Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Walmart shipped one quarter of its U.S. companies to import more from countries including India, Thailand and Vietnam. In other Walmart news, the company is importing more goods to the United States from India and reducing its reliance upon China as it looks to cut costs and diversify its supply chain.

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All Things Supply Chain

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Apple consider transfer of iPhone production to India or Vietnam after protests in China Apple are reportedly considering moving the means of production of the iPhone amid the workers’ continued…

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

During the pandemic when no one was flying, the snacks were packaged for different uses and shipped elsewhere. What’s going on in Vietnam? Before July, COVID-19 wasn’t widespread in Vietnam, but since then, over 10,000 cases have been identified. Find out more in our recent blog post The Case of the Missing Airport Snacks. .

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

As a leading energy and urban solutions provider, Sembcorp has more than 5.7GW of renewable energy portfolio across key markets such as Singapore, Vietnam China, India and the UK. Partnering with Sembcorp to achieve your sustainability targets. Our electricity bills have doubled due to recent events.

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Demand Solutions

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

XYZ is now outsourcing a lot of its manufacturing to Vietnam. “Our whole staff is complaining about working with Vietnam,” Green tells Smith, XYZ’s founder, at one of their Friday lunches. Green tries the same test with a shipping manager at one of XYZ’s new suppliers in Brazil. But there’s a snag.

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Freightos

MARCH 10, 2016

Transpacific Shipping in 2016. The world’s most popular route is still chock full of surprises, including: Vietnam has emerged as star exporter to the U.S., Drewry did the math, and despite last-ditch carrier attempts with cancelled sailings and increased idling of ships, lower ship loads will continue through 2016.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In mainland China (and even in other countries that celebrate the holiday such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei), the Chinese New Year holiday is a very big deal. Shipping delays. For some Americans, the holiday comes and goes without them even noticing.

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QAD

JANUARY 9, 2020

Laem Chabang, another major seaport, is also a container port, making it easy to ship goods by sea. Manufacturers have many shipping options and can choose the best mode for shipping their products, balancing location, speed and cost. Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Australia and Malaysia. billion worth of goods.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Shipping costs are also expected to spike upwards. It raised its prowess from running mere factories to one that offered a complete value chain: from research and development to shipping and fulfillment. China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia produced Japanese branded goods. Drop Shipping Will Face a Decline.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Leveraging smart sensors, AI, and business intelligence tools can enhance supply visibility, optimize shipping costs, accurately forecast demand, and effectively control inventory. He has a combined 32 years of research and teaching experience in Australia, Singapore, China, Dubai, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

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QAD

JULY 18, 2024

The Pivotal Role of Landed Costs Landed cost analysis plays a crucial role in various aspects of your business operations, impacting several key areas: Product Pricing Precision – Failing to account for landed cost can lead to inaccurate product pricing, resulting in insufficient revenue to cover all shipping expenses. 20 (duties) + $.40

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 9, 2021

When products are available, shipping has gotten choked up due to historically heightened demand , COVID-related port shutdowns and storm-created chaos. Seventy-three cargo ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday, a record. Port closures and shipping container shortages.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The enforcements of draconian lockdowns, various economies have experienced severe shocks, adversely affecting global trade, global tourism & travel, International Aviation and Airports as well as International Shipping and Ports. SMEs have been hit hard with mounting job losses and financial haemorrhaging. FTAs and Trade Flows.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Most impacted are Asian exporters such as China, Vietnam, and Malaysia where rigorous policies to contain any COVID-19 outbreaks are leading to factory and port shutdowns. Outbreaks in Vietnam and other Asian countries are being met with strict quarantine and distancing policies to prevent the infections spreading.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Closed borders, quarantine restrictions and social distancing requirements for staff combined with an explosion in delivery demand from online retail sales made for a tough period of shipping delays and warehouse backlogs across the globe. Essentially, demand for deliveries skyrocketed yet the capacity of delivery firms shrunk.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

As more data sources get legible, whether it’s container ship movements, eAWBs or carrier rates , it can have incredible ramifications. But a strike at a port in Germany or a typhoon off the coast of Vietnam, while temporary, can have major implications for supply chains. But even since July 2020, much has changed. And they are.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

Tracking your shipment’s status via GPS or Internet of Things (IoT) devices and viewing route duration data throughout the entire shipping process in real-time will allow you to quickly make informed business decisions to optimize productivity and streamline your supply chain. Then he made a career change to shipping.

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RFgen

JULY 12, 2013

Recognizing a need to improve the efficiency of its global supply chain, Nestle recently announced that it is building a new storage and shipment facility in Vietnam. Bloomberg reported that Vietnam is one of the top coffee growing countries in the world , and more robusta coffee beans come from there than from anywhere else.

