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Global Supply Chains in Flux as U.S. Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Take Effect

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auto parts are sourced from Mexico, making the tariff impact immediate and severe. Mitigation Strategies in Agriculture Farmers are exploring new export markets in South America and Europe to compensate for declining North American sales. Approximately 40% of U.S. Vehicle production costs in the U.S.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

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For example, a redundant supply chain may have safety stocks, contingency contracts, multiple sourcing, and diversified networks to ensure the availability and continuity of supply. The port serves as a gateway for exporting coal to Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as importing coal from Canada and Colombia.

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Ivalua Continues Momentum with Record Annual Sales and Customer Acquisition

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Canada, the Middle East, South America and Asia are now using Ivalua’s platform to power their digital transformations, improving efficiency, reducing costs, managing risk and growing revenue. “We Many other innovations spanning the Source-to-Pay process. Hundreds of the most admired companies from Europe, the U.S.,

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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

When the added costs of transportation and inventory working capital impacts are added, there is a solid logic to bringing manufacturing back to North America. Mexico has become more attractive, and many companies are looking at alternative sourcing in Latin and South America.

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

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Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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Air Freight Rates Peak, Ocean Rates Slowly Sink: Freight Rate Update W50

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FIGURE 1: LAG ON 2016 RATES BY TRADE LANE (Source: Freightos International Freight Index). Europe-South America Atlantic. Europe-South America Pacific. Four weeks ago, soon after Europe’s air congestion began, China-Europe rates started catching up with last year’s levels (although they still lag 12% behind).

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Ivalua Sees Accelerating Momentum with Another Record Year in 2018

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2018 new customers include industry leaders such as Ericsson, Strabag, the State of Ohio , Saab, Dole, Baylor Scott & White Health, Bpifrance, America Movil , Danieli, Michigan State University , Orange and over 40 other of the most admired brands. 2019 revenue is expected to continue to grow rapidly and exceed $100M.