Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

CONA Services Provides a Common Platform for Supply Chain Collaboration CONA Services LLC is an IT services company owned and governed by the 11 largest Coca-Cola bottlers in North America. Its main applications include SAP for backend transactions, Blue Yonder for supply chain management , and Salesforce for sales.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

DAT operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. During his tenure in the industry, he built innovative pricing and forecasting models, leveraging internal and external data sources to improve internal decision-making and increase profitability. Ken is the Chief of Analytics at DAT Freight & Analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2025

As vehicle exports from Mexico to North America surged, Volkswagen Mexico found itself confronting a significant supply chain crisis. Its long-established logistics model, built around rail and RoRo (Roll-on/Roll-off) shipping, could no longer keep pace. and Canadian dealerships. Canada, and domestic markets.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 29, 2025

ToolsGroup customer Suministros & Alimentos , a leading Central American food distribution and logistics provider, with regional coverage across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, will showcase how it uses technology and AI to predict demand and track shipments in real time to optimize the supply chain, ensure product quality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

TSX: KXS) an end-to-end supply chain orchestration, today announced a new partnership that will deliver improved alignment of supply chain plans with business objectives and strategies for midmarket discrete manufacturing companies. NEW YORK & OTTAWA, ON March 24, 2025 Infor, the industry cloud complete company, and Kinaxis Inc.

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RFgen

JULY 18, 2025

Reliance on distant Asian supply chains is giving way to production closer to home, in Mexico and the U.S. Midwest, driven by geopolitical friction, rising overseas costs and the need for supply-chain resilience. HVAC-component makers are also expanding to meet North American demand. Global manufacturing is realigning.

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Logility

APRIL 28, 2025

” What makes supply chains an ideal proving ground for this evolution? The Rise of the Self-Healing Supply Chain Today’s supply chains are under more pressure, navigating considerable hurdles such as macroeconomic instability, shifting demand patterns, climate events, and geopolitical friction.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 25, 2025

The Supply Chain Renaissance Has Begun! Policies might be flexed to drive more short-term volume, making the rest of the company strain in meeting the increased demand. These knee-jerk reactions then ripple throughout the supply base causing consternation. Today it’s a different story. It was tough and manual, but it worked.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

For supply chains, AI offers new paradigms and approaches, delivering streamlined processes and results that are unprecedented. AI is about more than fixing problems — its fundamentally changing how supply chains operate. According to Forbes Market Insights , the global supply chain management market is projected to grow from $23.58

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

Transforming how goods are moved in America Auroras flagship product, the Aurora Driver , is an SAE L4 self-driving system that is first being deployed in long-haul trucking. 1 for technology and innovation, and that continues as we welcome America’s first self-driving trucks. Trucking is a trillion dollar industry in the U.S.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 27, 2025

However, advances in technology paired with significant supply chain partnerships and increasing affordability for robotics may be reasons to reevaluate. The MHI report predicts robotics and automation will jump from 41% of supply chain leaders using it today to 83% adopting it over the next five years.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 15, 2025

In today’s competitive market, every drop of efficiency in extraction and logistics fuels innovation across supply chains, ensuring that products reach consumers faster and at lower costs. How does oil and gas production drive global supply chain innovation? What are the key factors behind efficiency in oil and gas production?

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Successfully navigating this environment requires not just operational discipline, but also agility, strong local partnerships and resilient supply chain design. ports be carried on ships that are built in America, and owned and crewed by Americans. Imagine shipping to Hawaii as an obstacle course. A second layer of pricing.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 7, 2025

With more than 150 years of operations, Kraft Heinz runs one of the most complex supply chains in the food and beverage industry, managing over 5,000 SKUs across more than 30 factories and 100 distribution points in North America alone. But complexity came with challenges. Can we implement this remotely? The answer was yes.”

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

It might mean setting up plants in Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America, aa means of cutting transit time and responding more quickly to changing patterns of demand. They can make selections based on an optimal mix of price, quality and geographic location. It could even entail some degree of domestic production.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 19, 2025

A team from Blue Yonder attended the recent Gartner ® Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. We were delighted to see two of our customers, PepsiCo and Knauf, take center stage to discuss their successful application of technology to improve their supply chain results. Supply chains must be as well. Value-Driven.”—encouraged

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Freight Waves

JULY 9, 2025

importers are beginning to adapt their supply chains amid ongoing tariff and policy shifts, with year-to-date import volumes tracking 3.8% Diverse sourcing: Evaluating supplier and factory locations can mitigate risks associated with over-reliance on specific regions, a crucial step in maintaining supply chain resilience.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2025

In the ever-evolving landscape of supply chain planning, Blue Yonder has again emerged as an industry-recognized Leader. The Gartner 2025 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions 1 report positions Blue Yonder furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision. Our recent shift to a SaaS model is a great example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Reshoring, the practice of bringing manufacturing operations back to the United States, has gained renewed momentum in recent years, largely driven by a combination of political priorities, economic strategies, and global supply chain disruptions. The Case for Reshoring: Benefits for Supply Chains 1.

