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Supply Chain Dive: Hasbro Says Price Increases Helped Offset High Ocean Freight Costs
August 3, 2022
“While lead times have gone down, they remain “two times higher than historical levels,” Thomas said. Overcrowding at cargo ports and shipping container and truck transportation constraints have led to higher costs for ocean, air and over the road freight, according to the company’s most recent quarterly report.”
McKinsey: Tackling Inflation and Margin Pressure in the Sporting Goods Industry
July 12, 2022
“The ability to accurately calculate margins on a product-by-product is key to successfully navigating inflationary pressures and raw material shortages. Without it companies are effectively flying blind and making product portfolio decisions with little insight into how those decisions impact overall profitability. How accurately is your organization calculating individual product level margins?”
CFO Dive: 3 Ways CFOs Can Help Tackle Supply Chain Disruptions
June 29, 2022
“CFOs can use scenario planning to help identify, evaluate and compare the alternatives from a comprehensive financial, operational and tax perspective when facing complex decisions.”
CFO Journal: Energy and Commodities Outlook: Disruptions from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
June 7, 2022
“Despite these uncertainties, CFOs and other C-suite executives, who strive to stay ahead of price changes and supply shocks in global energy and commodities markets, can find insights and analyses for their planning and budgeting needs. Four sets of indicators to watch below can help executives identify vulnerabilities and find alternatives, possibly giving organizations an added layer of flexibility against sudden market shifts.”
Industry Week: Lost in a Merger, this Supply Chain Strategy Deserves a Comeback
May 31, 2022
“Bottom line, it is in an OEM’s best financial interests to provide its strategic suppliers with the same level of improvement support they would receive if they were internal factory departments. Under this approach, strategic suppliers would no longer just be given tactical performance goals and expected of their own accord to achieve them. Instead, OEMs would collaborate with and assist them—as needed—in their strategic continuous improvement efforts.”
Industry Week: The Next Supply Chain Disruption?
May 24, 2022
“What does this look like in the real world? Curtiss, a maker of high-end electric motorcycles, has worked with Fast Radius to prototype parts for its flagship bike, using both CNC and additive technologies, and now it’s using the digital manufacturing firm to ramp up production. According to a case study published by Fast Radius, the arrangement allows Curtiss to source parts as demand dictates, avoiding the need to buy and warehouse an excessive parts inventory.”
Harvard Business Review: How Companies Can Prepare for a Long Run of High Inflation
May 2, 2022
“First and foremost, understand your entire value chain and its exposure to supply chain shocks. In other words, go beyond learning about just your immediate supplier — figure out the supplier behind your supplier, and so on. Even a minor subcomponent crisscrosses the world at various manufacturing stages. Assess the risk of disruption at each stage, develop alternative sources of supply, and keep sufficient inventory. Those days of keeping lean, just-in-time inventories are gone.”
Supply Chain Dive: ‘One thing after another’: More Disruption Looms Over Semiconductor Market
April 19, 2022
“The cascading supply threats come amid record demand from semiconductor customers, as they increasingly incorporate chips into phones, automobiles and appliances. And semiconductor stock levels have dropped 43% in the past two years to reach the lowest point in over a decade, according to an Avnet report.”
