & Company partners, Daniel Aminetzah and Nicolas Denis , the world could be facing a significant food crisis in the near future. Resilient global food value chains are important because many countries rely on trade to fulfill their food needs. They explain, “The pandemic. Supply chain strains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

That’s shorthand for a supposed future state when pandemics, natural disasters, political conflicts – pick your disruption du jour – have receded into the background and our supply chains can once again operate in a relatively stable environment. Things have changed, for good, and the environment we now work in is one of constant volatility.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2023

After four days of retail insights focused on the trends, business models, and technologies that are shaping the future of retail, ShopTalk 2023 has closed a successful and illuminating conference. Sahil Gupta , Chief Product Officer at ToolsGroup, shares the most important insights and takeaways from this year’s ShopTalk conference.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When the pandemic emptied offices and factories, business continuity planning (BCP) became a big issue for many companies. ”[1] Obviously, traditional business continuity plans had little impact when infrastructure was in place but employees were not. This is essentially a business impact analysis. Next, develop a plan.”[2]

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

Grocery trade group prepares for 2023 launch of stricter food tracing regulations. The Postal Service generally does not receive taxpayer funding, but Congress restructured its finances this year to relieve $107 billion in past-due and future obligations. Some spices are meant to be grown and used year-round. Kinaxis acquires MPO.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

announced disappointing financial performance for the all-important holiday fulfillment quarter ended December 31, 2022 that reflected expected supply chain fulfillment challenges. The reality is that Apple , like others, succumbed to too much supply network fulfillment exposure in a singular country. billion, down 5.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As a result, in a market downturn, process latency increases. Note in Figure 1 the gaps from recent research between supply chain planning and manufacturing, logistics, and sales. I brace myself for a late flight for a 2:00 AM arrival as the clock ticks-an echo of time lost. Today, I ended a 45-day speaking tour. The reason?

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Seasonal Holiday Hiring At Its Lowest Levels Following up on our Supply Chain Matters posting highlighting the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) November 2023 holiday spending forecast , The Wall Street Journal reported this week ( Paid subscription ) that the number of U.S. factory workers an 11 percent pay increase this year.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

Forward-thinking Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) are seeing the current scenario as a once-in-a-decade opportunity to future-proof their supply chains; just to ensure that the aftermath of another calamity does not take them a few years back and offset their profits to recuperate from irreparable losses. S&OP) 2.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2023

Reportedly, this latest investment follows a continued period of growth, reportedly including 55 percent year-over-year growth in Annual Recurring Revenues (ARR) as of Q2-2023. billion, a considerable increase given today’s market conditions, especially in the current challenging equity market that has throttled down tech provider valuations.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights Amazon CEO ’s latest letter to shareholders outlining performance, operational and strategic business goals moving forward in 2023 and beyond. This year’s communication comes as this icon of online continues to respond to changing online markets and overall business performance.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

As The Wall Street Journal reported in its summary of the 2023 World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland , company CEO ’s are giving priority to efficiency and profitability, whether it is to reach a firm’s strategic goals, slim down the workforce, or streamline operations.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The data is quite extensive in terms of scope and activity levels. imports peaked at 21.6

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ThroughPut

JUNE 16, 2023

Forward-thinking Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) are seeing the current scenario as a once-in-a-decade opportunity to future-proof their supply chains; just to ensure that the aftermath of another calamity does not take them a few years back and offset their profits to recuperate from irreparable losses.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 12, 2023

Forecasting Challenges for Logistics Planners in 2023 Rising Customer Expectations: Your customers don’t care about the uncertainties and unknowns you’ve got to deal with. Rather than relying solely on historical data, it takes into account current market conditions, customer behavior, and other factors that impact demand.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2023

Tedros made a profound statement that deserves emphasis: “ If we all go back to how things were before Covid-19, we will have failed to learn our lessons, and we will have failed future generations.” Online retail has become essential as has online customer fulfillment logistics. According to the health organization, more than 6.9

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Airbus , in contrast, is seeking to continue to tap China’s significant future needs for airline travel with its vast potential for new aircraft. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. This facility has been operational since 2008.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background Within our research arm’s previously published industry and global supply chains predictions advisory published at the start of this year, we predicted that manufacturers would up their efforts this year in restoring more direct control and added resiliency in their direct materials component and outsourced manufacturing strategies.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Objectives of liquidity management are to ensure that the business has cash on hand to fulfill its financial obligations and weather the storm during both anticipated and unexpected events, like supply chain disruption or abrupt drop in sales, without enduring significant losses. However, others, like fixed assets (e.g.,

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of April 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which continue to reinforce a state of contraction level stabilization within global supply chain networks. Some good news is that the reported data reinforces that global supply chain wide pressures have eased considerably. declined 1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog pens its first blog of 2023 with added evidence that Supply Chain Do Matter for Successful Business Outcomes. First of all, Happy New Year and best wishes for all our readers in the coming new year. Let’s reflect on a few specific examples.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2023

The results are revealing and yet point out the delicate balance underway to de-risk supply network exposures in the country while maintaining an access to China’s markets. The open question would be industry impetus and timetables.

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ShipBob

JANUARY 8, 2021

If you are new to the B2B ecommerce market, this guide will help you better understand how B2B ecommerce works, how to market to B2B customers, and which ecommerce platforms are the most B2B-friendly. . B2B ecommerce takes up a lot of space in the market, and it consists of wholesalers, distributors, and suppliers. Wholesalers.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

In this Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Thought Leadership Perspective viewpoint, we highlight added signs of China and global-wide production contraction and the implications of such trending. The country’s exports in July declined 14.5 The country’s exports in July declined 14.5 Shipments to the U.S. reportedly declined 23.1

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The report contrasted last year repurchase actions when recession fears moved the S&P 500 to bear market territory. According to a published report by S&P Global Market Intelligence , more than one in five listed S&P 500 Companies increased their earnings-per-share metric by a least 4 percent by the third quarter of last year.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Logistics industry was experiencing capacity constraints, driver shortages, sudden upticks in e-commerce demand, new technologies, different fulfillment models , delays, port congestions, canal blockage etc. Planning logistics operations without understanding the future trends causes businesses to lose their significant customer base.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 12, 2023

Such an environment requires manufacturing and supply chain processes to be able to more proactively sense, pivot and respond to constant or rapidly changing market conditions. The following is a continuation of a supply chain technology thought leadership education series developed in collaboration with Replan.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of March and Q1- 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which reinforce a state of stabilization within global supply chain networks. The overall average for all of Q1-2023 was 48.6 However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 31, 2022

Investments in micro-fulfillment facilities and the last mile are being made to achieve these solutions to maintain customer satisfaction, faster last-mile delivery, and mitigating costs. Also, it was fulfilling more orders from stores, up about 3.5 In addition, smaller fulfillment facilities closer to the end customer are popping up.

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