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Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Inspired by McKinsey’s 2020 consultancy report, which emphasizes transforming supply chains rather than temporary fixes, we believe a comprehensive approach to reskilling supply chain professionals is essential to meet future demands. Many traders and retailers faced inventory shortages due to delayed deliveries of goods.

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Global Production Activity Levels Remain in Contraction at the End of 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with December 2024, Q4-2024 , and year-end global supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI reporting. Morgan and S&P Global Market Intelligence reported a continuation of contractionary activity levels in the final month of 2024. for December, down from a 50.0

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

Gartner analyst Debashis Tarafdar says that the large size of a country (like India, China or Indonesia) can mean “significant polarization of population between urban and rural with distinctly different buying capabilities and purchasing preferences. The challenges can be multi-faceted: High logistical costs. Transfer taxes.

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November Global PMI Reporting Reflects Some Stabilization

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlights and added insights on reported November 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. reported in October. in November.

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October Global PMI Reporting-Continued Production Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlighting and added insights on reported October 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. value reported for September.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Their scalable solutions have proven to help companies reduce their logistics costs and optimize their supply chains. Tracking the inventory and reorder point gives organizations complete control over their stocking policies is one of the many functions that it deploys.

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How the Supply Chain Can Thrive in the Face of Natural Disasters

Material Handling & Logistics

More devastation from different natural disasters seems to have been reported in the last year than we’re typically used to seeing. In the past year alone wildfires have ravaged California, multiple hurricanes have hit South America, and Indonesia has been rocked by a deadly earthquake and tsunami that caused thousands of fatalities.