Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Considerable weakness was noted for both Germany (a 38 month low) and Austria (a 39 month low) in July, both reporting the lowest PMI values in this sector. The July report indicated that “ production volumes, new orders, employment and purchasing activity all declined at faster rates than in June.”

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

The PMI values reflective of Germany and Austria both reached 34-month lows in March while both led in the expansion of post-production inventories. Further concerning was that the volume of warehouse finished goods inventories rose to the greatest extent in four months.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

The Eurozone remains a drag on global manufacturing output with reportedly steep downturns again occurring in Germany and Austria. Growth expansion has returned across China and the U.S. along with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. Q1-2024 Highlights The average PMI level for the three months of Q1-2024 was 50.3 reflecting a 1.3

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

Countries experiencing sequential monthly lows were noted as France, Austria and Germany , the latter recording a 46.3 Counties reaching new highs were noted as Italy, noted as reaching a ten month high, Greece, Ireland and Spain. PMI value in February, the eighth consecutive month of contraction reporting. United States Two indices of U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

On May 4, we featured for readers the industry breaking news that Flexport will acquire the logistics the logistics fulfillment operations of online retail platform provider Shopify. In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp. based Livent Corp.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Germany remained as the lowest, followed by Austria, France and the Netherlands. manufacturing and procurement activity levels, namely the ISM Report on Business Manufacturing PMI , and the S&P Global U.S. The latest report pointed to broad based retrenchment among eurozone f actories.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Reportedly, with the exception of Greece , all other EU countries registered PMI declines, with Germany and Austria having the fastest rates of production declines. average of the three months of Q3, declined 1.5 percentage points from the average of Q2, and a significant 4.8 percentage point drop from the average of Q1.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

India again led all other regions, while Germany and Austria remain at highest levels of PMI contractionary levels. Business confidence levels remained positive, reportedly staying close to January’s nine-month high. Also noted was that average supplier lead times were broadly unchanged in February.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The lowest PMI performing regions were noted as Austria, Germany and France. Report authors indicated that the October survey data indicated pointed to European manufacturers again trimming their materials procurement activity levels. Business sentiment levels reportedly remained close to September’s 22-month lows.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2016

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