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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. That’s been a massive trend.

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Supply Chain Management in Apparel Industry

SCMDOJO

For the production, the appropriate raw material is sourced or produced based on the details provided by the fashion designers in the previous step. Countries, especially in South Asia, like China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, etc., Production of the Garment.

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Q: Food vs Fuel? A: Wrong question…We need more efficient markets!

Supply Chain View from the Field

Looking at vegetable oils, with a global population of 7B people, each consuming the recommended 40g of dietary fat per day, 365 days per year, would require just over 100M metric tons of oil. We are currently according to the USDA producing over 160M metric tons of refined vegetable oil alone.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

made great use of this innovation during the Vietnam War to ship supplies to soldiers, who sometimes even used the containers as shelters … This innovation made the modern globalized world possible. The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83

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SCRC Meeting Insights Part II: Management Principles for Executing Visibility Strategies

NC State SCRC

The problem in most supply chains is “not enough data”, because data is being created from machines, from people, from systems, and from external sources. Often the sources of information are hidden in piles of data that we don’t think about. Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? No easy task.

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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Wholesalers in 2019: Drop Those Bad Habits from 2018

EMERGE App

Source Sensibly and Sustainably. South-East Asian nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are ready with substitutes or alternative suppliers. Keep an eye on this metric to avoid a deadstock situation. This added mobility means that work need not be confined to bulky desktops or laptops in the office.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

The S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® reentered expansionary level at a reported value of 50.3 This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam. This metric bears continual observation in the coming months. from the 48.9