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RFgen

JULY 12, 2013

Recognizing a need to improve the efficiency of its global supply chain, Nestle recently announced that it is building a new storage and shipment facility in Vietnam. Bloomberg reported that Vietnam is one of the top coffee growing countries in the world , and more robusta coffee beans come from there than from anywhere else.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

resultant bottlenecks have led to recent costly delays of up to five days for ships waiting to unload at critical West Coast ports, stranding thousands of containers. In the U.S., The congestion has exhausted warehouse space and affected the trade-offs to trains and trucks. ”[4].

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

Starting from the early 1990s, North American and European manufacturers made a beeline to set up factories in China, India, Vietnam and other Asian and African countries where labor was dirt-cheap and the cash-strapped governments of those countries were more than welcoming. Rising costs of labor in China and other places.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

To support this, Indonesia announced that it would launch an acceleration scheme aimed at shipping at least 1 million tonnes of crude palm oil and derivatives. Vietnam, for instance, seen by some as a close rival to China, is 87 percent less productive than China with respect to daily output per daily wage. Digital skills gap.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape. We can observe this quite clearly in the growth experienced in countries like Vietnam, India as well as Hungary and Mexico.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

The benefits of reshoring include more control over the supply chain, lower shipping costs, and increased adaptability to market changes. Key countries that businesses are moving to include India, Thailand, and Vietnam. For example, companies like Apple, General Electric, and Ford have moved some manufacturing back to the US.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2020

Lucky are the companies that can shift production to other countries like Mexico or Vietnam. Adaption: Autonomous decision-making and material handling systems allow companies to flexibly adapt to different scenarios and better prepare for the factors that might impact their ability to ship and receive materials.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

2015 was a big year in terms of logistics and globalization for Amazon, who began making their way into the shipping industry, registering in China as a freight forwarder and a shipping broker for 12 routes, including Shanghai to Los Angeles and Hamburg. Lazada now owns Redmart and Alibaba has a controlling stake in Lazada.

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Elementum

MAY 26, 2022

2) Ship to the US and Western Europe. They expanded first into other parts of eastern Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, India), then into eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine) and Mexico. If that were not enough, consumers have also grown to expect (and demand) full transparency of the entire shipping process, down to the item level.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Heading into this year, the global shipping disruptions that impacted transit times related to having to avoid the Suez Canal because of Red Sea terrorist attacks, or reduced water levels in the Panama Canal requiring reduced transit slots were generally mitigated. Global wide manufacturing activity levels as measured by the J.P.

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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. Sharp New Business Growth Levels in Vietnam The S&P Global Vietnam Purchasing Managers Index® for June was headlined with near record highs in new order growth, reportedly the sharpest increase since March 2011.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Lots of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to the items that caught my attention: Amazon now ships to your Audi’s trunk ( USA Today ). Robinson Expands Asian Operations to Vietnam. Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business ( Wired ). JDA “Writes the Book” on Supply Chain.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And did we mention that many retailers are scrambling since factories in Vietnam are shut down or operating at very limited capacity due to COVID outbreaks. Many retailers who rely on merchandise produced in Vietnam are re-evaluating what they can get to showrooms in time for fall and winter. s freight system.

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Unleashed

JUNE 22, 2022

More specifically, demand for rubber gloves during the Covid crisis, along with labour shortages and adverse weather in Thailand and Vietnam , led to a surge in demand for rubber, which is consistent with our findings. It’s impossible to express the importance of fulfilment and the overall effect it has on customer experience.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In a typical year, shipping by air and ocean follows a fairly predictable pattern of peak and slow times. Many shippers in this lane have ramped up their shipping early, while others are choosing to pay higher spot market rates in their preferred shipping times or waiting to see what will happen next.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

He had recently returned from his stint as the commercial leader for Syngenta in Vietnam, and was excited to tell me about his beach-side investment in Australia. We outsource about 80% of the primary ingredients of our crop protection business, and pack it in finishing plants and ship to warehouses.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Since China banned the import of plastic waste (except the cleanest plastics) in late 2017, America has been shipping its plastic waste to other countries including: Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Turkey, etc. . Source: The Guardian.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 28, 2021

That includes anticipating every possible contingency to mitigate disruptions in shipping. Unpredictability in shipping. The majority of solar equipment manufacturers are in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia. The majority of solar equipment manufacturers are in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea. It is also airlifting parts from China to its Vietnam operations. It takes time to turn a moving ship around, though, so this will not happen immediately.

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