Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Output reportedly rose in China, India, Brazil and the United States , while declines continued in the Eurozone , Japan and the United Kingdom. United Kingdom manufacturers additionally pointed to the ongoing Red Sea shipping crisis leading to added supply disruptions. The February 2024 reading of 50.3

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Stephen Cleminson ( @stephenathale ), Alliances Director at Ivalua, reports that a survey conducted by his company in the United Kingdom found, “87% of UK businesses see ‘greener’, sustainable supply chains, as a competitive advantage.”[4] … As consumer mindset has shifted, so has the corporate mindset.”[5]

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Maersk has unabashedly championed vertical integration for years, advocating an “end-to-end” strategy. And, not to be left behind, it’s also pursued a horizontal integration strategy, acquiring a growing fleet of airplanes. And both shifts will have major ramifications on customers – importers, exporters, and online sellers.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the lessons garnered during the pandemic will likely drive inventory management toward less of a dependency on global-wide sourcing and more toward product postponement sourcing and customer fulfillment strategies. and the United Kingdom.

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Proxima

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This has resulted in many businesses facing tough decisions – about how to adjust their business to short-term restrictions, how they evolve their long-term strategy in light of new trends brought about by COVID-19 and, perhaps toughest of all, whether they can afford to keep all of their people. Some businesses do, but many do not.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The ease with which the virus can be spread, even by people who have never been to China, let alone Wuhan, was highlighted by a case in the United Kingdom. Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

United Kingdom based Micro Focus has built a business on growth by acquisition and merger, specifically focused on aiding customers to maintain and integrate their legacy IT systems and infrastructure. The enterprise value of Micro Focus is reported to be $2 billion and the purchase price is reported to be 2.2

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

EV Parcel Van Producer Arrival Placed in Administration United Kingdom based Arrival , a designer and producer of electric powered parcel delivery vans has reportedly entered bankruptcy administration. That has included Lordstown Motors , Proterra , Volta Trucks , and now Arrival.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 3, 2021

These concepts can be hard to define and measure, and even harder to integrate into procurement. United Kingdom nonprofit Anti-Slavery estimates that about 16 million people “are exploited in the private sector … supply chains of the international businesses supplying our goods and services.”

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

United Kingdom In the dependent region of the United Kingdom, the S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI® posted a value of 44.8, The October report narrative further indicated that European manufacturer’s initiated additional job cuts in order to make additional cost savings. percentage point increase from the 44.3

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

United Kingdom. As our readers are likely aware at this point, a new Prime Minister has been appointed to lead the government of the United Kingdom , after former Prime Minister Lizz Truss was forced to resign after serving a mere 50 days in office, amid controversial and noted de-stabilizing economic and taxation policies. .

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Because of their close trade relationships with the EU , Canada and the United Kingdom would likely seek to provide forms of similar legislation. To little surprise, countries such as China have already criticized this legislation. Reportedly, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Treasury Department along with governmental agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the European Union. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , the tech provider has been awarded contracts to a number of U.S. governmental agencies to include U.S. Customs and Border Control, the U.S.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2019

In this article, experts identify which steps in the procurement process are most likely to benefit from the AI revolution. One of the main uses for artificial intelligence in procurement is to meld internal and external data to provide enhanced supplier risk management. Data-driven decisions. ” Pick that low-hanging fruit. .”

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 16, 2014

Procurement Transformation Summit. Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel – Victoria, London, United Kingdom. Business Alignment • Collaborative Sourcing Strategy • Fraud Prevention • Risk Management • Performance Analysis • Technology Enablement • Enhanced Model of Delivery • Spend Analytics. Organiser: SSON.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

In the dependent region of the United Kingdom , the S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI® deepened to a seven month low of 45.3 Considerable weakness was noted for both Germany (a 38 month low) and Austria (a 39 month low) in July, both reporting the lowest PMI values in this sector.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 19, 2016

In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. And we are still on a journey with many more opportunities,” the Vice President Supply Chain says.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Manufacturing Employment Impacts Across Europe and the United Kingdom , a significant period of production contraction has led to added manufacturing job losses.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

and the United Kingdom. The December report further indicated that global wide manufacturing new business intakes have declined for the eighteenth consecutive month of contraction. Manufacturing job losses were reportedly registered for the fourth consecutive month in December, with cuts noted in China , the Euro area , the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On a regional basis, Europe reportedly remained a principal drag on global factory output, along with contracting output in Japan and the United Kingdom. From our lens, this trend is mainly an indicator of seasonal holiday related demand and spending for the traditional holiday quarter.

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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. A relatively new index is The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI) , developed by a group of researchers at the U.S. Federal Bank of New York.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

United Kingdom. It would appear that many businesses are indeed factoring such risks, and that is going to make industry supply chain strategies far more challenging in terms of risk mitigation, capacity and inventory exposure. Similarly, the S&P Global / CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI® fell to a two-year low of 52.8

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

and China , but the European Union and the United Kingdom as well. We describe the likely appearance of broader forms of hybrid industrial and trade policy would evolve to be more aligned to national security and global competitiveness needs. Such actions are percolating not only in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

Across the United Kingdom , all eyes are on a threatened work stoppage involving dockworkers at the Port of Felixstowe , the country’s largest container shipping port. The Unite l abor union has already rejected an offer amounting to a 7 percent pay hike.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure. The NHS has outsourced its self-distribution network to a 3PL provider, as have some of the hospital groups in the United States. National Health Service, United Kingdom.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 2, 2018

Partners in the effort include Ethical Training Initiatives in the United Kingdom and Norway , and the Netherlands-based Solidaridad. “We Nordström says QuizRR is collaborating with other organizations that can provide that additional phase of training. We can combine our training with theirs,” says Nordström. “We

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Jaggaer

JULY 7, 2020

Unilever has research and development facilities in China, India, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States and does 57 percent of its business in emerging markets. The Challenge. The Contracts and Contracts Utilization Dashboards provide a series of reports on the number of contracts portioned by different dimensions.

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Unleashed

APRIL 4, 2022

These obligations vary from country to country, but generally any business will need to file its accounts with a government body, like the IRS in the United States, the IRD in New Zealand, ATO in Australia, and HMRC in the United Kingdom. This provides ease of use for employees and minimises time spent procuring products.

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