Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A big part of sustainability initiatives includes the use of ethical sourcing. Ethical sourcing is the process of ensuring that the products made are obtained through responsible and sustainable methods. While we have seen more companies promoting ethical sourcing, does the consumer really care? Ethical Sourcing.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 22, 2024

From a supply chain sourcing perspective, a consistent theme in media reporting has been exploration or hints for added Apple supply chain sourcing. Production currently sourced include products such as iPad , AirPod and the Apple Watch. Apple has been a master at exercising many such strategies.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on added developments which now indicate that consumer electronics icon Apple is accelerating actions to source the company’s hardware component and assembly production to other countries. Challenges have always surrounded the company’s reliance on China. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights concerns raised by automotive industry interests regarding evolving component sourcing among China based suppliers within Mexico. Reportedly, key China based component suppliers are setting up corporate entities with the assistance of U.S. The report: To Avoid Hefty Tariffs, China’s BYD Eyes U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Such actions were to include mitigation of risks related to China based sourcing, which is now commonly referred to as a China Plus sourcing strategy. China ’s national and local government officials had actively nurtured a relationship with Apple recognizing its worker employment potential.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2021

This potentially affects cotton products from countries other than China that use Chinese cotton inputs such as cotton fabric. According to the US Customs and Border Protection, the importer of record is responsible to prove its products do not contain any material, in whole or part, sourced from XUAR. 2) Destroy the merchandise.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In these unstable times, keeping most of your sourcing eggs in the China basket has become inadvisable, and companies appear to be putting a lot more energy and resources into finding alternatives to the world’s workshop. As I described in my 2020 post Moving Out of China? As I described in my 2020 post Moving Out of China?

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a published report indicating that PC maker Hewlett Packard is modifying supply sourcing akin to China Plus and nearshoring sourcing actions. That would include alternatives to China under the umbrella of either China Plus or de-risking sourcing changes.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Together with military alliances, trade agreements helped bind together the major free-market democracies, their growing prosperity serving as an effective counter to the centrally planned economies of the Soviet Bloc and the People’s Republic of China.”[1]. Hyper-globalization and the rise of China. ”[1]. political aisle.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary, founder Bob Ferrari highlights Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent trip to China which provides an example of the implications to today’s businesses for more closely aligning business and supply chain strategy in the post pandemic global environment. Mr. Cook had joined a number of U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional published reports and actions that indicate that branded companies such as Apple are actively strategizing a China Plus supply network and production strategy. These economies grow with the development of the labor intensive industries, which in-turn triggers another round of transfers.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

Whether to relocate supply or manufacturing from China to another low-cost country or switch to a near-shoring or re-shoring strategy is not a decision to take lightly. Which Large Enterprises are Pulling Back From China? That said, it’s expected that the majority of manufacturing capacity will remain in China.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 4, 2020

According to Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, “There’s almost no industry sector — and when I say that, I mean manufacturing and nonmanufacturing — that isn’t reliant on China in the United States. … If you don’t have a first-tier supplier who’s sourcing from China, then your supplier’s supplier is.”[1]

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2021

3] Following year-long discussions about supply chain resilience, the Economist reminds us, “Resilience comes not from autarky but from diverse sources of supply.”[4] 4] Staff, “ Global supply chains are still a source of strength, not weakness ,” The Economist, 3 April 2021. [5]

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports indicating that Europe based Airbus will double China based aircraft final assembly output by 2024. The Announcement Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Airbus announced plans t o double the production of the company’s final assembly production capabilities within China.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You might think that the recent spate of supply chain disruptions would have caused a stampede of manufacturers out of China, or at least prompted them to diversify sourcing. But that hasn’t been the case.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2024

