SC News Round Up 20th August 2022
All things impacting global supply chains this week.
- UK Inflation hits 10.1% year on year
- Wayfair Online Furniture Retailer cuts 870 jobs
- Tessla cust delivery times to 4 weeks
- Airbus cuts delivery forecasts
- Boeing also cuts its forecasts for output
- Labor strikes adding to supply chain disruptions
- Wage offers frome employers fall well below inflation
- Felixstowe and Liverpool two major UK Ports have strike action
- UK Rail industry strikes continue (40,000 employees)
- Amazon warehouse strikes
- Energy costs will add to inflationary pressure
- Tessla switches EV batteries to cylindrical from prismatic
- Eve Chinese EV battery manufacturer is building new plant in Debrecan, Hungary
- Autonomous vehicles
- VW manufacturing plant in Mexico impacted by labor strikes
- Plastic bottles switch to 100% recyclable
- Pepsico building its largest manufacturing facility in Denver
- Port in a desert to ease pressure on Los Angeles and Longbeach
- President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act
- GAPÂ hires out its logistics and supply chain systems – This is a growing trend for big retail.
- PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ new science to break them down – 97% of Americans have PFAS in their bodies
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About Tony Hines and the Chain Reaction Podcast – All About Supply Chain Advantage
I have been researching and writing about supply chains for over 25 years. I wrote my first book on supply chain strategies in the early 2000s. The latest edition is published in 2024 available from Routledge, Amazon and all good book stores. Each week we have special episodes on particular topics relating to supply chains. We have a weekly news round up every Saturday at 12 noon…
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