Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

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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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In SIOP, accountability is a huge part of achieving desired outcomes, improving monthly metrics and satisfying the customer needs. Her project delivery experience includes logistics vendor assessments, planning system implementation, and new process adoption. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During The Index is a methodology developed by Supply Chain Insights LLC, in cooperation with the Operations Research Team at Arizona State University (ASU), to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. Our aim was to maintain a 3 to 3.5

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

To make the list, companies out-performed their peer group on operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital while driving significant improvement in financial metrics over the period.Supply Chain Improvement is based on a detailed analysis calculated factors for balance, strength and resiliency. Learn More. September 16-18.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 14, 2025

Now, with the publishing of the February 2025 Logistics Managers Index , there is added evidence that manufacturers and retailers have been pre-loading inventory levels at considerable volumes to hedge the expected impacts of increased U.S. import tariffs, including likely retaliatory tariffs. The reported overall value of 62.8

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Material Handling & Logistics ). Material Handling & Logistics ). Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. Logistics Management ). How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. Chain Store Age ).

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that again dropped to an all-time low for June 2023. According to the June report summary , the primary driver of the latest decline was the inventory metric, which reportedly contracted 6.5 Consequently, the warehousing capacity metric increased a reported 6.8 percentage points in June.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that dropped to an all-time low for May 2023. The May report narrative reinforced that “ the negatives seem to outweigh the positives in the logistics industry.” logistics industry continues in a state of recession. Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s release of the U.S. The post U.S.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the biggest players in fulfillment, distribution and omnichannel retail continue to push boundaries, logistics and planning strategists are forced to innovate. Seeing this, we decided that it would be helpful to compile a curated list of 50 of the best tips on logistics planning and strategy that we could find.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we highlight published September 2022 indices of global supply chain volatility ( GSPI ) and US Logistics Index ( LMI ) activity trends along with our view of the implications. Logistics Managers Index. The takeaway for September was that global manufacturing activity officially fall below the 50.0

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Logistics Managers Index. Interestingly, the downshifts we observed in transportation metrics were much more muted in the last week of July, leaving open a possibility for a bit of recovery as we move towards peak season. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector. Additional Data- U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

logistics reinforce both headwinds and added concerns. US Logistics Managers Index. Also reported was less change in Inventory and Warehousing metrics as costs continue to grow and capacity remains tight. Logistics Managers index reflects a lull in imports to U.S. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. The latest U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 17, 2023

As rates continue to fall, industry metrics are beginning to reflect a new reality for the transportation market. The Logistics Managers Index (LMI) showed a reading of 36.9% for December, marking the metric’s fastest decline ever recorded. DoorDash Announces Return Service to Meet Post-Holiday Demand For Reverse Logistics.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

To give you an idea of what this is doing, the classic retail metrics, “same store sales” and “sales per square foot”, are no longer being reported by Macy’s department stores. This is largely driven by the emergence of e-commerce, and in the process, is turning traditional business models on their heads.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. During the presentation, I squirmed uncomfortably in my seat.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Selling directly to the consumer is a powerful engine of growth, but requires the redesign of logistics systems to embrace the ‘each’ Many companies that I work with are quickly moving into 2-6% direct sales, but learning the hard way that it requires rethinking warehouse management and order management. No doubt about it.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2025

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. I want to help. My energy is high.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. million metric tons of steel won’t be subject to a tariff, and any steel beyond that will be subject to a 25 percent duty. As the omicron variants continues to spread around the world, the logistics workforce is being hit hard. Walmart doubles down on delivering groceries to your fridge.

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