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10 Best Route Planning Software in 2025

Locus

Streamline Your Route Planning Process Daily route planning can quickly become overwhelming, especially if you’re managing delivery routes using spreadsheets, manual methods, or basic mapping tools. Top 10 Route Planning Software Solutions: Overview Here’s a quick comparison of the top route planning software solutions in 2025.

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Gartner Wades into Geo Politics with Advice for Supply Chains given Iran Israeli Hostilities

Supply Chain Digest

Eurasian Rail Freight: Demand for rail freight between Asia and Europe has surged, leading to congestion and longer booking times. 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. Contingency planning for alternative ports is essential.

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Ocean Container Spot Rates Continue to be Volatile

Supply Chain Digest

Drewry notes that transpacific rates from Asia to the US West Coast have been especially volatile in the last six months, in the context of tariff announcements and sudden changes in both capacity and demand. I agree that companies choose the 'safe' solution more often than not.

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The need to know

EFT

dropped by almost a third after a tax-free exemption for low-value items out of China was removed this month, industry data showed, denting a significant revenue stream for Asia's major airlines. China-US air freight tumbles on 'de minimis' tariff; airlines adjust routes Air freight capacity between China and the U.S.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

In this role he supported the different businesses (12 in Europe and 11 in Asia) for all aspects of the Supply Chain; but Peter did not have direct Asia Sourcing/manufacturing accountability. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As Improvement.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility. No company interviewed was able to successfully use their current what-if solutions to model pandemic impacts. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

The trade with Asia we take for granted today was only possible by mitigating a significant supply chain trade-off – reducing costs without appreciable impacts to quality and service. Technical innovations can also impact supply chains, which is why many turn to supply chain planning solutions, which are designed to be trade-off machines.