Teamsters Labor Union Ratifies UPS Labor Agreement
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union announced yesterday that 86.3 percent of UPS union workers have now voted to ratify the newly negotiated five-year labor agreement.
by Bob Ferrari 
Retailer Quarterly Performance Points to Stressed Consumers and Changed Buying Trends
Our review of select major retailer’s Q2 financial performance point to added data reflecting economically stressed consumers. They further point to changed online buying trends. Retailers who proactively anticipated such trends and resized their inventory stocks seemed to have fared better.
by Bob Ferrari 
Upcoming Special MIT CTL Crossroads Event
Supply Chain Matters highlights the upcoming MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Crossroads 2023 event, along with the opportunity to attend in person at a discounted rate.
by Bob Ferrari 
Tesla’s Audacious Growth Plans Unveiled Including New Production Plant
Supply Chain Matters highlights global EV automaker Tesla’s investor event held this week including product development, supply chain and production related connotations for a newly unveiled master plan.
by Bob Ferrari 
Ford’s Announced Plans to Operate a Battery Plant in Michigan
Supply Chain Matters highlights the global wide automotive industry’s ongoing supply network and production transformation towards developing and producing electric powered vehicles, by highlighting a recent announcement from Ford Motor Company.
by Bob Ferrari 
Realties of Declining Global Trade and Transport Rates More Evident
Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023.
by Bob Ferrari 
Commercial Aircraft Industry Players Make Plans for 2023
Supply Chain Matters provides a follow-up commercial aircraft supply chain commentary as industry players Airbus, Boeing and GE firm up production plans for 2023.
by Bob Ferrari 
SAP’s Full Year and Q4 Financial Performance and Corporate Restructuring
Supply Chain Matters highlights SAP SE’s report of 2022 and Q4 financial performance along with an announcement of planned corporate restructuring in 2023 involving headcount reductions.
by Bob Ferrari 
IMF Points to a Gloomier 2023 Economic Outlook
Supply Chain Matters highlights an update from the IMF indicating that the global economic outlook for 2023 is getting gloomier, especially for Europe.
by Bob Ferrari
Tesla’s Q3-2022 Vehicle Delivery Performance Exposes Business Model Challenges
Supply Chain Matters ponders on EV automaker’s Tesla’s recent quarterly vehicle delivery performance and how a business model developed to challenge existing industry norms was apparently not immune to ongoing global supply chain events.
by Bob Ferrari
Spoiler Alert- Upcoming Supply Chain Matters Podcast
Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari alerts readers to an upcoming podcast episode on the timely topic of instilling supply network resilience featuring a senior executive of one of the globe’s premier contract manufacturers.
by Bob Ferrari 
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