Partstat Partner News November 2021

By Logan Wamsley

GE Announces Split into Three Public Companies In a recent statement, GE has officially announced that it will be broken up into three separate, publically-traded entities. The three separate businesses will focus on aviation, healthcare, and energy. According to GE, the healthcare entity will be spun off to shareholders hopefully by early 2023, with the…

Shadow Inflation and the Effect on Inventory Carrying Costs

By Logan Wamsley

Most people are familiar with the concept of inflation, a monetary phenomenon that occurs when individual currently loses its value. As a result, basic goods and services increase their prices to maintain profitability, while personal income such as wages often stay stagnant as individuals see their dollars stretching less and less. Taken to its extreme,…

New Data Reveals Depths of Supply Chain Crisis

By Logan Wamsley

The modern supply chain is in a crisis. Although supply chain disruptions occur in some form annually, and major disruptions occur in cycles at least every few years, 2021 is proving to be a different beast. Inflation, raw materials shortages, port congestion, political tensions within nations that constitute critical pain points for critical electronic component…

China’s Alleged Hypersonic Missile Test Is Bad News for Global Supply Chain

By Logan Wamsley

In what is being called by some analysts as a “Sputnik” moment for military technology, China shocked the world by allegedly testing a state-of-the-art, nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August. According to recent reports, the missile completed a low-orbit the Earth before striking only two-dozen miles away from its intended target. The apparent rapid advancement of…