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Global Supply Chain Pressure Index: A Barometer of Stress

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

The index draws on over two dozen metrics reflecting global transportation costs and regional manufacturing surveys across 7 regions: the USA, China, the Euro area, Japan, the UK, South Korea, and Taiwan. GSCPI: A Single Index Measuring End to End Supply Chain Stress.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Further reported was that supplier delivery performance levels deteriorated for the first time attributed to trucking and transportation delays. Renewed Expansion in South Korea The S&P Global South Korea Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with a reported renewed expansion in the country’s manufacturing sector at the start of 2024.

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Saving the Smart City Future

Enterra Insights

This helps city authorities to intelligently manage their assets, increase efficiencies, revolutionize transport, reduce costs, and in theory, enhance overall quality of life for residents.” The other five systems are: business; transport; communication; water; and energy.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. 81% of semiconductor contract manufacturing was based in Taiwan or South Korea in 2020 ( Deloitte Global ), but The United States passed a $52 billion dollar Chips for America Act in an effort to bring the manufacturing of microchips back to the United States.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

In a highly inspiring key note presentation at the supply chain conference, Fareed Zakaria of CNN spoke about how the jobs recovery following the 2008 recession lagged the economic recovery by as much as 64 months while the same metric for the previous recessions was significantly narrower.

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Will the Nuclear Power Sector Make a Resurgence? Part One

Enterra Insights

Another fear involves the transport and storage of nuclear waste. ” Journalist Mitch Jacoby reports, “More than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste sits in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities worldwide, with over 90,000 metric tons in the US alone.”[11]