Europe Manufacturing Procurement Shipping 
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Source: J.P. Global Manufacturing PMI Global Trade as a Barometer Clearly domestic business activity is much larger than international trade. But cross-border trade is an important part of the global economy and much of this trade is in physical goods that must be stored, shipped, transported, and eventually consumed.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 24, 2020
Phone calls to Europe or Asia were costly and of poor quality. By the early 2000s, phone calls to Europe from my cell were expensive but manageable. Like a rocket ship traveling to Mars, a new press release popped into my email each day. IBM purchased Sterling Commerce. A portal is an information dead-end street.
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QAD
MARCH 31, 2020
It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers. Inevitably, the procurement process is complex and challenging to manage. Purchasing for Complex Products.
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 20, 2022
Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.
ivalua
MAY 6, 2020
The key to Zara’s ability to establish an agile Supply Chain rests on the following unique approaches: Procurement Methodology: Zara’s Procurement team doesn’t work on the number of finished clothes but on the quantity of raw materials needed to manufacture the clothes. They ship very small batches twice a week.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Henkel was recently highlighted for supply chain leadership by Supply Chain Movement in Europe. The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. The second story is about a regional beverage manufacturer. Now, let’s take consumer products. Henkel is underperforming its peer group. The answer?
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Soft demand in Europe and the US led to an overall decline of 7.5 Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. A factory in Suzhou was the company’s main manufacturing site for its semiconductor test equipment, which it subcontracted to Flextronics.
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