Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

For example, switching from air to ocean freight for non-time sensitive shipments can reduce carbon emissions by up to 95% per unit shipped. This means developing supplier evaluation frameworks that include carbon metrics, working together on joint emission reduction projects, and incentivising suppliers to meet or beat carbon targets.

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Freight Waves

JULY 1, 2025

Springs said, “We’re seeing consistent increases in safety metrics.” While we always aim to improve these metrics, it’s not just about numbers — it’s about caring for our people.” Nutrien Ag Solutions, using Samsara’s technology, saw a major reduction in incidents since adopting the platform three years ago.

Optimization Software 105

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Running procurement and supply chain without metrics is like driving blindfolded. Decoding the Metrics: What Are They Telling You? This metric is used to measure the efficiency and reliability of carriers in meeting their pickup commitments. Action: Conduct a spend analysis to identify consolidation opportunities.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 6, 2025

Look for features like: Shipment Reports Performance Metrics Cost Analysis These insights can help you identify trends, pinpoint inefficiencies, and optimize your shipping strategy. Your shipment management software should provide detailed reports and analytics to help you make informed decisions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 19, 2025

Tie rewards directly to the metrics that move your business forward. Think reduced inventory shrinkage, increased on-time deliveries, or successfully negotiated freight contracts. ” Instead, try “Your meticulous data analysis caught that reporting error and saved us thousands!”

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While CPI is normally used within project management and earned value analysis, it has significant application and importance within supply chain contexts, particularly in procurement, logistics and warehousing. One way to assess the cost performance of any function within the supply chain is through Cost Performance Index (CPI).

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Logistics & Transportation Failures: Port congestion, rising freight costs, and fuel shortages. Conduct a Supply Market Analysis: Use PESTEL and SWOT frameworks. Define Procurement KPIs & Performance Metrics: Track cost savings, supplier compliance, and efficiency.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 25, 2025

Strengthen Third-Party Vendor Security Your logistics business relies on a network of partners, including shipping carriers, freight brokers, and software providers. After resolving the incident, conduct a post-mortem analysis to detect weaknesses and improve future defenses.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence-driven platforms are transforming carbon accounting by automating data collection and analysis. By contrast, companies that digitize their carbon tracking shorten the learning curve and accelerate progress toward their sustainability goals. AI also provides visibility into emissions across the supply chain.

Rail Software 91

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Koganti urged the procurement audience to look for whats referred to as “foresight function” in planning tools, which is capable of enhancing data analysis, scenario generation and trend identification , allowing for more informed and proactive decision-making, albeit with human oversight.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

When pricing decisions are grounded in comprehensive data analysis and scenario modelling, businesses can move decisively while others hesitate, uncertain of the implications of their choices. In addition to speed, the key differentiator when it comes to advanced pricing technology is informed confidence.

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Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

Management believes that investors and financial analysts measure our business on the same basis, and we are providing the Adjusted EBITDA financial metric to assist in this evaluation and to provide a higher level of transparency into how we measure our own business.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Use tools like business credit reports, payment history analysis, and trade references to evaluate customer financial stability and identify early warning signs of potential payment delays. Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics U.S.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 29, 2025

Supply chain reports are data-driven documents that provide key metrics and insights into various aspects of your supply chain, including: Inventory Levels Tracking stock levels in real-time to ensure adequate inventory to meet demand while minimizing holding costs. What are Supply Chain Reports?

Inventory Reduction 98

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

So argues Greg Petro, CEO of First Insight , a retail platform that uses AI analysis of consumer feedback to predict demand, determine pricing thresholds and model scenarios around, for example, differing tariff levels or supply chain bottlenecks.

Price Reduction 87

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

Companies must automate analysis of their product flows and fixed global networks. But fewer than 30% have integrated real-time threat monitoring into their day-to-day decision-making. The risk is clear; the response is not yet sufficient. What can you do? They must integrate real-time threat intelligence with planning and execution systems.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

States Photo: iStock.com/ ronnachaipark July 10, 2025 SupplyChainBrain With no end in sight to the truck driver shortage, many freight firms plan to raise wages and make efforts to improve drivers’ work-life balance, according to a 2025 Logistics Report from Tech.co, a research, analysis and news provider. Some 56% of U.S.

Survey 52

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Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

Reduce freight and logistics costs. Use Spend Analysis and Dashboards Spend analysis is a powerful way to track, evaluate, and understand how and where money is being spent across your organization. Dashboards are visual tools that make spend analysis come to life. 

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Michael Hurd Lean Consultant, Unemployed Posted on: Jun, 10 2017 A Very Good Article.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Global Supply Chain Management The Hydrogen Advantage for Commercial Trucking LTL/Truckload Services NIH to Study Health Impacts from East Palestine Derailment Rail & Intermodal Let’s Talk WMS: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant Findings and Market Analysis Webinars Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Vendor Strategies 52

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

Freight volumes were mixed but mostly down, as the “freight recession” continued on now for more than two years. The Freight Tonnage Index from the ATA for June showed volumes in Q2 basically flat versus Q1, up just 0.2%. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Michael Hurd Lean Consultant, Unemployed Posted on: Jun, 10 2017 A Very Good Article.

Gartner 39

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Michael Hurd Lean Consultant, Unemployed Posted on: Jun, 10 2017 A Very Good Article.

Supply Chain Planning Software 32

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Global Supply Chain Management The Hydrogen Advantage for Commercial Trucking LTL/Truckload Services NIH to Study Health Impacts from East Palestine Derailment Rail & Intermodal Let’s Talk WMS: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant Findings and Market Analysis Webinars Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Optimal Sourcing 59

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Freightos

JUNE 12, 2025

Now, he’s focused on delivering cutting-edge solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, helping them streamline both strategic and operational processes for maximum value.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

They’re one step closer to that realization of the full integration of robotics,” said Rueben Scriven, research manager at Interact Analysis, a robotics technology research firm. Analysis by the Journal found that the average number of employees Amazon had per facility last year, roughly 670, was the lowest recorded in the past 16 years.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Michael Hurd Lean Consultant, Unemployed Posted on: Jun, 10 2017 A Very Good Article.

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft. What do you say?

Cargo 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. As I walked I found a wonderfully clear example of the difference that mutual respect for people makes.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Eurasian Rail Freight: Demand for rail freight between Asia and Europe has surged, leading to congestion and longer booking times. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Contingency planning for alternative ports is essential.

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Click here to send us your comments That according to a recent blog post by the maritime analysts at Drewry, which noted that “More than five years have passed since the huge shipping disruptions, damaging port congestion, and cost spikes of the Covid period, but one feature has remained: freight rate volatility.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Michael Hurd Lean Consultant, Unemployed Posted on: Jun, 10 2017 A Very Good Article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

All that is distant memory now, as the maker of freight trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells announced it had begun selling off its assets. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Michael Hurd Lean Consultant, Unemployed Posted on: Jun, 10 2017 A Very Good Article.

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EFT

MAY 19, 2025

China-US air freight tumbles on 'de minimis' tariff; airlines adjust routes Air freight capacity between China and the U.S. US freight industry hopes for back-to-school demand boost after tariff truce A 90-day trade thaw between Washington and Beijing could prove to be a welcome reprieve for the U.S.

Price Reduction 101

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 30, 2025

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

The monthly report from Cass and partner Tim Denoyer of ACT Research is based on data from the billions of dollars of freight bills that Cass pays for its shipper clients. in 2024, and so far is trending toward another decline in 2025, Cass says, as carriers navigate the lousy freight environment. Supply Chain Digest Says.

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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 the past year, using an unweighted average of the 22 stocks in the index.

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