2009 July |

onPanjiva in the Press

Josh Green | July 28, 2009

Thought I’d pass along coverage of the onPanjiva program.  As a reminder, the deadline for nominations is August 31st.   If you know of information providers whose data would be valuable to global trade decision-makers — or if you want to nominate your own organization to publish data onPanjiva — take 30 seconds and nominate now.

Panjiva / onPanjiva in Business Insider / Silicon Alley Insider       onPanjiva / Panjiva in Fortune’s CNN Money

Silicon Alley Insider: “Now, Panjiva is trying to make its service more useful to a broader audience by allowing other companies to build their data — for paying customers, via an ‘app store’-like revenue sharing deal — into Panjiva’s search engine of global suppliers.  Through August 31, the company is accepting nominations for its new onPanjiva program.”

VentureBeat: Using government data as a platform for global trade

VentureBeat: “The new service, called onPanjiva, is letting any other data provider, such as governments, credit bureaus and non-profit organizations, apply to integrate its data with Panjiva’s service…  For businesses looking to be included, Panjiva says it hopes to use its service to drive revenue to those partners.”

onPanjiva / Panjiva in SpendMatters

SpendMatters: “It’s not too often that you see true creativity on a continuous basis in the procurement space… [But Panjiva] has risen to the forefront of the market from a mindshare and ideas perspective in just a matter of months…  I’m pulling for them, because if they can make [onPanjiva] work, it will have a tremendous positive impact on procurement organizations when it comes to acquiring supplier content to better manage supplier information and supplier relationships.”

Panjiva / onPanjiva in About.com

About.com: “The first company to nominate an information provider that ultimately publishes its information onPanjiva will receive one-year’s worth of free access to information from this provider. Information providers can also nominate themselves for inclusion onPanjiva.”

Panjiva / onPanjiva in Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Supply & Demand Chain Executive: “‘Just as the App Store connects iPhone users with applications they want, onPanjiva connects global businesses with relevant information they need to engage in global trade and mitigate supply chain risk,’ said James Psota, Panjiva co-founder and chief technology officer.”

The onPanjiva Program

Josh Green | July 20, 2009

Today, we are very excited to announce the launch of the onPanjiva program. Through this program, information providers can apply to publish their information on the Panjiva platform. If there’s information that you’d like to see onPanjiva, take 30 seconds and nominate an information provider now.  More about the program can be found at http://on.panjiva.com.

onPanjiva

The back-story…  Over the last few years, as we published profiles of the hundreds of thousands of companies engaged in global trade, we learned two things:

  1. Our clients, global trade decision-makers, always want more information — and more kinds of information.
  2. There are so many sources of information out there!

Over the last several months, the entire Panjiva team has made a concerted effort to connect our clients with more information, and more kinds of information. We announced deals with financial information provider Sinosure, social responsibility standard-setters SAI and WRAP, and illicit trade red flagger deKieffer & Horgan.

In addition to forging relationships with these information providers, we have invested in technology — the technology to take all these data sources and integrate them seamlessly. You can see the results of these efforts in the newly upgraded Panjiva Search.

But, really, we’ve only scratched the surface. onPanjiva represents the next step in our efforts to connect global trade decision-makers with the information they need. With your help, we will be identifying information providers whose data should be onPanjiva. We will move quickly to give our clients access to this valuable data — and, in so doing, give information providers the benefit of a broader audience for their data.

Lately we’ve been calling onPanjiva, “an App Store for Global Trade.” Just as the App Store connects iPhone users with applications they want, the onPanjiva program connects global trade decision-makers with the information they need.

The analogy isn’t perfect. In the first integration cycle (applications due by August 31st), we will be starting small, with a focus on quality. Information providers interested in being onPanjiva will fill out applications and provide data samples. Panjiva’s business development team, in consultation with our clients, will then choose a small number of data sources to integrate into Panjiva Search during the fourth quarter of 2009. In future cycles, we will expand the number of data sources eligible for integration.

Of course, the onPanjiva program only works with the participation of those who believe, as we do, that connecting decision-makers with information is the key to transforming global trade. If you know of an organization with valuable information, we hope that you will take 30 seconds to nominate this information provider to be onPanjiva. And if you are an information provider, we encourage you to nominate yourself.

Note: if you are the first to nominate an information provider to be onPanjiva — and that information provider ultimately publishes information onPanjiva — you will receive a year of free access to this information!

Want to learn more about the onPanjiva program? Check out http://on.panjiva.com.

40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Josh Green |

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, we took a look at what NASA imports.  Turns out the space agency has received about thirty waterborne shipments from overseas in the last two years.

Not surprisingly, phrases that appear most frequently in the descriptions of shipments to NASA include “electronic equipment”; “scientific equipment”; and “antenna.”

Does the small number of shipments from overseas suggest that NASA buys American?  It would seem so.  But it’s a safe bet that NASA‘s American contractors have global supply chains.  After all, the globalization of high tech manufacturing is one of the many things that has changed in the last four decades.

June Trade Data: Treading Water

Josh Green | July 13, 2009

The word from Panjiva’s research team: June trade data looked a lot like May trade data.  Specifically, between May and June, there was a 1% decline in the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S. market.

Panjiva Analysis: June Trade Data

Similarly, the Panjiva Watch List numbers were unchanged:

  • The percentage of significant manufacturers on the Panjiva Watch List remains at 30%.
  • The percentage of significant buyers having done business with a Panjiva Watch List supplier in the preceding three months remains at 40%.

What to make of these numbers?  The slight decline from May to June is slightly less than last year’s May-to-June decline (2%).  Thus, it seems that global trade now appears to be tracking its typical seasonal path, albeit at a lower absolute level of activity.  Feels a bit like the global economy is treading water.

Methodological notes for the data junkies:

  • Manufacturers that have suffered a 50% or greater decline in volume shipped to American customers in the most recent three month period, versus the same period a year ago, are on the Panjiva Watch List.
  • “Significant manufacturers” are companies that have sent 10 or more shipments to American customers within the last year.  As of the end of June, there were 86,616 significant manufacturers.
  • “Significant buyers” are companies that have received 10 or more shipments from overseas manufacturers within the last year.  As of the end of June, there were 72,850 significant buyers.

Lear: A Post Mortem

Josh Green | July 7, 2009

Earlier today, Lear Corp., a major supplier to the auto industry, filed for bankruptcy protection.  Lear has a global supply chain, so the Panjiva research team took a look at its shipment history to see if there were tell-tale signs of the company’s demise.  See below.  Major drop-off in January, and it moved onto the Panjiva Watch List in February.

Panjiva Analysis of Lear: A Buyer in Decline

See our previous analyses of other bankruptcies in the auto industry.