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After the election, one of the first executive orders from President Joe Biden was dedicated to analyzing U.S. supply chains to see how his administration could help boost domestic production, especially for electronic components and semiconductors which overwhelmingly are produced in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, China. Earlier this year, the U.S. government took…
Buffer stock appears to be the way of the future for global supply chains. Recently at the Global Smart Vehicle Executive Summit of Seicon Taiwan 2022, Director of Automotive and MCU Business Development at TSMC, Cheng-Ming Lin, made a comment that made the automotive industry take notice: as hard as the auto industry has had…
The benefits of buffer stock are well known across the business landscape and have long been seen as a strategy to secure supply chains. In 2022, however, the use of buffer stock to shore up critical inventory such as electronic components, semiconductors, have gone from being a supply chain luxury to being an absolute necessity.…
As the meeting of the Federal Reserve on March 15-16 looms, companies across the economic landscape are eagerly awaiting the specifics regarding measures it will take to curb the historic inflation rates currently being seen in the U.S. In preparation for these actions, many financial entities are making predictions as to what the Fed’s measures…
Inventory Ownership Solutions are becoming the new normal. According to data from research firm Coalition, the world’s top banks have had a productive year in 2020 in one interesting area: supply chains. As organizations across all industries struggle with inventory, they have turned to finding alternative ways to pay suppliers in a time when working…
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…