Preparing effectively for the new year 2023 The year 2022 was once again marked by a wide variety of economic…
Year: 2022
Medium-sized companies concerned 73 percent have corporations as major customers Concern about corporate flight from Germany 36 percent of companies…
Securing the energy supply through LPG and maintaining value creation in Germany If you look hard enough, you can still…
HWWI commodity price index continues to fall HWWI overall index falls by 13.1% (US dollar basis) Natural gas price falls…
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Agreement with suppliers from the USA and China The BMW Group announces it has reached agreements with companies in the…
IMK presents study and recommends increasing the resilience of supply chains In the period from the beginning of 2021 to…
Increased stockholding Companies in German industry have stepped up their stockholding since 2020 in response to global supply bottlenecks. This…
At the beginning of 2023, the new Due Diligence Act, better known as the Supply Chain Act, will come into…
Competent solution approaches in technical purchasing Technical sourcing increases real benchmarking and competition with alternative suppliers, but also the (further)…
Individual. Fast. Sustainable. Shipping goods is expensive and often the invoiced freight is incorrect and higher than agreed. Invoiced freight…
How can gas shortages and extremely high energy prices be dealt with? Gas and electricity are currently causing major problems…
The management consultancy Kloepfel Consulting, which is specialized in supply chains, randomly surveyed 108 German managers of medium-sized companies across…
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HWWI Commodity Price Index Declines in September HHWWI overall index falls by 3.9 % (US dollar basis)Price index for natural…
Adapting to supply chain disruptions Since the Corona crisis, the majority of German companies have taken certain measures to adapt…
Electrification and decarbonization of the transport network Over the next five years, Amazon plans to invest more than one billion…
New high for Germany In September 2022, the inflation rate in Germany rose to +10.0 percent. The month before, it…