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About Alexis Mizell-Pleasant Alexis Mizell-Pleasant is Managing Editor at Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazines where she is responsible for writing, editing, managing the awards programs, overseeing social media, moderating webinars, managing client relationships and more.
Supplychain resilience is “the capacity of a supplychain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change” Wikipedia. I am thinking a lot this month about business resilience and the role of supplychain leaders. In the last decade, supplychain performance regressed.
I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supplychain footprints will continue to expand.
For example, some OEMs in the past, like Mercedes-Benz, manufactured Sprinter vans in Germany, then partially disassembled them for shipment to SouthCarolina, where they were reassembled to avoid U.S. Tariffs can significantly raise production costs, particularly for automakers dependent on global supplychains.
CEO Jim Farley told Bloomberg last week that supplies remain “day-to-day” despite apparent progress in U.S. Scout is monitoring the situation as it builds out its SouthCarolina production facility. trade negotiations with China. trade negotiations with China. trade negotiations with China. talks with China.
Customer Case Study: Integration and QAD Automation Solutions. Lucian Manolache, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors will discuss implementing QAD Automation Solutions in two greenfield automotive plants in two different countries in Europe. Customer Case Study: Adient’s Rapid QAD Automation Solutions Global Implementation.
In this October 10, 2023 2023 edition of SupplyChain Matters This Week in SupplyChainTechnology we provide our capsule highlights of investments announced by supplychain management focused tech providers. The technology start-up secured $30 million in Series A funding in 2022.
The world of supplychain and logistics is changing every day. With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supplychain and logistics.
We are excited about being a part of the World Economic Forum Blockchain in SupplyChain group as well as our inclusion in Plug and Play, and will continue to work with both and expect new partnerships and more from them. We’re pretty comfortable with our current offices and the majority of our team in SouthCarolina for now.
In the same week, thousands of port workers initiated a strike, demanding better working conditions, and fair pay, and pushing back against automationtechnologies that threaten their livelihoods. Hurricanes and labor strikes are formidable disruptions to supplychains, exposing critical vulnerabilities.
SouthCarolina prohibits importation of some birds due to avian flu. Supplychain cyberattacks jumped 51% in 2021. The Covid pandemic continues to slow down global economies and supplychains. Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2
The SupplyChain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of our prior supplychain management published developments we have shared with readers. SupplyChain Driven Inflation Moderates in July. Our previous edition of this series was published on July 28 th.
In this SupplyChain Matters editorial commentary we focus on the passing of the CEO leadership baton for Boeing and challenges that are ahead. According to various published reports, he led the avionics supplier through two large acquisitions which eventually led to the company being acquired by United Technologies in 2018.
Continuing our SupplyChain Matters highlights of the global wide automotive industry’s ongoing supply network and production transformation towards developing and producing electric powered vehicles, we highlight a recent announcement from Ford Motor Company. states of Kentucky and SouthCarolina , along with Mexico.
SupplyChain Matters provides an added update as multi-industry supplychain teams hunker down for an expected U.S. Industry SupplyChain Impacts Many businesses will be impacted by this disruption with estimates that upwards of $5 billion in global trade per day can be impacted if all ports are disrupted.
Given our latest discussions on the impact of the Trump presidency on the supplychain, Tim Barnes’ excellent article shown below is exceptionally timely! This could significantly change the design of current production supplychains for major industrials and pharmaceutical companies. Here is Tim’s article.
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