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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JANUARY 23, 2025

2] Matthew Lekstutis , Director for North America at Efficio, believes that the uncertainty about how events will unfold in 2025 requires supply chains to be extremely agile. With these solutions, supply chains can proactively address disruptions and minimize delays and inventory shortages. More supply chain diversification.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 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 24, 2025

One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. 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. growth for all 2025, 2.8%

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 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

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 9, 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.

Gartner

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

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.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

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.) For many of us that doesn’t sound much like respect for people. Do it your way and get on with it.” What is the result?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 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.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 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.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 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

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. But in 2005 Gartner acquired Meta, and Klappich’s career and industry profile took off.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 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 11, 2025

Click here to send us your comments January New that supply chain software provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. Kenworth stated that its decision came from the need to embrace cleaner, more efficient solutions. Here, my choices for the top or most interesting stories by month in the first half of the 2025: Gilmore Says.

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EFT

MAY 19, 2025

bookings for container transport from China to the United States spiked almost 300% in the wake of the United States and China pausing punishing tit-for-tat tariffs, container-tracking software provider Vizion said on Wednesday. China to US ocean cargo bookings surge after tariff pause, Vizion says U.S.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

As can be seen, it was a mixed year for our supply chain software stocks, with some big winners, including software firm Kinaxsis (up 149.9%) and Oracle (up 64.4%). Gilmore Says. What do you say? Click here to send us your comments The overall market, as measured by the S&P 500 index, was up a solid 13.4% in the past year.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

in 2023), were barely up from 2023 last year under the reports calculation, which includes the cost of warehousing and inventory levels but also the cost of capital (which drives the cost of holding inventory). CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. of the total, versus 28.6%

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 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.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

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. It is fortunate that this industry offers a wide variety of outstanding hardware and software.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 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

JUNE 19, 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

AUGUST 12, 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. 12, 2025 Late last week, Amazon released its Q2 2025 earnings report.

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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. Not technologically. Not mentally.” The reality is that “We say we want to decarbonize.

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

If you were in the Warehouse Management System (WMS) market in the past 20 years you knew Klappich. 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.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 2025

According to the Wall Street Journal, the average warehouse vacancy rate across the US ticked up to 7.1% According to the Wall Street Journal, the average warehouse vacancy rate across the US ticked up to 7.1% in the second quarter from 6.9% the previous quarter and 6.1% in the second quarter from 6.9% the previous quarter and 6.1%

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. 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

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 8, 2025

Replenishment of the split case locations became the bottleneck, in part because of an issue I still have never seen a great solution for: when volumes for a wave will wipe out a location’s inventory, but the required replenishment exceeds the location’s capacity when it arrives. It was a helluva year and heck of a story. Hope you enjoy.

Distribution

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.

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 12, 2025

Click here to send us your comments The four truck OEMs united in filing the suit are: • Daimler Truck North America • International Motors • Paccar Inc. • Volvo Group North America “The OEMs are in an impossible position,” according to the lawsuit. “On What do you say?

California

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 5, 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

AUGUST 7, 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

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, a little down from 49.0

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

TuffAir’s strategy was novel, integrating small-aircraft logistics, FAA exemptions, Ohio-based test zones and proprietary software and flight routing technology.” 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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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 19, 2025

Around 47% of consumers state they are likely to purchase from a brand that includes diversity in its advertising. Chevrolet, for instance, tried to sell its “Nova” car in Latin America, not realizing that “no va” in Spanish literally means “it doesn’t go.” But a casual tone works in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Execs at the world’s biggest truck maker, including Daimler Truck North America CEO John O’Leary, told analysts and investors the company was pumping the brakes on investment in alternative powertrains, particularly in North America. (

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