Proxima

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As a result, there are going to be difficult conversations taking place in offices across the United States, whether it’s the 30 th floor of a New York high rise or the board room of a manufacturer in Houston. However, these questions shouldn’t be contained to procurement team meetings or board rooms. So, what can be done?

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business. His primary research stream examines firms’ logistics operations, with an emphasis on studying motor carrier safety, productivity, pricing dynamics, and driver turnover. MSU was founded in 1855.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

Stellantis Senior Procurement Leadership Change. According to a Stellantis press release, Martin Hornneck, who headed procurement and supply chain for North America since 2020 “ has announced his decision to retire.”. billion in joint venture for a new lithium-ion battery production plant in United States.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2021

Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business. His primary research stream examines firms’ logistics operations, with an emphasis on studying motor carrier safety, productivity, pricing dynamics, and driver turnover. MSU was founded in 1855.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2024

Brazil, China, India, and the United States indices remained at expansionary levels. Regional Highlights United States Among major regions, the two followed indices of U.S. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

For example, China and the United States are ranked 1 and 2 respectively for the production of rare earth elements, but this is deceiving as China is producing 5 times the amount of the United States. Materials like rare earth elements have a high concentration in Asia. Supply Chain Resilience vs Low-Cost Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

While the Wing and Walmart services are still pretty limited, with each service initially designed to perform around 100 deliveries per day, they have both moved beyond the research and development phase. Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2 GW to 10.4

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As companies expand globally through mergers or organic growth, many are faced with the decision of whether or not to combine logistics teams and apply a universal truckload procurement strategy across multiple regions. To obtain the most effective results, best practice requires adaptations to truckload procurement strategies.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On this Labor Day holiday, the Supply Chain Matters blog extends our salute and recognition to the many supply chain workers who plan, procure, coordinate, and directly support the movement of multi-industry components and finished products to respective markets and to businesses and consumers. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Reportedly, 33 Chinese parts suppliers were registered in Mexico , 18 of which exported parts to the United States. This political dimension cannot be ignored by industry sourcing and procurement leaders and is increasingly ever more consequential as domestic industrial policies spillover into industry consequences. reached $1.1

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As companies expand globally through mergers or organic growth, many are faced with the decision whether to combine logistics teams and apply a universal truckload procurement strategy across multiple regions. To obtain the most effective results, best practice requires adaptations to truckload procurement strategies. In the U.S.,

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 26, 2022

He cites a research report by Deloitte that concluded, “About 64% of companies have embarked on the journey to implement Robotic Process Automation in order to automate support tasks.” ” Three specific areas where RPA can improve processes are: • Procurement. 2) RPA provides an ROI of 30-200% in its first year. (3)

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care? Where is procurement, outsourcing, sourcing, supply chain, and purchasing going? Secondarily, we will include information from other procurement professionals and procurement firms about their experiences, what they forecast, and what they are seeing.

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As companies expand globally through mergers or organic growth, many are faced with the decision of whether or not to combine logistics teams and apply a universal truckload procurement strategy across multiple regions. To obtain the most effective results, best practice requires adaptations to truckload procurement strategies.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog shares a mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 predictions for industry supply chains published at the beginning of 2022. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. percent in June.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

THC and is legal in the United States.* With that being said, a plethora of laws have been put in place that you need to be aware of, both federally and at the state level. Federal CBD laws There are no federal laws in the United States that prohibit the sale of CBD (as long as you make sure your products contain less than 0.3%

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The editorial goes on to question whether this victory for organized labor a good deal for the United States as a whole is also given the notions of a highly cost conscious industry. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Stay tuned. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. Background. Prediction Background. For those businesses located in the U.S.,

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I also collaborated with a group of researchers at the University of Palermo on research related to the relationship between the common practice of offshoring and product recalls, which are also unfortunately becoming increasingly common (and are often the root cause of shortages). Drug manufacturing has always been a tricky business.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our Annual 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. Background. percent in 2022 and 9.7 percent on 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

In the United States, families are packing for labor day. Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Further indicated was that: “ Geopolitical trends and including declining interdependencies between China and the United States are having a growing impact on global trade.” Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Last week, U.S. All rights reserved.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2021

Identifying key strengths in procurement and management in high-impact countries will support a fast improvement that may boost economic growth in the region. For now, Mendonça, Villena, and Ruiz have focused on just five major markets in the Americas: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

Optimism is reflected in United States , Eurozone and select Asia data and the traditional Lunar New Year holiday period does not appear to have dampened Asia based production levels for February. A relatively new index is The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI) , developed by a group of researchers at the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 27, 2023

In a media briefing, the CEO cited a “ local for local ” strategy applies to major product selling regions including China , Europe and the United States. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Resilinc

MAY 3, 2022

As readers of this blog will be aware, workforce challenges are ubiquitous in the United States. And the DOD promises to use its procurement and contracting power to “ diversify domestic and allied supply chains to support the on-shoring and ally-shoring of critical supplies.”. As the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

United States. Indices reflecting manufacturing across the United States reflected lower momentum as well. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. The top three regions exhibiting PMI growth were that of India, Australia and the Netherlands. down from the 52.7

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2023

Background Our research parent, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group , recently published 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains ( Available for complimentary downloading in our Research Center ). Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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TMC

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the NAFTA modernization, the United States is expected to push Mexico and Canada to increase their de minimis levels to be more in line with the United States. Where possible, they should include multi-stop lanes in the procurement event, minimizing the introduction at time of shipment tender. Final thoughts.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

Just shy of three years ago, athletic and leisure footwear manufacturer New Balance announced plans to build the company’s sixth footwear factory within the United States. This manufacturer had boasted that it is the only major company to make or assemble more millions of pairs of athletic footwear per year in the United States.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

Athletic and leisure footwear manufacturer New Balance has advanced plans to build the company’s sixth footwear manufacturing facility within the United States. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But reality might seem to indicate that German manufacturers need to continue to pivot from the high dependence on China and perhaps take advantage of the new manufacturing investment underway in regions such as India, Vietnam, Mexico , the United States and other regional areas. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

United States. Indices reflecting manufacturing across the United States were mixed but remained generally positive. © Copyright 2021, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Select Regional Highlights. The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI™ reported a value of 58.8

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C3 Solutions

JULY 30, 2020

The biggest barrier to the IoT is that most enterprises do not know what to do with the technology," 3 says Gartner Research Vice President Mark Hung. Nobody wants to be the guinea pig," Intel's global logistics procurement director Greg Christensen told the authors of the 2019 State of Logistics Report. Where's the ROI?

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ProcurePort

JULY 14, 2021

To date, 89% of businesses in the United States have adopted a digital-first enterprise strategy. And according to Tech Pro Research, 70% of businesses already have a digital transformation strategy in place or are drafting one.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2020

21 CFR 820 – Overseen by the United States Food & Drug Administration, this Code of Federal Regulations sets out quality system regulations and good manufacturing practices for medical devices made or sold in the United States. This was reviewed in 2020 and has been adopted by many countries globally.

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