Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2023

Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that the company’s 60 percent sourcing of supplier manufacturing in the country was too much and industry reports pointed to stepped-up efforts to seek alternative sourcing options across Asia including India and Vietnam. Our sense was that Apple’ s experience, along with others involving U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Reportedly, the vast majority of detained goods were produced in either Malaysia, Vietnam or Thailand. A further indicated misnomer is that ESG certifications from third-party certification entities should address and avoid forced labor risks. The authors observe they are not a substitute for supply chain due diligence actions.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Industry journalist Camille Rustici provides an excellent overview of many of those risks.[2] 4] Ben Unglesbee, “ Extreme weather is 2024’s top supply chain risk: Everstream ,” Supply Chain Dive, 11 January 2024. [5] 6] Daphne Allen, “ Keep an Eye on These Risks in 2024 ,” Design News, 4 January 2024. [7]

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® posted a value of 54 in June, compared to a value of 51.7 Whereas, among a grouping of developing regions consisting of China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand , production and supply chain activity levels declined 2.4 reported for March. percentage points from Q1 to Q2.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Vietnam The S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® returned to expansion level with a reported value of 51.2 Report authors however, qualified that the domestic market demand was the prime source of activity growth. In December output growth achieved a 13 month high, the fastest rate in new orders since February 2021.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 28, 2021

Instead of relying only on China, consider manufacturing hubs such as Vietnam, Mexico and India which are likely to gain greater prominence.” “When Chinese factories closed in early 2020,” Krause observes, “manufacturers struggled to switch to other suppliers. ” 2.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

Business and supply chain focused media reports already point to increased supplier and manufacturing investment in regions such as Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, Vietnam and other regions as responses to added supply network resiliency or agility. Higher cost levels will need to be mitigated or reduced.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

Our commentary reiterated that over the last three years there were reports indicating that Apple was instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam , with the former garnering the most attention.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Investment firm Pimco indicated that countries such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia would benefit from China de-risking sourcing actions. Last month we made reference to a published report by The Wall Street Jour nal: As China Risks Grow, Manufacturers Seek Plan B and C and D. For those businesses located in the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 24, 2022

In addition to India, Vietnam has been another area under consideration for component or final assembly production of Apple’ s consumer electronics hardware products. It is estimated that China accounts for upwards of 95 percent of Apple ’s final assembly production capabilities in 2021.

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EcoVadis

JANUARY 25, 2019

While many brands have gathered worker feedback to increase engagement, when closely examined, the efforts have tended to be brand-centric with workers’ interests often overlooked or marginalized in favor of supply chain risk management. The findings reported in a new white paper from Gap Inc. Based on Verité’s findings, Gap Inc.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 23, 2024

Accomplished procurement veteran and author Tom Linton provides valuable insights into the supply chain risk management landscape in 2024 in this exclusive Q&A. What are the biggest supply chain trends we will see in 2024, and how can managers prepare for those trends? We are going to see huge breakthroughs.

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2015

As production grows to meet global demand, the associated risks also increase as a result. According to Resilinc, a provider of supply chain resilience and risk management intelligence and analytics, there are a handful of things that can cause significant disruption. billion in Vietnam and China.

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2015

As production grows to meet global demand, the associated risks also increase as a result. According to Resilinc, a provider of supply chain resilience and risk management intelligence and analytics, there are a handful of things that can cause significant disruption. billion in Vietnam and China.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a prior blog posting authored by our research arm, Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks , highlighted two recently published research studies proving data of both a reallocation of component and production sourcing away from China and favoring areas such as India , Vietnam and Mexico.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 10, 2015

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has also raised the alarm regarding slavery in the supply chain, releasing a new Risk Index Report identifying China, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Myanmar as the five highest risk countries for human rights violations.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 23, 2017

