Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Additional product categories, including detergent, paint, lubricants and chemicals, will likely come under the rule in 2030 or later.

Manufacturing Procurement

Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

China is expected to overtake Taiwan as the world’s biggest manufacturer of chips in 2030 with 22% of the market. The use cases cover the entire lifecycle of manufactured goods, from product design through supply chain optimization to digital twins and predictive maintenance. weight, strength, material).

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IQMS

AUGUST 19, 2022

million unfilled jobs by 2030, with the cost of those missing jobs totaling $1 trillion by 2030. Hidden supply chain costs. Production schedules are more constrained due to the manufacturing worker shortage, which has a cascading effect on supply chain efficiency and costs. could result in 2.1

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2025

This week’s Supply Chain and Logistics News featured headlines about a sharp decline in solar installations in the European Union, attributed to a drop in political support. Yamaha team signed a 3PL agreement with supply chain company DHL. supply chains. Lastly, the U.S. Lastly, the U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

JULY 7, 2025

The contract runs until March 2030 and has a total estimated value of over $10 billion for the contract period. Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. To win, we put together an innovative and differentiated solution that leverages our integrated network and existing assets.”

Cargo

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. Over time, managing robots will become integrated into various departments and job functions” Tunca concludes.

Warehousing

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. One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. Gilmore Says. What do you say? growth for all 2025, 2.8%

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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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BlueYonder

MAY 19, 2025

In addition, thousands of employees face layoffs , and automakers are already weighing some big supply chain shifts in response. There are just 4 million EVs in all of America but Chinese car buyers are purchasing a million EVs every month. Will they stop purchasing cars altogether until financial markets stabilize?

Modeling

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.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

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. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Then they ask what should be done about the problem and ask employees why they have proposed one solution instead of another. This generally requires considering a range of solutions and collecting more evidence.) That’s respect for people.” What do you say? Do it your way and get on with it.”

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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.

Gartner

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.

Cargo

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 29, 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. 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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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. CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. I recommend it.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. What do you say?

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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. Using the right tools to do the right job is important and SCM is heavily dependent on sophisticated ERP systems to get right real data info ASP.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

He adds: “The emissions spike we’re seeing today is the result of years of underinvestment in meaningful, near-term solutions. There is no shortage of reporting tools, green fuel pilots or glossy ESG statements. The tools exist. What do you say? Not technologically. Not mentally.” The technology exists. The urgency exists.

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

That also led Klappich to recently define a new category of software, which Gartner calls a Multiagent Orchestration Platform (MAOP) for managing mobile robots in warehousing and manufacturing. ( Using the right tools to do the right job is important and SCM is heavily dependent on sophisticated ERP systems to get right real data info ASP.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 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

JULY 2, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 The situation remains too volatile to firmly put such plans into place.“

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Sharma says this adjustment reflects a broader reassessment of the industry’s growth trajectory, with the 2030 revenue projection now coming in at $15.6 The Trump tariffs “are reshaping global supply chains and injecting a high degree of uncertainty into capital investment decisions, causing delays. year-over-year out to 2030.

Analysis

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. Using the right tools to do the right job is important and SCM is heavily dependent on sophisticated ERP systems to get right real data info ASP. What do you say?

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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,

Manufacturing Procurement

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.” July 9, 2025 Ohio-based startup TuffAir has sued Amazon over claims related to intellectual property.

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2017

In reality, all this emerging tech, whether it’s turning your world upside down or not, is having a very real impact on how businesses manage their supply chains. He outlined eight emerging technologies that are most likely to drive dramatic changes across the CPG supply chain. Connected home. IoT at retail.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 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. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value).

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