Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights published reports indicating that leading semiconductor fab and device manufacturer TSMC is eyeing a second fab production presence in the U.S. based fabrication facility. However, the report cautions that TSMC has not made a final decision relative to this announcement.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Major semiconductor customers and industry manufacturers, undertaking their own supply network resiliency evaluations, continue to elect to diversify fab production presence across major product demand regions. Apple’s exclusive chip-manufacturing partner. based suppliers that manufacture electronic components.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Added Development Silicon Valley based premium class electric auto vehicle designer and manufacturer Lucid Group will reduce the company’s U.S. However, multiple business media reports indicate that Rawlinson’s email to all employees indicated that the latest cuts will not involve hourly manufacturing and logistics workforces.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

No company in either the household non-durable (consumer goods) or the food manufacturing group beat their peer group on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for 2013-2022. The paradigm needs to change to buck the trend.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2023

The organization said that it will not be able to begin manufacturing chips in 2024, as originally planned, due to a skilled worker shortage.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W. In this Q&A, Chaturvedi shares his views on rebuilding American manufacturing, reshoring, nearshoring, and other topics of the moment in supply chains. Carey School of Business. That’s good news.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 16, 2024

billion grant awarded to Taiwan based TSMC to build advanced semiconductor fab capabilities in Arizona. Commerce Department has awarded a $6.4 billion grant to Samsung Electronics to build an advanced semiconductor fab capabilities in Tyler, Texas. The move follows a $6.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. It turns out the Super Bowl happened on February 12 th in Glendale, Arizona.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2023

TSMC to Construct its First European Chip Fabrication Facility Industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) announced this week that the Taiwan based producer will construct its first European based chip facility that will be located in Germany. legislation, hence the delay.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

There will still be a workforce needed to maintain those driverless vehicles or costs associated with maintenance done by the manufacturer or a 3rd party.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2023

That is not good for retailers and manufacturers, each under the looking glass to reduce not only transportation but also inventory carrying costs. Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of the March Logistics Manager Index which indicates that U.S. freight rates have reached their lowest levels in nearly six years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, ResMed, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Subaru, Toro, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company. Congrats to all.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The ability to ramp up and sustain manufacturing output is a further challenge in order to generate needed cash to sustain operations. In March of 2023, Supply Chain Matters highlighted a report indicating a manufacturing reorganization with Rivian.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 7, 2023

is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company which has emerged as a prominent player in the highly competitive automotive industry. With its manufacturing operations situated in Normal, Illinois, Rivian’s presence has had a profound impact on the local economy. billion in financing.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Other insights pointed out in the May LMI report are that the current rate of contraction is strongest in upstream firms, namely manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, compared to their downstream retail industry counterparts. Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s release of the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. There are three reasons why: Vertical excellence—having the best manufacturing, procurement or transportation function—has not worked. ” Yes, I said.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2022

manufacturing facilities. And the largest net jump in jobs forecast came in computer and electronics due mostly to investment in semiconductor manufacturing such as Taiwan-based TSMC’s $12 billion investment in a 5nm node fab in Phoenix, Arizona. In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

Implications The June report’s narratives and implications can be viewed from two increasingly different frames of reference, one being the logistics and warehousing services industry, the other being manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and businesses that are anchored in supply chain cost sensitivities.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 5, 2014

But, with the help of the operations research team at Arizona State University (ASU), we now think that we have it right. In July our focus will be on the healthcare sector (hospitals, medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies). It is core to our mission at Supply Chain Insights.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 11, 2023

ERG will sell 3,000 metric tons of contained cobalt metal to EVelution annually, which will be used to build an Arizona-based low-carbon cobalt sulfate plant starting in 2024.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Chuck has significant operational experience having served as the Chief Procurement officer for The Schwinn Bicycle Company, Ping Golf, Troy Built as well as a procurement officer for Maricopa County Arizona. It should be noted that, with the exception of Schwinn, Chuck began work with these organizations as a Supply Chain Consultant.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To address these challenges, Kairos Research Professor Handfield, Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative , and Professor Thomas Choi of Arizona State University, recently launched a new effort aimed at identifying hidden risks within complex supply chains. nodes”) comprising a manufacturer’s supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing. Digital manufacturing is also a disruption. I was wrong.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Global Production Stabilization In our recently published monthly summary of November’s global PMI reporting , our research arm noted that with one month remaining, the year 2023 will likely be depicted as one of global manufacturing recessionary conditions. That trending, along with the latest U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The takeaway for September was that global manufacturing activity officially fall below the 50.0 As we have noted in our September and Q3 PMI highlights commentary, more manufacturers and retailers will be focused on efforts to offload excess inventories over this final quarter. Logistics Managers Index.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

The Logistics Managers Index Report® , compiled by researchers at Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the University of Nevada Reno , and in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), reported an April 2023 value of 50.9,

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

This work is based on a collaborative project with Arizona State University. My question for the Arizona State team was, “ How do I best define a technique that can represent the randomness of this pattern?” The data sets are quite different in both the mean, the range and the standard deviation.

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Supply Chain Network

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The theme of the event, held February 25-28 in Phoenix, Arizona, is Reinventing the Retail Supply Chain: Accelerating What’s Possible. RILA members include more than 200 retailers, product manufacturers, and service suppliers, which together account for more than $1.5 About RILA.

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AB&R

MARCH 2, 2023

How to Get a New Arizona Facility Running Optimally in a Hurry If you’re setting up a new warehouse or manufacturing facility in Arizona, you will want to make sure you’re being as efficient as possible in everything you do. The post How to Get a New Arizona Facility Running Optimally in a Hurry appeared first on AB&R.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

A balance sheet analysis shows that 95% of publicly traded manufacturers are stuck (when compared to peer group) at the intersection of growth and margin, margin and inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and growth. We don’t have a clear industry definition of supply chain excellence.

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ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

,” I talked about Gartner’s first-day focus at their Supply Chain Executive Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations.

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

APRIL 26, 2017

NeoGrid, a global technology provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, has announced that chief operating officer Gilson Torii will co-present a session at the 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference scheduled for 22-25 May in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This methodology, termed the Supply Chain Index, was developed in partnership with the Operations Research team at Arizona State University. As part of the panel, four ex-AMR analysts –Roddy Martin, Mickey North Rizza, Lora Cecere and CJ Wehlage– will share insights on the results and the trends.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 1, 2023

is expected to choose Arizona, Nevada or Texas to house the battery plant. By early summer 2023, Coulomb Solutions Inc.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The IHS Markit Manufacturing PMI™ reported a value of 57.3

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 12, 2019

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is part of a new series we’re launching called “Practitioner Perspectives” — commentaries written by supply chain and logistics practitioners from manufacturing and retail companies who want to share their insights and advice on industry trends and topics. The $4,000 Transportation Question.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 15, 2020

Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, writes, “The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. ”[1] He adds, “Dependence on China for their manufacturing has put small and midsize businesses in jeopardy. Hitendra Chaturvedi, a professor at the Supply Chain Department of W.P. ”[4]. .”

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