Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech kicks off our 2024 series with two acquisition announcements related to multiple supply chain providers. The software provides supply chain transparency and supplier mapping across supply chain tiers as well as data analytics, supplier scoring and traceability.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives of Amazon’s recently reported Q1-2024 financial performance. Q1-2024 Quarterly Financial Performance Once again, Amazon exceeded Wall Street and investor expectations in delivering stellar financial performance for the recent Q1 reporting period. billion in Q2-2023.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The first is that the vast collection of Amazon ’s customer data and insights continues to reinforce the importance of selection, inventory and delivery speed to customer loyalty, stickiness and frequent visits. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Despite some relief from inflationary pressures in recent months, businesses throughout the logistics industry and beyond are being forced to make difficult decisions. After a week of high-highs and low-lows within the global logistics industry, we’ve gathered the nine stories you need to know. In a welcome turn-of-events for the U.S.

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ThroughPut

MAY 24, 2024

Buffer Lanes – connections between different inventory buffers (items at sites) that define the flow of goods through the supply chain. Statistical Data – historical data on demand, lead times, and forecast errors inform optimization decisions. What are the Types of Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series, specifically in providing highlights on reported July 2024 global wide PMI activity levels. The latest data reinforces indications of a global manufacturing slowdown. The consumer goods sector reportedly expanded in July.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Overall, global activity reportedly showed signs of increased production output for consumer goods production levels but continued muted growth for intermediate supply network and investment goods production levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The hands-free gadgets send and receive data over the internet. Here are some of the higher profile announcements around sustainability initiatives: AIT Worldwide Logistics set a net-zero emissions target for 2035 in its first sustainability report. Canada’s Walmart tries ring scanners.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re in the consumer goods sector , seasonality affects items like pumpkin carvers, or food products, like Peeps. Some challenges stem from slow, non-data-driven planning processes, often supported by manual and tedious planning practices. Is your historical data not a reliable enough foundation for your forecast?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We previously highlighted data indicating that the peak inventory import period occurred in July. Further, with the Presidential election occurring in early November, the dynamics and logistics conditions can likely be highly amplified in media news cycles. On the ground knowledge is essential. All rights reserved. The post U.S.

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QAD

APRIL 6, 2021

The packaging industry has to stay on the forefront of change because what they produce affects so many other markets, like food and beverage, consumer goods and healthcare packaging. E-commerce in the US is forecasted to reach 24% by 2024. Sustainability will challenge the supply chain with new materials, sources and logistics.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

The depth and length of this slowdown will most certainly impact 2024. General economic data was forewarning of a moderate recession during the first two quarters of 2022. Because demand for consumer goods exceeded supply during early 2022, the manufacturing outlook was more a function of capacity to meet demand than demand itself.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Failure to reach an accord by October 31 would mean that levies on $10 billion of exports between the EU and US would automatically come back into force at the start of 2024. billion of goods stuck waiting in Mexico. West Coast, according to data from shipping platform Xeneta.

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