Enterra Insights

JANUARY 28, 2022

Benjamin Wofford ( @BenWoffordDC ) explains, “Its model is built on hot food cooked by chefs.”[3] As explained more fully below, what is novel is that World Central Kitchen enlists the help of food service personnel who are thrown out of work by natural disasters. ”[3] Nothing novel there. million meals. ”[5].

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

COVID is far from over and food instability, coupled with drought, is driving migration from Sudan to Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine stretches into a much longer war resulting in serious disruptions to the food, automotive, and semi-conductor supply chains. The winter offers no relief.

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Alloy

MARCH 29, 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine has captured the attention of the entire world. The effects of this war are immediate on the Ukrainian people as well as have heavy implications for the rest of the world. The secondary impacts of the war are beginning to be felt more globally in supply chains, stock markets and other international operations.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Organizations face challenges such as geopolitical tensions, trade wars, natural disasters, and pandemics. The Resilience and Adaptability of Supply Chains Today Contradicting the notion that COVID showed that supply chains are broken, the pandemic actually highlighted the robustness and adaptability of supply chains.

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Logility

AUGUST 4, 2022

One example: egg prices are up 56% , according to the Department of Agriculture, driven up by drought, a bird flu epidemic and the war in Ukraine. It’s a bit like dinner guests who show up two years late, hungry, and wearing the wrong clothes. What’s worse, Americans are paying more for many of their staple goods.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Figure A shows the projections before the newer spending for defense. Are the port issues over?

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

producer prices rose more than forecast in October for the biggest jump in six years on broad gains in costs for goods and services, a Labor Department report showed on Nov. Excluding food and energy costs, the core PPI readings were also up more than forecast, rising 2.6% from the prior month, while food costs rose 1%.

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Unleashed

JUNE 22, 2022

Covid restrictions, Brexit, labour shortages, rapidly-changing customer demand and the war in Ukraine, have all contributed to shortages of key raw materials and components – squeezing margins and causing long lead times and higher prices for customers. Biggest reduction in lead times since the height of the pandemic.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Crockett explains, “Behind the beautiful, blood-red bracts of the poinsettia, there’s a story rife with geopolitics, patent wars, a dethroned monopoly, and complex supply chains.” at an 1829 flower show. ” History of Poinsettia The poinsettia is a plant native to Mexico. .” had phytosanitary regulations.

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Proxima

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Fueled by Covid, war, and supply shortages, inflation rates across key global markets including the UK and US have remained over the 2% target rate since April 2021, peaking at 11% and 9% respectively, in 2022. But what goes up, must eventually come down.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 23, 2023

You may want to buy some fudge or Spanish food after reading some of the highlights. Robots, Robots, Robots There were more robot vendors than ever before on the show floor, and attendees loved seeing all of the robots in action. Photo courtesy of Logiwa WMS) Logiwa WMS Met Sue the T.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

Why should states be in a bidding war for test kits? Figure 1 shows a market-by-market planning model by a sinus drug manufacturer. For example, how long will it take for the restaurant and food distribution supply chain to restart? Another example is testing. What good is a test unit when there are not enough swabs or reagents?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Before Covid-19, pressures resulted from slowing growth and trade wars and rising consumer expectations. Some food for thought. History shows, change is not natural, as are systems thinking or collaboration, which are essential to capture the benefits of the digital age. That’s what I continue to believe.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2022

”[4] Journalist Rachel Wolfe ( @rachelbwolfe ) reports big discounts on some items are likely to start showing up around Independence Day.[5] Now many of those same stores are grappling with a swift reversal of buying behavior, with consumers spending less on goods in favor of services and necessities such as food and fuel.”[6]

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IQMS

APRIL 15, 2021

Shipments are delayed; chip shortages become exacerbated by trade wars, tariffs, production, and logistics delays. Knowing with certainty what’s going on across the many suppliers that manufacturers rely on every day and getting back to customers quickly on their inquiries matters more than winning a price war.

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Kanban Logistics

JUNE 10, 2021

This has led warehousing and logistics providers to get into a large-scale bidding war where large providers offer salaries and benefits that the small and mid-size providers simply can’t compete with. labor report showed that there was “one qualified candidate for every six supply chain job openings.” A pre-COVID U.S.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JANUARY 23, 2019

How well are your existing logistics processes and technologies protecting you from negative consequences stemming from this impasse that shows no signs of imminent resolution? How is the longest government shutdown in US history impacting your transportation logistics operations?

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Unleashed

AUGUST 6, 2023

Risk of triggering a price war. Competitive pricing from one player in the market can trigger a price war, whereby another competitor undercuts the new price and the original mover’s pricing benefit is lost. Or would you rather offer a matcher-type deal that attracts customers but avoids setting off a price war?

