Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Southern California Wildfires and Windstorm Client Alert Supply Chain Risk Alert Severe wildfires and windstorms have impacted Southern California since January 7, 2025. Exiger empowers clients to assess the impact of wildfires on their supply chain through cutting-edge visualization tools that map the geolocations of their suppliers.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

🙂 Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. For small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), e-commerce is an opportunity to sell to a larger customer base and to take advantage of various tech tools to compete with larger businesses. Automated Compliance: Streamlined documentation for cross-border trade.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hybrid powered Class 8 heavy duty tractor designer and manufacturer Nikola Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. In the declaration filed in bankruptcy court, company CEO Steve Girsky indicated that Nikola has curtailed manufacturing of new trucks as a means to conserve cash ahead of the bankruptcy.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The French company, a leading packaging manufacturer for customers in the fragrance and cosmetics industries, has a reputation for developing highly innovative packaging concepts. IPack develops its packaging products and molds for plastic parts with SOLIDWORKS® 3D design software.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. Supply Chain Digest Says. Gartner says that, with the exception of high-performing organizations, 40% of logistics leaders cite the struggle to realize value from existing technology investments 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

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 Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Presidential election ramps up to its final week before election day, Supply Chain Matters highlights how strategic supply chain sourcing decisions can sometimes take on domestic or geopolitical connotations. The contract manufacturer reportedly is planning production capacity for 20,000 GB200 NVL 72 servers in 2025.

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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

Company warehouses buzz with metallic arms plucking items from shelves and wheeled droids that motor around the floors ferrying the goods for packaging,” the article this week says, adding that “In other corners, automated systems help sort the items, which other robots assist in packaging for shipment.”

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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

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. The differences continue: In my rough estimate labor productivity in the second facility is about twice that of the first even with less automation. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago. What do you say?

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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 8, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.

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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. The disgraced executive was eventually convicted of wire and securities fraud in 2022 for misleading investors about Nikola’s operations and zero-emissions technology. What do you say?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Supply chains are messy. Blockchain in Supply Chain Can Help. A manufacturer in China doesn’t read the specs on an order. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Blockchain in supply chain changes that.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 13, 2025

In this Supply Chain Matters market education commentary, we make the case that traditional supply chain planning approaches are struggling in todays far more uncertain and ever-changing business environment. Events related to the threat of increased U.S. Thus, simplified definitions are called for.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

based suppliers, advanced manufacturing capabilities and other moves. The announcement further included a termed manufacturing academy supplier to be located in Detroit , Michigan , along with additional spending with the companys existing U.S. related investments over the next four years. based facility. based suppliers.

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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. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. 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. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls. Supply Chain Digest Says. The company had to re-apply the labels in distribution, at enormous costs. This can be a pleasant experience (it is most of the time) or controversial.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Any F eedback on our Supply Chain Graphic of the Week? Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. RIP Fred Smith, one of the most consequential figures in the history of supply chain. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago. at over 5,000 facilities worldwide. --Its

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2025

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported last week that Foxconn Technology Group , a prime manufacturing services contractor for Apple has asked “ hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Click here to send us your comments That according to Rob Mortimer, CEO of Fuelre4m, a Dubai-based firm that uses fuel technology to cut emissions, writing this week on the web site of the Maritime Executive “That’s not a long-term projection. Not technologically. So why isn’t there a stampede for this technology?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

In recent years, Klappich has turned some his attention to research on warehouse automation generally and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) specifically, where he has carved out a similar thought leadership position. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

in May, but falling below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction for 30 out of the last 32 months. Supply Chain Digest Says. A Manufacturing PMI above 42.3, recorded in May, in bad news for future US manufacturing activity. a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Writing on the research firm’s blog post, Ash Sharma, Chief Commercial Officer & VP of Research - Robotics & Warehouse Automation for Interact says that “The mobile robot industry, previously marked by rapid expansion and investment, is now undergoing a period of challenges and readjustment.” year-over-year out to 2030.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

has been in place since April, and some car manufacturers, including Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) have temporarily paused exports to the U.S. Although Stellantis has manufacturing plants in the U.S., it also manufactures vehicles in the U.K., A 25% tariff on cars being imported to the U.S. in response.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 8, 2025

technology shared with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd., Delivery activity has only recently stepped up at Boeing’s Seattle facilities, including jets for Air China, Hainan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, according to Aviation.flights, a website that tracks plane movements at the manufacturer. and Asia’s biggest economy.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. TuffAir’s strategy was novel, integrating small-aircraft logistics, FAA exemptions, Ohio-based test zones and proprietary software and flight routing technology.” Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As I’ve said before, the ability to exchange timely, accurate, and complete data, documents, and other information with external business partners — and do so in a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective way — is one of the foundations to enabling supply chain visibility, control, and innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The design of the supply chain is fundamental to making this happen. In our interview of the Supply Chains to Admire Winners, we found a unique approach at Carter’s. Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. With market maturity for zero-emissions vehicles losing momentum in North America, we’ve reshaped our capital allocation strategy to refocus on further developing our internal combustion technology,” O’Leary said during a speech at the event. What do you say?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Where and how manufacturers make products for Americans will change in 2017. Manufacturers must adapt to changing demands, or they will become nothing more than a statistic in history books. The "First Five" Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017. The "First Five" Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017.

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