This is your weekly supply chain bulletin from B2BE for the week starting 17th October 2022
Each week, we bring you a rundown of the latest trends in the news from across the supply chain industry. We cover the issues most important to you, bringing you useful links to the full articles. This ranges from news on various supply chain disruptions to strategies to lessen the damage. We also include other relevant supply chain related updates. If you missed it, you can read last week’s edition here. Read on to see what’s making the news this week.
Organisations begin stockpiling to ensure stock for peak trading holidays
Over the past two years, the pandemic caused supply chain disruption, with unpredictable deliveries, labour shortages and lockdowns. With peak holiday season approaching, organisations have taken to the option of stockpiling to ensure they’re not let down by unpredictable supply chains and continued logistic strikes.
Supply chain worries for the chemical sector
The latest business survey from the Chemistry Industry Association (CIA) showed that organisations within the sector are struggling with persistent supply chain issues delaying orders, with inflation eating into margins and consumer prices. Consequently, to help supply chain disruption the industry is working with the government over future plans to ease the burden, with a six month support package due to be published in Jan 23.
Mercedes use Microsoft platform to help ease supply chain worries
To resolve current bottlenecks within the supply chain process, the organisation Mercedes-Benz partnered with Microsoft on production systems to help retrieve data to give transparency across every factory showing inventory management and supply chain oversight to maximise production.
Could supply chain data eases be key to U.S inflation relief?
It is expected that supply chain pressures were partly the cause of rising inflationary pressures in the U.S. Since the New York Fed reports on easing of supply chain pressures back to pre-pandemic levels there is hope that it will lead the way for inflation relief.
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