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Freight Waves

JULY 11, 2025

By integrating services that are often managed separately, like sourcing, kitting, delivery, and product recovery, the new venture promises to reduce packaging waste and lower carbon emissions across the supply chain. Illuminate Group CEO Tyler Smith noted the increasing need for a reliable and circular model.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 9, 2025

More than 300 senior leaders in supply chain, commercial, and IT came together for a day shaped by strategic conversations, peer exchange, and real-world insight. Barilla began with process design, defining core needs across demand, distribution, production, and order promising. Planning connects production to sales,” Stefano said.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 2, 2025

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides the latest edition of our news capsule follow-up, namely an update on previous significant developments or commentaries that we have featured on this blog. This move raised the specter of a wider consolidation of China ’s domestic EV market players, including possible Tesla.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As Founder and Executive Editor , I am pleased to announce to our global-wide Supply Chain Matters readership that Adaptive Supply Chain Planning technology provider ketteQ will be an additional Named Sponsor of this independent thought leadership platform.

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 25, 2025

THE CURRENT STATE OF THE BATTERY INDUSTRY Battery companies have seen remarkable advancements over the past decade, driven by the increasing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy storage solutions. Raw Materials Supply: The production of lithium-ion batteries relies heavily on raw materials like lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 9, 2025

Amsterdam, NL – aim10x Europe, hosted by o9 Solutions, brought together more than 300 senior leaders from supply chain, commercial, and IT functions for a focused day of discussion on digital transformation. Following a successful pilot in North America, RHI Magnesita expanded the rollout to Europe.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Presented by Blue Yonder customer DHL, Manifest brings together Fortune 500 global supply chain executives, logistics service providers (LSPs), innovators and investors. More than 400 speakers, including Blue Yonder customersand partners, discussed leading-edge innovations and technologies that are transforming the end-to-end supply chain.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 9, 2025

Amsterdam, NL – aim10x Europe, hosted by o9 Solutions, gathered more than 300 senior leaders from supply chain, commercial, and IT functions for a day designed to drive real dialogue and hands-on learning. Respond : Embedding agility to meet dynamic consumer and market demands. Anders also advised against unnecessary customization.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 9, 2025

At the same time, McKinsey reports that nearly 70% of executives expect AI to materially reshape their operating models within three years. Supply chain is focused on cost and inventory. No technology existed that could model the complexity of both commercial and supply chain decisions,” Chakri explained.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

He transitioned to enterprise software and quickly latched on to the cloud deployment model. With over 25 equipment types, not just Dry Van, Reefer and Flatbed, Farelanes provides truckload freight data analytics services for North America. He helped pioneer an integrated credit card solution for the fare gate/public transit industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 24, 2025

Supply Chain Matters highlights todays joint partnership announcement among mid market ERP software provider Infor and Kinaxis launching Kinaxis Planning One for Infor CloudSuites Discrete Manufacturing. Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog. All rights reserved.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2025

First, the list: A transformation in customer experience The two workforces of the future Social commerce and community commerce Dynamic and intelligent supply chains Want to see how AI is powering a supply chain revolution? Now, lets dig in. The two workforces of the future AI agents are having a moment.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 11, 2025

Supply chain and procurement leaders must now navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment, balancing cost efficiency with risk mitigation. Here are some takeaways that can help strengthen supply chains against tariff uncertainty.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 3, 2025

I recently hosted a panel discussion with Elizabeth Zucker, Senior Director, Procurement Advisory North America at The Hackett Group, and Martin Adamek, Senior Manager, Procurement at TE Connectivity. Other priorities raise yet more demands in terms of skills development. Watch now

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 12, 2025

Pandora: Turning Strategy into Execution Anders Frandsen, Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Pandora, walked us through their HERO transformation, a program that is reshaping how one of the world’s largest jewelry brands plans and operates globally. Stick to the reference model as much as possible.” Sessions That Stuck With Me 1.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 20, 2025

The letter was signed by Andrew Williams, the CEO of DHL Express Americas, and Geoff Walsh, CEO of DHL Express Canada, who urged Ottawa to intervene — as it recently did in the ongoing Canada Post labor dispute. “We It also seeks to revise the compensation model for owner-operators in response to changing market conditions.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A look at how Trump’s proposed tariffs impact trade and supply chain including supply chain projections and actionable steps businesses can take to prepare now. In this blog, we explore supply chain projections, the challenges of reshoring, and the actions that businesses can take to prepare their supply chains now.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. Over the last several years, we have worked diligently with our vendors to further diversify our global supply chain. Third, we are identifying further supply chain efficiencies in our network. Then, we look at alternative sources of supply.

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