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LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – April 2025

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Cold Chain Logistics for Food, Pharma & Retail The April edition of LogiSYM magazine highlights the critical role of cold chain logistics in maintaining efficiency, compliance, and resilience across the food, pharmaceutical, and retail sectors. It introduces a collaborative platform aimed at strengthening Halal supply chains through shared knowledge and partnership.

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Going Global? When to Switch from Cross-Border Shipping to Local Fulfillment

Stord

With the global e-commerce market projected to surpass $8 trillion by 2027 1 , brands are presented with a massive opportunity for international growth. This means far more than just new sales channels. Its about gaining access to larger, less saturated markets, often in regions where demand for certain products or categories is growing faster than in the brands home market.

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How Bosch, JD.com, and Ford Are Using 5G to Transform Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

5G networks significantly improve data transmission speed, latency, and device connectivity, revolutionizing supply chain operations. These advancements enable real-time tracking and monitoring, enhance automated systems, and support a larger number of connected devices. The low latency of 5G allows for immediate response to any issues, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.

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Improving Demand Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning

ToolsGroup

Improving demand forecast accuracy is crucial for supply chain success. Businesses must analyze vast amounts of data to predict ever-changing consumer behavior accurately. Traditional demand forecasting methods often fall short, resulting in inefficiencies, excess inventory, and lost revenue. Machine learning is transforming the demand planning process, enhancing demand forecast accuracy, optimizing inventory management, and strengthening supply chain resilience.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Unpacking Cargo Theft: Trends and Solutions with Danielle Spinelli

The Logistics of Logistics

Danielle Spinelli and Joe Lynch discuss unpacking cargo theft: trends and solutions. Danielle serves as Account Executive at Descartes MyCarrierPortal, the leading solution for carrier identity, onboarding, and monitoring in transportation. About Danielle Spinelli Danielle Spinelli is an Account Executive at Descartes MyCarrierPortal. With a decade of experience in the logistics and transportation industry, Danielle brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in carrier sales and vetting.

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DHL Group acquires CRYOPDP from Cryoport to strengthen “DHL Health Logistics”

Logistics Viewpoints

DHL to acquire 100% of CRYOPDP, a leading specialty courier providing logistics services for clinical trials, biopharma, and cell & gene therapies. This acquisition enhances DHL’s capabilities in specialty pharma logistics and supports Group’s 2030 strategy to become a leader in life science and healthcare logistics. DHL and Cryoport form strategic partnership to strengthen their respective supply chain services offerings for the global life sciences and healthcare sector.

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Surviving the Tariff Storm of 2025: Why Post Payment Audits are Now Essential

TransAudit

Why Tariffs Are Stealing the Spotlight in 2025 Were only a few months into 2025, and yet one word has dominated nearly every conversation in global trade and transportation: tariffs. Since Inauguration Day, the landscape has shifted dramaticallywith new duties, revised agreements, and retaliatory tariffs shaking up supply chains across the globe. These rapid changes are creating uncertainty for logistics professionals, procurement teams, and trade compliance experts who now must monitor updates

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Mitigating Tariff Impacts: The Digital Supply Chain Advantage

BlueYonder

The eruption of the trade war and subsequent shifts in tariffs has thrown organizations into disarray, and has them scrambling to understand the effects of tariffs on their businesses and supply chains. Even a tariff pause brings little relief, as substantial tariffs remain in place and will likely continue to ebb and flow for the foreseeable future.

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6 KPIs That Influence Inventory Optimization

Silvon Software

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. Get it right, and youve got happy customers and streamlined costs. Get it wrong, and you risk financial strain and fulfillment headaches. Striking the perfect balance between available stock and cost efficiency is key. Thats where data-driven decision-making comes in! By leveraging analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs), manufacturers can optimize inventory, reduce waste, and boost profitability.

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Revolutionizing Hiring: Remote-Insourcing That Slashes Turnover & Training Costs!

What is Remote-Insourcing? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Not anymore. Remote-Insourcing isn’t outsourcing—it’s a revolutionary staffing model that lets our clients fill key entry-level positions with top-tier, loyal, long-term talent, integrated seamlessly into their businesses—just like local employees but without the turnover or W2 HR hassles. With under 4% unwanted attrition, you train once and keep the same team for years.

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Shipium and Kibo Pair Composable Commerce with Headless Logistics in New Partnership

Logistics Viewpoints

Shipium, the modern shipping platform for enterprise shippers, recently announced a partnership with Kibo Commerce, a composable commerce platform. Kibo enables retailers, distributors and manufacturers to deliver seamless omnichannel experiences while optimizing fulfillment efficiency. With a modular, API-first architecture, Kibo provides businesses with the agility to adapt quickly to market changes, reduce operational complexity, and drive revenue growth.

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Navigating Fads: QAD’s Approach to Managing Shifting Consumer Product Trends

QAD

The Latest Trend in Baseball: the Torpedo Bat Consumer product trends and fads have always shaped consumer behavior. One moment, a product or idea rises rapidly in popularity, and the next, it can fade just as quickly. The sporting goods industry is no exception, where new trends often make waves, creating opportunities and challenges for manufacturers.

