Announced Truce in U.S. and China Trade Agreement is Ambiguous
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.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Oct 12, 2019 | Global trade trends, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Strategy | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Aug 13, 2019 | China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, Global trade trends, High Tech and Consumer Electronics Supply Chain, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Risk Management, Transportation and Logistics | 2 |
The Supply Chain Matters blog provides perspectives on today’s breaking news that the Trump Administration has elected to both delay tariffs on a yet to be disclosed, select number of products, as well as eliminate duties on certain others, that were all scheduled to take effect at the beginning of September.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Aug 5, 2019 | China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, Global trade trends, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Disruption | 0 |
The Supply Chain Matters blog comments on ever clearer evidence that for U.S. based manufacturers and retailers, changes in global supply chain sourcing strategies are already underway, and that structural changes are already apparent for global supply and product demand market segments.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Jul 2, 2019 | China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, High Tech and Consumer Electronics Supply Chain, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Disruption, Supply Chain Risk Management, Supply Chain Strategy, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
At the G-20 Economic Summit held late last week, the anticipated summit meeting among U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping resulted in essentially a temporary cease fire in additional tariff actions.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Jun 5, 2019 | Global Trade Issues, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain Disruption, Supply Chain Risk Management, Supply Chain Strategy, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
With the bulk of May 2019 global-wide production and Supply Chain activity indices now being reported, May 2019 represented crossing the threshold to an overall level of contraction.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | May 22, 2019 | China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, High Tech and Consumer Electronics Supply Chain, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Disruption, Supply Chain Strategy, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our readers with yet another supply chain management focused update on the now heightened implications of ongoing trade tensions among two of the globe’s three largest economies. We pose the question and the response as to whether tensions are now at the tipping point.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | May 10, 2019 | Automotive Supply Chain, Global Trade Issues, High Tech and Consumer Electronics Supply Chain, Industrial and diversified industry supply chain, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Product Lifecycle Management, Retail Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruption, Supply Chain Strategy, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
Ongoing trade talks between China and the United States broke-off this afternoon without a basis of agreement. With additional tariffs now imposed by the Trump Administration, businesses and their respective supply and demand networks must now be prepared for additional fallout.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | May 8, 2019 | Automotive Supply Chain, China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, High Tech and Consumer Electronics Supply Chain, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Strategy | 0 |
Global equity markets have once again turned volatile on the sudden and unexpected Twitter based announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to significantly increase import tariffs on goods imported from China. Multi-industry supply networks are at risk, depending on the outcome, and smaller businesses are especially at-risk without a contingency plan.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Apr 1, 2019 | China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Supply Chain Risk Management, Supply Chain Strategy, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
The Supply Chain Matters blog outlines an April Fools parody commentary related to prior April 1st 2019 milestones in global trade related to Brexit, and to the ongoing trade tensions among the United States and China.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Mar 12, 2019 | Consumer Goods Focused Supply Chain, Food, Grocery and Natural Foods Retail supply chain, Global Trade Issues, Procurement and Sourcing, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
A new report sponsored by the Farm Foundation in the United States and conducted by economists at Purdue University provides the extent of how much U.S. farmers could be economically impacted with current U.S. trade policies. Reports of the study’s findings are rippling across U.S. Midwest media and agricultural news sources.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Mar 6, 2019 | China Supply Chain Strategy, Global Trade Issues, Global trade trends, Manufacturing Strategies, Procurement and Sourcing, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Strategy, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
With the bulk of global manufacturing PMI indices now reported for February 2019, one is becoming very apparent is that China’s economic slowdown is having a discernable impact on other regions, perhaps far more accelerated that originally anticipated.
Read Moreby Bob Ferrari | Dec 4, 2018 | Global trade trends, Procurement and Sourcing, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain Risk Management | 0 |
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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