Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The numbers speak for themselves: 34 episodes produced in 2015, totaling more than 56,800 views and 1,360+ minutes of conversations with thought leaders and newsmakers in the supply chain and logistics industry. From Project to Continuous Business Process: The Evolution of Supply Chain Design (4,159 views). Top 10 Posts.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

An example in the supply chain space is US maritime policy. The widening of the Panama Canal to enable larger ships to pass through the trade artery will generate this traffic. With manufacturing already running at peak capacity, supplies may begin to fall short.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Anti-competitive practices remain a peripheral CSR issue for most companies , particularly in the context of sustainable procurement. Moving beyond compliance: Sustainable Procurement. Indeed, suppliers involved in cartel activity should be viewed with skepticism in any partnership or procurement negotiation. What to read next.

Negotiate Pricing 40

Negotiate Pricing Procurement Sustainability Negotiating Skills 40

Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. based automakers Ford Motor , General Motors and Stellantis , that the implications would ripple across the industry.

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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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ThroughPut

MAY 9, 2024

Supply chains across industries are now more vulnerable to failures than ever before. How can supply chains operate under multiple pressures while still working toward increasingly aggressive goals? Establishing a seamless supply chain is mission-critical for most businesses. They need to respond to it.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

A smooth-functioning supply chain is vital to meeting buyer expectations. Despite your best supply chain planning, supply chains get disrupted – sometimes moderately and at other times massively. The supply base, no matter how meticulously put together, depends on numerous external factors.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Supply Chain Matters alerts clients and readers to a potential replay of the 2021 disruption in global shipping and cascading supply chain disruption as a result of recent events. The cascading effects of the disruption reverberated among multiple industry supply chains and ocean container shipping schedules.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Supply Chain Trends in 2016: A Year of Defining Change.Transportfolio by C.H. From the Panama Canal opening to a record year in ecommerce, the happenings of 2016 have kept everyone on their toes. This is in large part driven by supply chain visibility needs and technology changes. Year of Global Revolution.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a recent technology provider survey indicating that there appears to be little signs of traditional second-half peak period demand for container shipments. Background In a prior Supply Chain Matters commentary published in May , we highlighted that the U.S. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2016

In collaboration with Amber Road, Supply Chain Movement has put together this Global EU Trade Map which provides an overview of current EU trade agreements and an insight into potential trade risks and how to mitigate them. By Supply Chain Movement in collaboration with Amber Road. Netherlands Antilles. New Caledonia.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. In parallel is the assessing of the related restricted ship transit volumes surrounding the Panama Canal because of low water levels. All rights reserved.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

However, Nerijus Poskus, director of pricing and procurement for the freight forwarder and customs broker Flexport, predicts that this spike won’t last longer than one or two months. In addition, the recent expansion of the Panama Canal has led companies to build larger, newer ships. But now, hundreds of these ships sit empty and idle.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Research and Consulting Group thru its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog, provides a reassessment of our prior prediction related to supply chain ESG strategy and action plans over the next 2-3 years. However, economic and manufacturing recession conditions are now being observed.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Supply chain stresses seem to have faded somewhat, at least on aggregate.” All rights reserved.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2016

Panama Canal Expansion. The Panama Canal expansion, slated for completion this spring, will impact logistics in a big way. You can read more on the topic in our recent white paper, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion Is Redrawing the Logistics Map , which was written collaboratively with Boston Consulting Group.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a monthly highlights of reported January 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Transit to and from the Panama Canal further remains constrained by lower basin water levels brought about by climate drought conditions. All rights reserved.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

With extreme weather—running the gamut from droughts to flooding rains—likely to occur across the globe this winter, we can expect to see the supply chain affected in several areas. El Niño may serve as the ultimate test of supply chain risk management and resiliency. Identify Alternative Transportation Routes.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2024

He writes, “If you thought COVID-19 caused problems for supply chains, imagine how they’ll be blown apart when climate change causes extreme weather events, rising sea levels and massive spikes in temperature all over the world. Most recently, drought conditions in Panama limited the flow of ships through the Panama Canal.

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Resilinc

JULY 19, 2022

At the same time, street blockades and trucker strikes are exacerbating those desabastecimientos in population centers such as Panama City. They are also disrupting global supply chains. For supply chain managers, the labor actions of greatest concern are in transport and logistics. In the spotlight for U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule follow-up relative to updating readers to prior supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas 2023 holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the occurrence of multi-day disruptions occurring among key U.S. End to end logistics visibility technology provider projet44 provided Supply Chain Matters the below chart depicting median import and export dwell times for the Port of Los Angeles that depicts the actual daily impacts.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2025

In this special edition of our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column, we highlight two noteworthy investments. The ports surrounding the Panama Canal has special significance because of the Trump Administrations stated concerns relative to the fees being charged for U.S. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 13, 2025

In this Supply Chain Matters market education commentary, we make the case that traditional supply chain planning approaches are struggling in todays far more uncertain and ever-changing business environment. Thus, simplified definitions are called for.

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