By deploying the “fast fashion” business model, the apparel industry began to outsource garment manufacture to suppliers and subcontractors in low-cost countries, such as China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Often companies rely on a qualitative or “gut heavy” process to identify plausible risks. 1] Lambert, D.M.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As the year 2022 comes to a close, business and supply chain focused media reports already point to increased supplier and manufacturing investment in regions such as Mexico, Eastern Europe , India, Vietnam and other regions. . Anticipated Supply Chain Business Process and Technology Enablement.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres. The best way to address risk through outsourcing is to choose service providers with robust risk management programs.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

He has a combined 32 years of research and teaching experience in Australia, Singapore, China, Dubai, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Most recently, he was a visiting professor at NUS-Singapore, MIT SCALE Network – Malaysia, Wollongong-Dubai, Curtin-Australia as well as in Indonesia and Vietnam.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Sectors such as apparel, which have shifted production to countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, may see reshoring in the long run. However, the risks always exist and are augmented with further globalization and integration of supply chains. That is a shift of mindset in risk management and business continuity.”.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Among the six countries that our research arm monitors in the Developing Economies category ( China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand ) the average PMI value for Q3 was 52.1, However, report authors indicated that demand increases were generally driven from domestic needs as opposed to export needs.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

"The dangers are higher and the risks are more pronounced—but at the same time, we’re getting better at planning and responding.". Sheffi has made a career out of researching supply chain risk management. By closely following the state of global supply chains, he has become an expert on how to manage the unmanageable.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

What is happening to BMW today is another case study in supply chain risk management. For related commentary, see my June 2015 post, Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management.]. struck Vietnam. At 9:05am today, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 18, 2016

Over the past few years, I’ve written extensively about the growing importance of supply chain risk management and supply chain mapping, including the following: Rethinking Supply Chain Risk Management. Doing Nothing on Supply Chain Risk Management. struck Vietnam. Do You Have a “Top 25″ Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

Countries such as India , Vietnam and others welcome an Apple supply network presence with open arms. India along with Vietnam have the potential to be other significant markets for smartphones and consumer electronics as employment and income levels increase over the coming years.

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Resilinc

MARCH 29, 2022

Japan, for example, ended all “quasi-emergency measures” on March 22 for 18 prefectures; Vietnam re-opened its borders to visitors on March 16; a surge in South Korea has led to a 10% rise in container shipping rates in one month.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Other recent factors exacerbating the delays include the Suez Canal blockage, COVID-19 outbreaks at shipping hubs in Southern China as well as factories in Vietnam and Bangladesh, and floods in Western Europe and China’s Henan province.” Shortages of longshoreman, truck drivers and warehouse workers have also slowed the flow of goods.

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QAD

JUNE 13, 2023

Recent trends have made it clear that diverse supply chains, strong supplier relationships and risk management strategies like reshoring are more important than ever. India, Africa, Vietnam and Mexico also offer low-cost labor, but supply chains there must also be managed ethically and take time to build.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2024

The beneficiaries have been India and Vietnam from an Asia perspective and Mexico from a near-shoring perspective. Supplier risk increasingly involves far broader dimensions that now span financial, operational, product design, quality and regulatory conformance dimensions. Added Evidence Data According to U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2020

Heading the list of alternative manufacturing hubs are Vietnam, India, Thailand, and Mexico. The study also found that US companies were sourcing their traditional imports from China in other Asian countries instead, notably Vietnam, and, closer to home, Mexico, as they weighed surety of supply against costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We have highlighted various published reports over the last three years of Apple instructing its contract manufacturers to begin evaluating and seeking out new hardware sourcing outside of China , specifically India and Vietnam. There were certainly opportunities presented not only involving India and Vietnam , but Eastern Europe and the U.S.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

Final Observations We will continue to see more Alt-Shoring (think Vietnam or the Philippines vs. China), Near-Shoring and Re-Shoring for manufacturing as political and cultural shifts will continue combined with risk management decisions impacting these supply chain decisions as well.

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