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Asia, better brace yourself for Usagi! He’s not in a good mood…

Supply Chain View from the Field

From a US import manufacturer perspective, it may be good enough to assume periodic natural disaster disruptions and develop climate adaptation supply chain contingency plans. One idea: import manufacturers might diversify production partner locations instead of having all of their product sources in a single basket.

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Supply chain security: local vs global

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Britain is the main source of imports for Ireland, making up more than 20 per cent in 2018 and 2019, despite uncertainty around the UK’s departure from the EU, according to the Central Statistics Office.

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Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

Supply Chain Matters

Boeing spun out this supplier, which was once a part of this plane maker’s internal production in 2005 in a major strategic sourcing move. Further reported is that Spirit is separately exploring the divesting of aircraft structures production located in Ireland, specifically for supporting aircraft producer Airbus. All rights reserved.

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EU-UK supply chains roiled by surprise tariffs, red tape, delays

Resilinc

Turmoil points to need for robust mapping of supply chains, rigorous analyses of alternate sourcing strategies. For example, retailers in Ireland—part of the EU—learned in the first days of 2021 that goods made in Ireland but shipped to and from their UK-based distribution centers are taxed when they re-enter Ireland. “A

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Stabilize in February

Supply Chain Matters

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , halted a consecutive five-months of contraction levels to that of no-change. The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI® had a February value of 47.3,

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Job opening: Associate Director European Distribution at Astellas

Supply Chain Movement

The products are made in our EMEA Astellas sites, which are based in Kerry (Ireland) and Meppel (the Netherlands). Alternatively they are sourced from contract manufacturers or Astellas sites outside EMEA. Supply Chain cares for all Astellas sales, of all affiliates in EMEA, all licensee customers and distributors.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 4-8, 2015)

Talking Logistics

It has 253 employees and is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Dublin, Ireland; and Brighton, England. And on the 3D printing front, CloudDDM announced the launch of its advanced additive manufacturing facility located on the UPS Supply Chain Solutions Campus at UPS Worldport®.