Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The world is rightfully concerned about Russia’s ruthless and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Bloomberg reports, “The crisis has driven oil prices toward $100 a barrel and sent tremors through other commodity markets too, threatening another wave of price pressures on top of already-high pandemic inflation.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Rogers pointed out three sources of food supply chain woes: war, COVID-19, and climate change. Transportation costs, which are bumping up food prices, are a particular concern for people living in poorer nations. Rising prices in one area inevitably cause price increases in other areas. ” Food Supply Chain Troubles.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

trailed both Saudi Arabia and Russia in oil production, and it trailed Russia in natural gas production. Over the same time period, we’ve seen crude oil prices bounce up and down between $140 and $40 per barrel. Over the same time period, we’ve seen crude oil prices bounce up and down between $140 and $40 per barrel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Hasbro plans to further hike prices of toys, warns of $100 million Russia hit. The United States Postal Service will slow delivery times for a third of its first-class packages in an effort to cut costs and its dependency on air transportation amid financial struggles. Amazon on path to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 17, 2022

A host of issues are starting to affect inflation and fuel prices in particular. It’s barely been a month since UPS fuel surcharges were the latest topic, but with fuel prices skyrocketing to surpass records, they are once again on the table and weighing on the industry’s collective minds. . The State of Fuel Prices.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2022

This latest updated forecast indicates that model simulations suggest a sizeable impact to global growth as well as the threat of higher prices, as much as a reduction of one percent GDP growth this year, and global inflation rates raised to upwards of 2 ½ percentage points in the first full year of the conflict.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2023

Launched in 2020, CommodityWatch AI uses real-time news and event monitoring and predictive analytics to forecast supply, demand, and pricing trends out to three months for commodities including but not limited: gold, silver, aluminum, copper, caustic soda, cobalt, helium, paper, and tin.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 11, 2016

He also renegotiated contracts with local suppliers in a bid to cut costs. He then went about renegotiating contracts with suppliers to set a target of 5% cost reductions (a target that, by the way, is considered a year over year requirement for suppliers in the automotive industry).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. The top producing nations by notion of highest PMI levels were noted as India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Greece and Russia. Prices are generally stable. Continued Contraction Levels for the U.S. representing a 1.2

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Alloy

MARCH 29, 2022

The devastation experienced by Ukraine and its people has prompted the western world to levy sanctions on Russia, the idea being to put so much pressure on Russia’s economy that they will pack up their military and go home. So far, energy prices have gone up drastically, but there is still plenty of oil and gas to go around.

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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 import needs.

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Elementum

AUGUST 28, 2017

It would also have the second largest land mass behind Russia, with about 5.4 The Food and Agriculture Organization runs various projects in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific regions to reduce post-harvest losses. Technology startups are also seeking to have a more substantial role in reducing food waste.

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Elementum

MAY 29, 2018

It would also have the second largest land mass behind Russia, with about 5.4 The Food and Agriculture Organization runs various projects in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific regions to reduce post-harvest losses. Technology startups are also seeking to have a more substantial role in reducing food waste.

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

Last year multiple companies needed to urgently relocate their employees and their families from Russia and Ukraine. At the same time, another company might have twenty suppliers with similar pricing strategies, who supply the same raw material. Let’s continue with this analogy. Think about these relocations!

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

The demand is subjected to change due to many factors drastically, including pandemics (COVID-19), war (Russia-Ukraine war), and last but not least technological advancements. The price is constant and independent to the quantity and time: [4]. Author : Emad Atef – CSCA, MBA (Candidate), Procurement and Sourcing Manager.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Trade and output will be weighed down by multiple shocks, among them being the war in Ukraine, high energy prices, inflation and monetary tightening. World GDP at market exchange rates is forecasted to increase by 2.8 percent in 2022 and by 2.3 percent in 2023 (revised downward from 3.2 Further Warning of Recession. Added Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

Reportedly, since Russia’ s invasion of Ukraine , global CEO s are confronting a world of extraordinary volatility and uncertainty, forcing many to reassess their growth assumptions and put strategic plans on hold. The noted overall theme from this survey were indications that recession. cyberattacks. Inflation are top of mind concerns.

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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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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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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

One recent escalation has been to ban the sale of EU goods inside Russia which is rather a throw-back to Cold War days when the same rule applied to iconic western branded goods like Coke and Wrangler jeans. Now it is a different matter as Russia is a little bit more important, if you allow me to adopt some BBC understating diction.

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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. In the first scenario, China could cut off advanced chip sales to the U.S. In the first scenario, China could cut off advanced chip sales to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The report, citing two informed sources, specifically indicates that between 30 percent and 50 percent of Foxconn’s and Jabil’s planned production output in August were affected by electrical power rationing. Once more, the report indicates that higher commodity prices predated the Russian hostilities.

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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. The Curse of Inflation.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Further indicated was that a reduction in new orders coupled with a sustained rise in employment levels led to success in clearing order backlogs. Supplier shortages and rising inbound costs contributed to what was noted as a rapid rise in operating expenses, resulting in higher selling prices. for June indicating growth in activity.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And because of the catastrophic impact on the global food supply, as well as food prices, more than a billion people could be pushed into famine and destitution. Between them, Ukraine and Russia account for approximately one-third of global wheat production.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2024

Input cost and output price inflation reportedly accelerated. What remains evident from our supply chain research perspective is that motivations for lowest cost sourcing remain an influence in global production activity levels in addition to added supply network resiliency. expansionary rate for three consecutive months.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

A growth spurt in the spring has quickly gone into reverse, with new orders for factory goods down for a second straight month in July, leading to the first drop in production for two years and sharply reduced employment growth.” The July 2022 Manufacturing ISM© Report on Business reported the lowest PMI value since June 2020.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

Source: JP Morgan and S&P Global, March 2022. The Prices Index , a measure of inbound cost increases, rose 11.5 Further noted by report authors was surging commodity, fuel and energy costs re-igniting input price increases in March which reportedly hit a four-month high. Global Wide Production Activity. reported for January.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 27, 2023

The industry is looking for ways to take the risk out of its supply chain, namely by reshoring or nearshoring supply to offset the worry about once-reliable sources. 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.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 8, 2023

pharmaceutical companies cutting back on production. Both reports indicate that economists still believe that the Eurozone GDP will return to growth in the current quarter on the basis of falling energy prices and increased employment levels. That led to a 17 percent annualized fall in Ireland’s GDP during Q1. percent in Q1.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2010, China restricted exports of rare earth elements to Japan following a territorial dispute, sending prices soaring and Japan scrambling to find alternative sources. However, when it comes to more advanced technology like satellites and military applications, silicon won’t cut it. Do other countries mine gallium?

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

to Asia , as well as the European consequences of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict as now driving added index volatility. Further was a dip in Transportation Price expansion, down 15.8 Transportation Price growth is down sharply (-15.8) Readers can dive into the data to ascertain specific increases in volatility components.

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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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