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Efficiency gains create a first-level shield against rising costs and the fallout from a trade war. Following years of low inflation and stable trade relations, executive teams in boardrooms across the globe are now grappling with rising inflation, a rapidly changing trade environment and the dire threat of an all-out trade war.

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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Generally speaking, businesses continued to adapt to rising costs, inflation, recession, war, increased regulation, and remote work. We’ll look back to events in 2022 that show this transition and transformation in the making. Another geopolitical event, the Russo-Ukrainian war disrupted supply chain operations in a major way in 2022.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 8, 2022

Thousands of people showed up to various events uniting the suffragist and socialist causes, whose goals had often been at odds.”[2]. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, most attempts at social reform ground to a halt, but women continued to march and demonstrate on International Woman’s Day.” ”[2].

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Logility

MARCH 30, 2020

For the first time in history, shelves of stores across the globe that sell food, beverage and other fast-moving consumer goods (including toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning products) are nearly empty. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 25, 2022

Machine learning technology takes these goals to a new level to show abnormal spikes quickly and efficiently to identify the cause of price increases. COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and inflation provide modern examples of largescale factors outside of a company’s control that impact its supply chain and transportation spend.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Journalist Tracy McVeigh ( @tracymcveigh ) reports, “The figures are bad, progress has stalled and all the trends that had been building hope in the world becoming a fairer place are showing sharp about-turns. As bad as the data makes it seem, the real situation might be even worse.” We just have to accept that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

NielsenIQ’s data shows the market for nonalcoholic beer, wine and spirits grew more than 20 percent last year, and more than 120 percent over the last three years. Japan asks its insurers to retain marine war cover for LNG shippers in Russian waters. The market now sees almost $400 million in annual sales. The Plantation, Fla.-based

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 27, 2021

The war of words heated up again when “the Philippines became the world’s first country to approve the commercial production of genetically modified ‘golden rice’ that experts hope will combat childhood blindness and save lives in the developing world.”[1]. This war of words has been ongoing for decades.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Although the industry is multifaceted and varied, encompassing everything from household goods to food & beverage to apparel and more, most arms of the consumer goods industry are facing similar challenges. The ecommerce surge that started during the pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down. Supply chain woes.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

Freightos independent research shows 83% of shippers lack full milestone visibility. Independent Freightos research shows that 60% of people have experienced a breach in their tender agreement in the past year alone. Conversely you could no-show for a flight and arrive the next day and they would often honor your ticket.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 6, 2016

iv This is more than twice the average for larger-employing sectors, such as retail, accommodations, and food services. For every $1 manufacturing contributes to the economy, it supports an additional $1.81 in economic activity, greater than any other sector. This part of Hamilton’s report was pretty much ignored.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Some stated that the war marks the end of the global supply chain. COVID, inflation, climate change, and the Ukraine war are a layer of complexity with compounding effects. Now we layer on the impact of war. For the past three weeks, I attempted to move my fingers on the keyboard, but to no avail. My response is “Hogwash.”

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Kaizen first came about after World War Two and directly translated, it means improvement. In the food and beverage industry, it makes sense to implement a JIT inventory system as finished products for human consumption have a lifespan beyond which they are worthless. McDonald’s.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Many grocers have struggled with challenges in recent years that range from price wars to shrinking margins and from aggressive new players entering the marketplace to omnichannel shoppers demanding costly new conveniences. The competition within the grocery sector is fierce and will not likely get easier. Other blog posts.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 3, 2023

”[1] His depiction of the war as a “territorial dispute” faced backlash both from within and outside his party. Far from being a local territorial dispute, the war is having a global impact. ”[5] Beyond the potential food crisis, other security concerns about Russia’s actions are being expressed.

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IQMS

JULY 16, 2019

Cleanrooms Provide A Path Out Of Price Wars & Commodity Pricing. MAPP’s 2019 survey shows that the greater the level fo compliance expertise, the higher machine rates per hour plastics manufactures can earn. for Food & Beverage Containers. Proven Strategies For Improving Cleanroom Manufacturing. to a high of $61.00

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Elementum

AUGUST 9, 2022

In the process you lose both the five star meal — and the great food your favorite taco joint serves up. The same has been happening with desktop to mobile designs, so with Jon showing the way, Elementum now starts out with the mobile designs.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Finally, the concept of military logistics which implemented in WWII was key to the invasion of Normandy and the end of the war. Some governments also want to drive logistics services to share prosperity to connect remote areas and ensure food security. The World Bank has subsequently adopted a focus on logistics as a policy area.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

The reorientation, even reinvention, of the industrial supply chain over the past 50 years has transformed the way things are made: your toaster, your car, your computing devices, your food. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 per ton; the standardized container cut that cost to just 16 cents a ton … The U.S.

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