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15 mar 2024 · build on real-time supply chain measures (i.e., road traffic movement, grain movements by rail and tracking of vessels through ports) and develop new supply chain price and volume indexes, as well as better data on domestic flows.
9 mar 2023 · Canadian businesses have been experiencing supply chain challenges since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and exacerbated by the 2022 conflict in Ukraine. While these challenges have been significant, they have been abating throughout 2022.
The National Supply Chain Office, led by Robert Dick, works with industry, governments and partners to make Canada’s supply chains more efficient, fluid, resilient and reliable. We are located across Canada, with staff concentrated in Ottawa and Vancouver, and other hubs throughout the country.
15 mar 2024 · Statistics Canada and its federal partners are devoting efforts to improve supply chain measurement. These range from improvements to the measurement of both domestic trade flows and the Canada-US supply chain and its integration with major trading partners.
Supply chain management provides supervision and direction for the various parts of the distribution system including production scheduling and inventory control, transportation, warehousing, wholesaling, retailing and brokerage.
Key points. Canada specializes in the early (upstream) production stages of the supply chain. In general, Canada’s exports will be earlier in the value chain and closer to raw materials, while Canada’s imports will come from later in the value chain and be closer to final goods.
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished products and delivered to their end customers.
