Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Transportation costs, which are bumping up food prices, are a particular concern for people living in poorer nations. Just as importantly, shipping delays can negatively affect getting fresh produce to market. Rising prices in one area inevitably cause price increases in other areas. Packaging constraints. ”[6].

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Resilinc

MAY 24, 2022

German trade group VCI reports that petrochemicals prices rose by 21.6% This period of high prices and margins coincided with—and was partly supported by—supply chain disruptions, including the February 2021 deep freeze on the Texas Gulf Coast and port and shipping congestion in much of the world.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

As the calendar now moves to the second half of 2022, it is important to focus on rapidly changing developments including a marked escalation in geopolitical tensions that impact global supply chain strategies. Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

Buy online, ship direct to consumer, return to brick and mortar store. Buy via mobile, ship to a third party location (like work or a hotel). You have to start thinking of your supply chain as providing a service, and you must develop a digital strategy, not just an ecommerce one, to deliver it. Global purchasing power.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 12, 2022

While some are shaking off their COVID-19 strategies, others are adjusting COVID-prompted changes into new business plans to address the latest global disruptions. While this doesn’t address what to do if an item is damaged in shipping , shipping companies will appreciate knowing that the parcel giant will continue to fly.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 14, 2022

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine intensifies the product shortage and price rise issues we have come to associate with Covid-19. Moderating forces will prevail Shortages of consumer goods and price hikes were on an upward track before the Russian offensive. The good news?—?if including myself?—?have

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

Last year multiple companies needed to urgently relocate their employees and their families from Russia and Ukraine. However, this model would aggregate the details of the ten thousand SKUs that are stocked and shipped. Let’s continue with this analogy. Think about these relocations! Their time frame was short and resources limited.

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Resilinc

MARCH 28, 2023

Asia Energy Crisis Currently, both China and Pakistan are suffering a major energy crunch from dwindling energy supplies and high global gas prices. While there is in fact enough natural gas to make it through until the warmer months hit, lack of budget and pricing regulations have resulted in a shortage ( New York Times ).

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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, businesses found ways to eliminate, avoid, or mitigate these disruptions. Trade basically ceased as ports closed because of western- imposed economic sanctions on Russia. Cargo planes could not fly out of or into Russia or Ukraine. Likewise, ships could not sail into or out of Russia and Ukraine.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 16, 2023

One day in August 2022, a group of military and defense strategy experts gathered in Washington, DC, to play a game that simulated a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan in 2026. and its allies would win while losing “dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and tens of thousands of servicemembers.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

Toyota Motor reported a 19 percent decline in total sales for the first six months of this year while Hyundai Motor reported a 23 percent decline in second quarter sales and a 16 percent sales reduction for the first half of 2022. The strategy was ill-timed given the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

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Proxima

AUGUST 25, 2022

Supply chains thrive on predictability, yet China’s continued zero-Covid policy is causing uncertainty and taking an economic toll at a time when we are learning to cope with other significant challenges, such as the fallout of the Russia – Ukraine conflict.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

India has again demonstrated the highest level of PMI growth and the report authors point to Greece, Indonesia, Russia and Brazil as demonstrating stronger rates of expansion. As stated, the March report pointed to further increases in both input costs and selling prices by the end of the first quarter. reflecting a 1.3

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As gas prices begin to creep up , shippers are growing anxious about what the coming months will bring. Despite falling short of last year’s holiday shipping traffic expectations, CEO Carol Tomé predicts a strong peak season in 2023, saying in a late July Earnings Conference Call , “ Inventory levels are good.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

He began by noting that the prices of commodities are jumping around, owing to the on-going concerns around suppliers and destruction of infrastructure. One of the biggest contributors to inflation is the increase of oil and gas prices, which will remain high as long as the conflict in the Ukraine rages. growth, and only 3.1%

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 31, 2023

UPS CFO Brain Newman indicated expectations of a bumpy year that includes rising interest rates, high inflation, ongoing hostilities among Russia and Ukraine , and continued Covid-19 disruptions across China. Some recovery is indicated for the second half.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations. You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. Once cargo has shipped, there are no “backsies.” By Ali Hasan Raza.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 3, 2022

A decline in new orders growth was linked in-part to customer push back on higher prices, material shortages and growing concerns related to the economic outlook. Further indicated was panelists continuing to note supply chain and pricing issues as their prime concerns. The price of diesel fuel now surpasses $5 per gallon in the U.S.,

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Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2022

