Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

New Roles and Skills likely to Emerge, Gartner’s Abdil Tunca Says July 30, 2025 Supply Chain Digest Says. Initially, robot management will operate as a distinct role within supply chain. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Gartner says that “Over 90% of supply chain logistics functions have started or completed a digital transformation within the past three years, and high-performing functions set the logistics digital technology strategy 48% of the time.” A ny comments on Gartners thoughts?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

We always start with a check on the US and global economy, as that has such an impact in the end on supply chain practice. What is your reaction of 1H supply chain 2025 in numbers and charts? link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Gilmore Says. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Highlights of the interview are provided below: Q: Why is it critical for supply chain planning leaders to evolve their roles to more proactively shape business decisions in today’s environment? What do you say?

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Freight Waves

JUNE 21, 2025

economy and international trade by transporting documents and packages. ground network, the largest less-than-truckload carrier in the United States and a major supply chain division. In 2014, Fortune Magazine named him among the world’s 50 greatest leaders. FedEx has grown into an $87.7 It also operates an extensive U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Aronow observes that many supply chain organizations are perpetually chasing their commercial partners to engage and improve the demand forecast. Aronow says to start by investing in organizational storytelling skills. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supply chain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. Below are some highlights from the Gartner blog post. This shift was accompanied by a change in tone.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supply chains list. That famous ranking used to be released at a dinner the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May (now called the Supply Chain Symposium), but this year it was again released in a webinar a few weeks after the conference. Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

The on-going conflict creates risks to critical raw materials and the continued flow of finished goods, Garter says, requiring supply chains to conduct cost-benefit analyses of mitigation actions in partnership with finance leaders. Supply Chain Digest Says. Prepare CFOs for continued supply chain cost volatility 3.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

What I failed to do in any of those three columns was mention what in some ways may have been the biggest to news items: the retirements of sorts of Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich and groundbreaking, inaugural Gartner analyst, and famous inventor of the Three V’s of Supply Chain, Art Mesher.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Supply Chain Digest Says. Since early 2025, the US Surface Transportation Board, the federal regulatory agency overseeing railroads, has signaled a more industry-friendly approach to merger reviews. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

Click here to send us your comments January New that supply chain software provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. April On what he calls Liberation Day, President Donald Trump publishes a wide schedule of tariffs on US imports from virtually every other country, creating supply chain chaos. What do you say?

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EFT

JULY 7, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists Inside the airline seat industry crisis delaying jet deliveries Tucked beneath the armrest of a luxury business class seat in a factory in Wales lies a clue to a global aviation bottleneck that has left many airlines waiting impatiently for new jets.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

This week we review the performance of supply chain stocks, and next week we will provide our popular take on the 1H 2025 in numbers and charts On to the stocks, I am ending my numbers with the closing bell on July 3. In early 2021, SCDigest re-launched this weekly supply chain and logistics stock market index.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! month-over-month.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

of GDP The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Any F eedback on our Supply Chain Graphic of the Week? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. Deregulation undertaken by Jimmy Carter meant that the federal government no longer had to approve routes and prices for interstate air transportation. RIP Fred Smith, one of the most consequential figures in the history of supply chain.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 2025

That marked the first time the vacancy rate surpassed 7% since 2014, as businesses rushed extra inventory into their existing warehouses earlier this year and then paused decision-making during the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again tariff rollout. Any F eedback on our Supply Chain Graphic of the Week? See graphic below.)

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! What do you say? locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 8, 2025

This enabled totes not only to negotiate a great price, but see huge opportunities to reduce supply chain costs, especially in distribution, where Isotoner’s ratios were totally out of whack. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! I can see why. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Finally, a manager in the transportation equipment sector stated that “The word that best describes the current market outlook is ‘uncertainty.’ link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

The Trump tariffs “are reshaping global supply chains and injecting a high degree of uncertainty into capital investment decisions, causing delays. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! What is going on? Not surprisingly, tariffs will play a key role Sharma says.

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 5, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments The ramifications of the tariffs on the economy and supply chains remain largelyunknown. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! from 13.3% - up significantly from just 2.3% before Trump took office.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Service-as-Software is ushering in the era of the digital workforce in the supply chain industry in particular, its already begun. My company FourKites recently announced the availability of Tracy and Sam, two new digital workers purpose-built to autonomously manage complex supply chain workflows.

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 4, 2025

4, 2025 The US Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for July was released Friday by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and came in at a level of 48.0, 4, 2025 The US Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for July was released Friday by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and came in at a level of 48.0, Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

And because not every trading partner is EDI-enabled, a relatively large percentage of them actually remain unconnected (for example, as recently as 2014, Home Depot was still faxing orders to some vendors ). Overview of Supply Chain Operating Network. Overview of Supply Chain Operating Network.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Electric Charging Station Installs Soar in Q2 According to a report from Transport Topics this week, 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the US in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom on record, according to Department of Energy data. Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We pick up where we left off yesterday from posting the Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014 by page views from the Cerasis blog by featuring the Top 10 Supply Chain Blog Posts in 2014. What did you find most intriguing in the Supply Chain arena in 2014? Top Supply Chain Blog Posts for 2014.

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