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Automotive Production Flow Optimization Software That Drives Uptime, Reduces Defects, and Boosts ROI in Under 90 Days

ThroughPut

Impact Summary: A global automotive parts manufacturer transformed its production flow and operational efficiency using ThroughPut.AIs Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Manufacturing Production Optimization Software suite. The implementation delivered: 500% faster data analysis for real-time decision-making Over $2MM+ in potential savings from just a 1% improvement in uptime Up to 30% reduction in quality defects for the lowest-performing shifts Enhanced equipment utilization by cloning overuse

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How Tariffs Disrupt Supply Chains: A Closer Look at Strategy, Inventory, and Resilience

RFgen

Tariffs were once background noise for most companies. They were a variable to watch but rarely something that rewired entire operations. Thats changed. The impact of tariffs on supply chains is no longer abstract. Its direct, expensive, and increasingly hard to plan around. From the new tariffs impact on supply chains to newer policy shifts between the U.S., China, and the EU, trade barriers are driving more than price changes.

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3 Ways Your Wholesaler ERP System Is Failing You

The supply chain is the world’s most complex logistics challenge, where efficiency and accuracy are critically important to ensure goods are accessible to consumers when needed. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems play a key role for wholesale distribution companies in this process, serving (among other things) as the inventory management software that attempts to ensure that the right products are available in the right quantities at the right time and place.

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Global Trade and Economic Forecasts Now Factor Tariff Uncertainties

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its Supply Chain Matters blog revisits assumptions included in 2025 predictions and how they are changing with ongoing developments. Background In our research arms advisory report, 2025 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains , published in January, our first prediction was: Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers face another extended period of high uncertainty related to global wide and domestic business strategies, disruption risks an

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Unlocking the Value of the Logistics Viewpoints Archive

Logistics Viewpoints

As supply chain professionals continue to navigate disruption, digitization, and increasing complexity, having fast access to relevant, high-quality insights is critical. The Logistics Viewpoints archive has grown into a resource that supports exactly that a curated collection of category-based content that reflects both foundational principles and emerging trends across the logistics landscape.

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The cost of late payments: How cashflow struggles ripple through the economy

Taulia

The cost of late payments: How cashflow struggles ripple through the economy Less than half of suppliers are paid on time. These late payments dont just hurt individual businesses theyre harming the economy. Late payments dont just harm individual suppliers; they impact whole industries, slowing growth, blocking up supply chains and even impacting jobs and pay.

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ThroughPut.AI Empowers Reshoring with AI-Driven Supply Chain Visibility and Inventory Optimization

ThroughPut

New AI capabilities accelerate manufacturing reshoring with faster, more agile inventory planning and supply chain decision-making PALO ALTO, CA, April 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ ThroughPut.AI ,the Industrial AI Supply Chain Analytics and Advanced Decision Making pioneer, as recognized by Gartner, today announced powerful new capabilities to its platform to support global reshoring efforts and localized manufacturing strategies.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025

2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.

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Intake & Orchestration in Procurement – Cutting Through the Jargon

Jaggaer

How Intake and Orchestration AI Are Reshaping Procurement If youve been paying attention to technology developments in procurement, youve probably come across the term Intake & Orchestration. So, whats it all about? And why should you take note? Intake AI refers to the use of artificial intelligence to capture, understand, and classify incoming requests or needs, whether from users, systems, or documents.

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Kinaxis Announces Tariff Response Application

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights an announcement from supply chain orchestration provider Kinaxis regarding the release of the Kinaxis Tariff Response application. The Announcement Last week the supply chain orchestration technology support provider announced Kinaxis Tariff Response, a new offering aimed at helping companies simulate tariff exposure, run strategic scenarios, and make data-informed decisions quickly.

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The Best 5 Tips for Utilizing Salesforce CRM for Logistics

SCMDOJO

An effective business model is aimed at making customers maximally satisfied. Yet, in this sense, no business model can stay effective for a long time without reasonable updates. When the business world is evolving at an incredible speed and market competition is getting constantly harsher, customer demands are also changing fast. Talking about logistics and transportation services, clients do not want to stay behind the scenes anymore, they prefer to monitor and control each step of delivery pr

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Women in Supply Chain: The Progress and Pitfalls on the Road to Equity

Supply Chain Brain

The path toward equity hasn't been an easy one for women in supply chain and logistics, and even today, it's still very much a work in progress.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Why Intellectual Property Law Matters More Than Ever in the Digital Age

IT Supply Chain

By Ian Summers (pictured) Content Writer The post Why Intellectual Property Law Matters More Than Ever in the Digital Age appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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A Q&A with Climatiq: Transforming Supply Chains for a Greener Future

John Galt

Our partner Climatiq, leader in carbon intelligence solutions, shares key insights on the state of supply chain sustainability, the challenges and the opportunities.

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This Week in Supply Chain Tech- April 18, 2025

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology providers. Our previous posting in this series was published on March 28 th. Technology providers highlighted in this edition include: Kodiak Optilogic MISUMI Group and Fictiv Autonomous Driving Startup Kodiak to Go Public Kodiak Robotics , an AI enabled self-driving truck software provide

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The Chocolate Crisis: How Climate Change is Reshaping Easter

All Things Supply Chain

Every spring, children around the world wake up on Easter morning excited to hunt for chocolate eggs and bunnies.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Women in Supply Chain: The Progress and Pitfalls on the Road to Equity

Supply Chain Brain

The path toward equity hasn't been an easy one for women in supply chain and logistics, and even today, it's still very much a work in progress.

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Retail Logistics Tracking: Streamlining the Retail Supply Chain

Loginext

Retail logistics tracking enhances supply chain visibility, improves delivery accuracy, boosts efficiency, and helps retailers make smarter decisions daily. The post Retail Logistics Tracking: Streamlining the Retail Supply Chain appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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Empowering Nurses with Point-of-Use Supply Chain Technology

Tecsys

Empower nurses with RFID technology to streamline inventory management, reduce stress, and enhance patient care by automating supply tracking and improving operational efficiency.