Covid, Brexit and the war in Ukraine have all sent supply chain shocks around the globe, forcing firms to rethink their business-as-usual supply chain management strategies, and concentrate instead on building supply chain resilience. Risk management is central to all manufacturing production strategies.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

event of 2022, my colleagues, Christina Carroll, vice president of LTL, Alan Rowlett, director of global operations and strategy, and I set out to offer exactly that. As many of you have experienced firsthand, there are several factors influencing shipping today—most are adding challenges to an already constrained market. How is C.H.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 10, 2022

The consequences of weather-related strains on supplies of corn, soy, and other food commodities—on top of existing inflation trends and rising shipping prices—means that food prices will stay at or near their record highs thought 2022, according to analysts interviewed by UK-based grocery trade journal The Grocer.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 14, 2022

For instance, the recent war between Russia and Ukraine not only affected the petrol and oil prices significantly, but the war-imposed constraints on the ability to use Russian transportation infrastructure to support manufacturing in Asia, proving that this crisis requires a particular set of resilience capabilities.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the wild cards in terms of supply chain is the current geopolitical instability, with the war in Ukraine lingering and tensions heating up with China and Russia. Prices are rising. It has caused 80% of respondents in the Deloitte survey to report they’re raising prices further to compensate. Economic pressures.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

In just 21 months, the Producer Price Index went from -2% to almost 10% in year-over-year change. As companies began raising prices to cope with increased costs, consumers started seeing the impact on their own pocketbooks. Output stalls as price increases reduce demand and it becomes more expensive to borrow money.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 24, 2022

The data was reportedly tagged as either demand or supply driven to align with the classic relationship that supply, and demand has on prices. Adam Hale Shapiro, an economist at the San Francisco Fed conducted an analysis of over 100 categories of goods and services expenditures, over a 30-year period, that make-up the Fed’s PCE Index.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

This may include research and development, product manufacturing, product packaging, and shipping processes. Since one of the key benefits of reshoring and nearshoring focuses on lower shipping costs and increased quality, those companies who keep chasing the lower labor cost will hurt. Overseas supply chains reduce U.S.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

How the War in Ukraine is Impacting the Supply Chain and Raw Material Prices. Increased Prices Resulting from Shortages and Supply Chain Issues. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. In fact, Sherwin Williams cut sales by 3.5% Consultancy UK).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

Reportedly, global output fell across consumer, intermediate and investment goods sectors with inbound price inflation equaling record highs. as factories reduced or halted production as a result of local Covid-19 restrictions of population movement. value, up from 53.1 calculated for March. from the level of 47.2 reported for March.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. in March, while the average delay for late vessel arrivals decreased once again to 7.26

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 2, 2024

Of the 30 nations that were included in the June reading, India, Russia and Vietnam were the three most positive PMI readings. With two quarters of PMI reporting, production activity levels have increased but indications of lowest cost sourcing strategies remain an influence in global production in addition to added supply network resiliency.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I also worked with a team of leading thinkers in developing the Future of Procurement Report (published by KPMG) , as well as publish the BVL International Global Logistics Trends and Strategies report with a team of leading academics and executives in Europe, China, North and South America, Russia, and India.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 12, 2022

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported that, “Freight shipped across the U.S. With a global pandemic continuing to place bumps on the track and the Russia-Ukraine war negatively impacting sourcing and other capabilities, disruption is the most common occurrence within international and domestic supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2022

Among the messages communicated from the latest Amazon financial results were: Online retail shipping volumes declining 3 percent on a year-over-year basis, noted as the largest drop since 2016. This expanded service offering will initially start by invitation to certain Amazon merchants.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

This is also true with regard to the outlook for prices, with input cost and output charge inflation both accelerating in the latest month. ”. The Prices index declined 0.5 The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Yes, while I believe that we will be more choiceful on sourcing strategies and hopefully not blindly chase labor arbitrage or tax-efficient supply chain strategies, global supply chains will persist. Very little freight is moving with prices skyrocketing and many rerouting containers to Ningbo. We need to embrace variability.

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Taulia

MARCH 15, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compounded this difficult situation in early 2022. Energy prices immediately soared, with oil, coal, and gas shooting up 40%, 130%, and 180%, respectively, in the first two weeks of the war alone 2. Global inflation went on to hit 8.8% in the year to December 2022, compared with 5.4% in December 2021.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 19, 2022

And, following Russia’s unprovoked attack against Ukraine in February 2022, which spurred international sanctions, Russia, in retaliation, also halted fertilizer exports. Rising Fertilizer Prices. ” But high food prices aren’t the only concern. What does this mean for the food supply chain? ”[2].

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