Chain Reaction Podcast 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
- GAP 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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