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How AI Can Help Tame Warehouse Complexity

Logistics Viewpoints

Layer on the daily micro disruptions that every warehouse experiences regardless of size – unexpected or delayed deliveries, inventory shortages, quality issues and scheduled labor or equipment mismatches versus real-time needs—and suddenly running the warehouse becomes unmanageable.

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Delivering the Drinks: Streamlining Beverage Transportation with Kristina Bernarducci

The Logistics of Logistics

Strategic Partnership with Arizona Ice Tea: Bettaway’s long-standing and crucial partnership with Arizona Ice Tea underscores their ability to handle the high-volume and specific logistical needs of a major beverage producer.

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How Tariffs Disrupt Supply Chains: A Closer Look at Strategy, Inventory, and Resilience

RFgen

Tariffs are reshaping sourcing strategies, forcing tech upgrades, and making inventory planning a lot more complicated. For global businesses relying on real-time logistics and lean inventory models, the question is how prepared is your supply chain when tariffs hit? How Do Tariffs Affect Supply Chains? One example?

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Transportation pricing grows faster than capacity again in May

Freight Waves

Inventory costs (78.4) percentage points even as growth in inventory levels (51.5) Inventory levels moved slightly into contraction in the back half of the month. Elevated but static inventories kept available warehouse capacity neutral at 50, which was 5.4 slowed by 5.5 Upstream firms (56.5) Warehouse utilization (62.5)

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February LMI Report Points to Inventory Surges

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights indications providing added evidence that manufacturers and retailers are front loading inventory management actions in attempts to initially hedge against added U.S. We cited indications of the post Lunar New Year ramp-up of global production levels to replenish inventories, more so than in prior years.

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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

Walmart previously scaled back its drone deliveries in 2024, when it ended the service in Utah, Arizona and Florida, in favor of focusing on remaining operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas and Virginia. Eligible products include fresh produce, household essentials and various snack foods.

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Localizing for Profit: Making the Case for U.S.-Based Manufacturing

QAD

TSMCs Arizona plant has already encountered delays due to a lack of skilled workers, demonstrating the difficulty of rapidly scaling U.S. However, shifting away from it requires significant investment in inventory and logistics. Operational Realities: Challenges & Advantages of Reshoring The U.S. production.