Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Los Angeles-based tech logistics company Warp announced Friday it has secured a $10 million Series A round to scale its AI-powered freight network via robotics and automation.

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

While some warehouses overflow, others sit nearly empty, creating a frustrating paradox of excess and scarcity. Instead of having excess stock sitting idle in one warehouse while another location faces stockouts, inventory balancing aims to optimize inventory allocation based on actual demand.

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Locus

JULY 28, 2025

Logistics leaders are investing in dynamic systems that adapt to live constraints, especially as customer expectations and delivery speed demands grow. In logistics, last-mile transportation functions much the same way, it determines whether the delivery promise is kept or broken. Related reading: What is Last-Mile Delivery?

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 6, 2025

Robotics is also playing a pivotal role in inventory management, logistics, and warehousing. Future of Robotics in Industrial Automation By Richard Pearson (pictured) Content Writer 21 Views Industrial automation is changing fast, and robotics is at the center of this revolution.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack (2021) The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, one of the largest fuel pipelines in the United States, disrupted fuel supply of almost 50% to the east coast of the US, causing panic buying and fuel shortages. Tianjin, home to 12 million people is a critical Chinese logistics and manufacturing hub.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 27, 2025

Between 2021 and 2023, attacks jumped by 431% , and reports show this number will likely keep rising throughout 2025. Why Are Supply Chain Cyberattacks on the Rise? This creates multiple entry points for cyber criminals to exploit with innovative attack methods.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

In 2021, a flaw in Apache Log4j triggered global panic. One attack on a global logistics company in 2022 shut down operations for three days. How Do IT Supply Chain Attacks Actually Happen? Open-Source Components A lot of IT tools are built on open-source code. That’s not a bad thing. But it’s also a risk. They want disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2025

ports have flagged increased inquiries about customs reclassification and bonded warehousing strategies. Oil Prices Sink Below $60 A Mixed Signal for Logistics Crude oil dropped to its lowest level since 2021, closing below $60 per barrel, as fears of a global slowdown weighed on demand forecasts.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

In a recent blog post, Tunca had this to say: “CSCOs must develop an organizational structure to support the management of growing fleets of robots by creating a warehouse automation strategy.” New Roles and Skills likely to Emerge, Gartner’s Abdil Tunca Says July 30, 2025 Supply Chain Digest Says.

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EFT

JULY 15, 2025

German exporters lose market share as competitiveness slips, Bundesbank says German exporters have lost significant ground in global markets since 2021 due mainly to a broad-based deterioration in the country's competitiveness, the Bundesbank said on Monday. Blackstone ups offer to $666 million in battle for UK's Warehouse REIT U.S.

Negotiating Skills

Stord

MAY 29, 2025

China trade tensions force shippers, carriers, brokers, and brands to reassess logistics strategies. billion in March 2025, the lowest monthly total since 2021, representing a 1.9% Brands are leveraging Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) and bonded warehouses to delay or minimize duties on imported goods. Imports from China fell to $29.4

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. 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? Supply Chain Digest Says. Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Freight Waves

JULY 24, 2025

Department of Transportation, testified at his nomination hearing that Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW), DOT’s freight data exchange portal, will him and his staff do that. ports clogged with container ships as importers struggled to keep up with a surge in freight demand in the second half of 2021.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

Sourcing raw materials from Asia, coordinating freight with European logistics providers, or navigating distribution networks in the Americas cross-border operations rely on effective communication to make them happen. Logistics coordinators will need to reroute deliveries. This is where audio translation technology is a game-changer.

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EFT

MAY 21, 2025

Many companies reduced their orders and a portion of them stopped ordering altogether, relying on existing inventories, which had been built up beforehand, or holding inventory in bonded warehouses.

China

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We have another one that is commercially available as well called Stretch, which is a logistics and warehouse robot used for moving boxes, say, up to 50 pounds. We are the world’s leading maker of autonomous mobile robots. You’ve probably heard of Spot, our yellow quadruped dog robot. And so, our challenge.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

And did you know Amazon has already deployed more than one million warehouse robots of multiple types? The goal, he said, is to turn future warehouse robots into assistants that can respond to verbal commands, such as to unload a trailer. The robotic warehouse era is surely here. Any reaction to the this article ?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

NMFTA says the new “Cybersecurity Cargo Crime Reduction Framework” is an actionable guide for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers and brokers that It outlines key steps parties can take to reduce cargo theft risk. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. Good advice from Drewry.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

In recent years, Klappich has turned some his attention to research on warehouse automation generally and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) specificaly, where he has carved out a similar thought leadership position. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. Thanks for uploading this article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Freight Waves

JULY 15, 2025

Donna Lemm, chief strategy officer of Collierville, Tennessee-based IMC Logistics, an intermodal logistics company specializing in moving ocean containers to and from major seaports and rail hubs, told lawmakers at the hearing that cargo theft at her company has exploded from five incidents in 2021 to 876 in 2024. Credit: U.S.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

June CSCMP and partner Kearney release the 2025 State of Logistics Report, with the headline news: that what the report several years back started calling US Business Logistics Costs (USBLC) rose on an absolute basis in 2024 to $2.58 That left logistics costs as a percent of US GDP down a bit in 2024 to 8.7%.

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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. Again this year, Penske Logistics funded the report development. of the total cost logistics number (versus 7.2%

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

Meanwhile, our supply chain and logistics stock index, which is made up of more than 20 stocks across freight carriers, logistics service providers, and supply chain hardware and software vendors, lagged the S&P, with a gain of just 10.3% 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

After rising 13% in 2021 and 0.6% Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. in 2023 and 4.1% It's HORRIBLE.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. It's HORRIBLE.

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 12, 2025

It appears Amazon is spending heavy on logistics facilities, AI or both. Those costs include the cost of workers need to run its fulfillment centers, sortation centers and other logistics facilities. Some inbound logistics costs are also included, but not customer shipping costs. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce.

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