However, as the WSJ report points out, the challenge and backdrop of this announcement stems from China and that country’s ambitions in chip manufacturing, “ which have been stymied by U.S. As noted in our prior blog commentary, availability of government standards loom large for both India and China. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The luster of China as a source of low-cost production has been progressively fading, and the push for more responsible supply chains extends well beyond measuring carbon emissions.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2023

based companies doing business within, or sourcing supply chain materials and production within China. Specially related to China , Apple alone experienced multiple days of production shortfalls involving Foxconn’s Zhengzhou “ iPhone City ” manufacturing complex resulting in a revenue shortfall for iPhone14 holiday orders.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog provides supply chain focused perspectives on this week’s indications of slower economic growth across China. Background This week, China’s Statistics Agency reported that the country’s economy grew a disappointing GDP growth rate of 6.3

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

In this Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Thought Leadership Perspective viewpoint, we highlight added signs of China and global-wide production contraction and the implications of such trending. China ’s imports reportedly declined 12.4 The country’s exports in July declined 14.5 The country’s exports in July declined 14.5

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 23, 2018

“Catch the goat when it’s passing” is one of my favourite Chinese sayings, and it is particularly apt when you’re looking to source new products or materials in China. That’s right: that I had not yet found my supplier for the job, and that this supplier had very little experience in producing the product I wanted to source.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Importing From China! Fortunately, there is a way for you to solve these supply chain issues, though, and it involves partnering with a 3PL fulfillment agent in China. Here are the three ways a 3PL fulfillment agent in China can keep your e-commerce company competitive. Subscribe Here! Email Address. The Essential Guide!

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! This underscores the importance of China being the world’s manufacturing hub in the past decade, and most likely for the next few decades. Introduction. Chinese Business Directories.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This post from Amber Road’s blog discusses several factors companies must consider if they are thinking of moving out of China as a manufacturing or sourcing base. There has been a lot of recent buzz about companies relocating sourcing or manufacturing out of China. It’s easy to understand why.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 10, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights yesterday’s announcement that Tesla will construct and operate a Megapack storage battery production facility in China. The Announcement Tesla indicated plans to construct and operate a large scale battery production facility in Shanghai , China. All rights reserved.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 20, 2020

COVID-19 and the Future of China Sourcing and Manufacture. Dun & Bradstreet researchers , for example say 51,000 companies, 163 of which are in the Fortune 1000, have “tier 1” suppliers in China, while at least 5 million have one or more “tier 2? Factors That Could Complicate Departure From China.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Multiple published reports, including China based media, indicate that global wide electric vehicle producer Tesla has acquired land to be able to construct and produce this provider’s Megapack battery packs. Additional Perspective The trade relationships and supply network specific protectionist policies among China and U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Airbus ’s recently announced aircraft orders from three China based airlines and the likely industry and supply chain implications. The airlines involved include Air China , with an order of 96 aircraft, China Eastern , with an order of 100 aircraft, and China Southern , with an order of 96 aircraft.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 16, 2023

After running the game 24 times in seven hours, the group found that the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and other allies would likely defeat China and preserve Taiwan’s independence—but at enormous costs. How can the US prepare for a China-Taiwan war? What will happen to semiconductors if China invades Taiwan? Meanwhile, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Background. The basis of this reporting is twofold.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Health officials abroad have been struggling to work out the scale of the outbreak and how to stop it spreading, with more countries introducing measures such as pre-departure COVID tests for arrivals from China, moves that Beijing has criticised,” reported Reuters on January 4. Some good news: Reuters cited WHO statements on Jan.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 13, 2022

To mitigate China’s dominant position in mining and refining lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, manganese, rare earth elements and other critical green-energy minerals, the United States and some of its allies are subsidizing domestic investment and setting up new barriers to trade and investment with China. China produced 84.6%

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our readers added perspectives on this week’s reports indicating that Apple has initiated plans for production of the upcoming new model iPhone14 to be sourced from both China and India. That would allow such sites the ability to foster independent processes from that of China.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing. Prediction Two of this year predictions indicated the following: Restoring More Direct Control in Strategic and Tactical Direct Material Sourcing Will be the Driving Force for Businesses and their Supply Chain Management Teams in the Coming Year. Mid-Year Assessment.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Below is an excerpt from a report published recently by Amber Road and the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) titled “ The Trade Trends Report: 2017 Report on Sourcing, Trade, and e-commerce.” This bring concerns for transportation costs as we see as the #2 area of importance for sourcing.

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