The Supply Chain Matters blog continues its series of unveiling 2019 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains, highlighting a prediction calling for unprecedented levels of global supply network management challenges in the coming year.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog continues its series of unveiling 2019 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains. In this Part One posting, we explore our first prediction as to what to anticipate from an overall economic and activity level perspective.
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The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group provides a series of supply chain management predictions for the coming year. The Supply Chain Matters blog unveils overall summary and key themes of 2019 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains.
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Indices for global-wide manufacturing and supply chain activity for November 2018 point to both subdued activity levels and shifting of sourcing locations.
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Industry and global supply chains received some hopeful information this weekend regarding ongoing trade and tariff tensions and uncertainties, but any sigh of relief must remain cautionary.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog features Part Two of a series of commentaries that look back and review 2018 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains that were published by our research arm at the beginning of this year.
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This Supply Chain Matters blog commentary is penned three days before the mid-term elections in the United States, an election that likely has voters contemplating many issues including a vote on the impacts of tariffs on individual businesses and industries.
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B2B and Supply Chain Business Network provider E2open shared yet another acquisition announcement today, that being the acquisition of INTTRA, a prominent B2B ocean shipping network, software and information provider.
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Additional data and reports related to ongoing implications of global trade and tariff tensions will likely lead to added business planning challenges among global supply chain teams for the coming year, and perhaps beyond.
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Global manufacturing and supply network activities continued toward a declining trend by the end of Q3 showing continuing signs of a global trade induced slowdown.
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North America supply chain networks have been granted one huge sign of relief in the announcement of a last-minute trilateral trade deal involving Canada, the United States and Mexico. Attention is now turned to determining the implications and needed changes.
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In these times, dynamic and unplanned changes in either product demand or supply dimensions can impact just about any industry supply network. One evolving example involves agriculture and food supply chains, specifically the U.S. pork industry. The U.S. based pork industry is currently experiencing a lot of dramatic disruptive change on both product demand and supply dimensions.
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