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Jabil's Global Category Intelligence Archive
Global Category Intelligence
Q4 2022
Jabil's Global Category Intelligence Archive
Global Category Intelligence
Q4 2022
Executive Summary
Q4 2022
Welcome to the Q4 edition of Jabil’s Global Category Intelligence Report. Our latest publication offers our perspective on various categories and sub commodities of spend we believe our partners will find insightful and will provide valuable decision-making support.
Economic conditions, at both macro and micro levels, continue to lack certainty or real predictability and most reliable indicators suggest this will not stabilize, in every case, in the near term. Navigating the Indirect Goods and Services markets has been challenging for some time now and cost, lead time and supply pressures are still prevalent in many major categories. I am therefore delighted that we can offer our partnership network truly meaningful intelligence, borne from long standing experience and a close affinity with the category markets we trade in every day, to assist in strategy planning in the current climate.
In our latest report, our domain experts provide deep category market analysis, specifically outline the impact inflationary pressure is having on global supply chains and explore the retaliatory monetary policy decisions taken by central banks aimed at stemming price increases and dampening demand. Unfortunately, it is still necessary that we continue to highlight the disruptions caused by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the spend areas to pay particular attention to as part of any mitigation strategy. Our logistics experts take an in-depth look at the global freight markets across major regions, transportation modes and educe any specific market factors that shows signs of alleviation or deterioration generally.
In our pursuit of continued relevance, excellence and partnership we have added several new elements to our Q4 report. In this edition, we take a deep dive into the macroeconomic factors impacting connected supply-chains, some as mentioned earlier, and, for example, the impact that China’s policies in pursuit of Covid-Zero objective is having on domestic and international markets. We will also share our experiences in the development of a Procurement ‘Guided Buying’ strategy and the benefits this drives for enterprises.
I hope you enjoy the report and, as always, if you would like to discuss the publication in more depth or have any questions, please contact myself or Josh Wilson, Research and Intelligence Manager, directly.
Yours sincerely,
Tony Lyons
Vice President, Global Procurement
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