The Supply Chain Matters blog shares highlights and insights from a recent published Global Supply Chain Trends survey sponsored by Jabil along with takeaways from an interview conducted with Frank McKay, CPO at Jabil.
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The Supply Chain Matters cautions global based supply chain management teams that despite building euphoria pf a possible Phase One U.S. and Chain trade agreement, global trade tensions are not subsiding, rather the signposts point to a new period of regionalization focused trade strategies.
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The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group alerts clients and subscribed and general Supply Chain Matters blog readers, that our Q3-2019 Quarterly Newsletter published on Thursday of this week.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a published report indicating a period of synchronized stagnation and identifies areas of concentration that global supply chain management teams should prioritize and focus in the coming year.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a commentary on the announced truce in the U.S. and China trade agreement which will provide little comfort to industry supply chains.
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The Supply Chain Matters highlights a Wall Street Journal report indicating that in the current backdrop of escalating trade conflicts and tariff impacts, trade and tariff experts are suddenly in hot market demand.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog analyzes the latest quantitative and qualitative data related to ongoing global manufacturing and supply chain activity levels along with the implication for the year 2020 business assumption and resource planning.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog reinforces indicators that escalating global trade and tariff conflicts are impacting multi-industry supply networks, and that political influences and saving-face outweigh economic and business implications. In preparing for 2020, it may be wise to listen to insiders in the know.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides and editorial commentary reflecting on a report that small and medium businesses are especially impacted by ongoing escalation of global trade conflicts. Once more, high levels of existing uncertainty are not going away any time soon.
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FedEx reported fiscal first quarter financial performance this week with the implications resounding across online and E-commerce business circles. The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a perspective that this is the added narrative of what may likely result in 2020 sales and operations planning and budgeting decision-making.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog informs global-wide readers of a brief pause in blogging activities because of annual vacation.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an argument that Q4-2019 is shaping up to be not the new normal for global wide supply chain management teams, and rather a point where resiliency and agility can no longer be sustained by many.
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