Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 5, 2023

Source: S&P Global Monthly PMI Reporting Highlights of Regional Reporting Continued High expansion in India Manufacturing activity levels across India remained at high expansion levels in May, outpacing all other regions. The May PMI value of 44.3 dipped a significant 2.8 percentage points from the 47.1 reported in April.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Taiwan Taiwan’s activity as reflected in the S&P Global Taiwan Manufacturing PMI® showed its best performance since June 2022, rising 4.7 Report authors however, qualified that the domestic market demand was the prime source of activity growth. The new orders sub-index was reported as 54.1, increasing 3.2

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Source: S&P Global, April, 2023 Highlights of Regional Reporting Developed Regions Eurozone The S&P Global Eurozone Manufacturing PMI® fell again in March to a value of 47.3 compared to the February value of 48.5, The March value of 48.6

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

I had the opportunity to sit in on a very thorough presentation by a member of the Economist Intelligence Unit at the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies meeting today. Conflict erupts between China and Taiwan (Andrew said this is not likely, and I agree – see my previous blog ). War in Ukraine turns into global conflict.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some regions, particularly Europe, China and Taiwan are more exposed to these product demand constrained forces. The S&P Global Taiwan Manufacturing PMI® i ndex was reported as its lowest level since 2009 by the end of October 2022 while the S&P global Eurozone Manufacturing PMI® fell to a 29-month low.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2023

Source: S&P Global Intelligence, July 2023 Highlights of Regional Reporting- Good and Not So Good Continued Production Expansion Across India Increased product demand and manufacturing activity levels across India during June outpaced all other regions. This country’s June PMI value was reported as 40.6,

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

So I think we’re well qualified to present a general outlook for the wholesale and distribution industry. Business costs will rise for those who are sourcing some or most of their raw materials or goods from China. Taiwan is a prime candidate to replace Chinese exports due to its proximity. So, the inevitable will happen.

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HICX Solutions

JUNE 12, 2023

How to take advantage of technology in procurement With the opportunity presented by new best-of-breed solutions in front of us, we asked Yash to give his thoughts on the next steps for companies to take advantage of this.  He explains, “They’ve all gone through what I call ‘baseline digitalization’ or ‘baseline tech adoption.’

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Taulia

MARCH 15, 2023

While none of these territories have been able to escape the present global economic adversity fully, the UK appeared a striking outlier in terms of the scale and severity of the challenges inflation poses to its business community. However, as we’ve mentioned, lack of inventory and supply chain issues will likely retreat as priorities.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 10, 2013

How can security professionals present a convincing case for investments in supply chain resilience in the face of such skepticism? When an earthquake hit Taiwan in 1999 and knocked out a large number of the world’s chip supplies, Dell steered customers to products that could be built with available components.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

This index complies a data set of 2 chosen variables for each of the economies of the Eurozone , China , Japan, South Korea , Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. interest rates expected to climb significantly in the coming months, inventory carrying costs will present an added cost burden. Federal Bank of New York.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

Diversify your supplier base Single sourcing presents a huge risk for companies in all industries, especially as geopolitical disruptions are on the rise. Picture this: a critical part of your product is only made in one factory in Taiwan. This is very possible, considering 60% of the world’s semiconductors are made in Taiwan.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 16, 2024

While these are certainly worthwhile objectives, the report is long on presenting problems the US faces in each of these areas, but falls short of providing basic or actionable recommendations. There is also little consideration of what it takes to truly establish domestic sourcing capabilities.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2024

As Supply Chain Matters has highlighted in our prior industry specific coverage, industry dominants Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are also investing in U.S. Noted in interviews with sources is a realization that facility construction costs are four to five times higher than what they would be Asia.

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Global Trade Management

APRIL 3, 2008

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. On both occasions he presented his GTX vision and encouraged the private sector to go forward and build the concept. Subscribe To. Friday, 4 April 2008. A senior U.S.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Digitalization helps companies obtain the right data from the right sources and ensures that data gets to the right decision-makers. Most companies weren’t buying from China or Taiwan or Malaysia like they are today.”[4] He notes one big challenge is integrating data. But what they lack are insights.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 8, 2023

Cryptocurrency has presented a potentially attractive method for sanctions evasion." defense company Lockheed Martin to the “unreliable entities list”, following the sale of weapons to Taiwan. UK FINANCE The Cyber-Crypto-Sanctions Nexus The crypto space is often exploited by criminals looking to use crypto platforms to evade sanctions.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Source Sensibly and Sustainably. Highly developed nations such as South Korea and Taiwan may fill in the technology gap. While common inventory ratios don’t necessarily present a complete picture of your business’ health, it’s handy to highlight areas where you could improve. Go Forth with International Trade.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering. About 40% of VF Corp’s production is sourced from the Americas, more than double the industry average. million items each day.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When fully laden, ultra-large crude carriers (ULCC; tankers of more than 300,000 tons) cannot pass through the canal because of its present capacity of 240,000 tons. billion of its total revenue in the fiscal year 2014, placing it as the third-largest source of income in the nation. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5 meters in 2001.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on added developments which now indicate that consumer electronics icon Apple is accelerating actions to source the company’s hardware component and assembly production to other countries. Background. What apparently was missing is what specific challenges that entailed.

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