ThroughPut

JUNE 2, 2025

In 2025, the landscape of spare parts management is undergoing a seismic shift. Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) professionals, heads of maintenance, and spare parts managers are navigating an environment shaped by supply chain volatility, legacy infrastructure, and an explosion of data.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 10, 2025

Accurate measurements are important for following the law and running things smoothly in transportation and logistics. We’ll cover weighbridge technology, new calibration methods, and expert tips to help you get the most accurate measurements possible. When you notice weird readings or think there might be accuracy problems.

Supply Chain Design Software

ThroughPut

JUNE 2, 2025

In 2025, the landscape of spare parts management is undergoing a seismic shift. Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) professionals, heads of maintenance, and spare parts managers are navigating an environment shaped by supply chain volatility, legacy infrastructure, and an explosion of data.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Digital twins are emerging as digital transformation accelerators for supply chain and logistics organizations seeking enterprise-level visibility, real-time scenario modeling, and operational agility under disruption. This article explores how digital twins are being deployed in transportation, warehousing, and network design.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2025

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is a radio frequency technology operating across a wide spectrum from 3.1 UWB technology is standardized under IEEE 802.15.4, Industry Ecosystem: The FiRa Consortium is an industry alliance dedicated to promoting interoperability and the widespread adoption of UWB technology across various applications.

Optimization Software

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2025

In this special edition of our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column, we highlight two noteworthy investments. One is a rather significant acquisition announcement that has the potential to change the global transportation and logistics landscape. based technology providers.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

The unnamed investor would join as a significant member of the consortium, the company said in a stock exchange filing July 28, hours after the expiry of a 145-day exclusive talks window with the group backed by American asset manager BlackRock Inc. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2021

I am wrapping up my Transportation Management Systems market study which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, and customer size. Transportation management systems include 2 types of solutions.

Optimization Software

The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2024

Kelly is the VP, Product Management of Trimble Transportation , a technology company that offers a suite of transportation technology solutions, including fleet management, route optimization, and freight visibility tools, to improve efficiency and safety.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supply chain application to help manage their supply chains. Supply chain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. The agent technology is much more complicated than the math.

Optimal Sourcing

GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The ability to optimally integrate all areas of the supply chain is key to meeting customer and shareholder needs. Finding an experienced partner to manage and engineer end to end supply chain solutions allows you to achieve this global undertaking and an efficient supply chain.

Resource Reduction

GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

Technology and Manufacturing: It is a Part of the Cerasis DNA & How we Empower our Manufacturing Shippers. At Cerasis, our backbone is business process improvement through technology. Our technology department in Tulsa is comprised of several developers who solve our customers’ transportation management needs.

Manufacturing Procurement

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This level of connectivity will have profound social, political and economic consequences, and increasingly form part of our everyday lives, from the cars we drive and medicines we take, to the jobs we do and the governance systems we live in, to even the business technology systems we use. ” But first, let’s back up a bit.

Internet of things

GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2016

Yesterday we began our two part series on 2016 supply chain trends that will drive supply chain management into the future. As with most trends we all have read over the last few years, the focus was on technology. Supply Chain Trends 2016: 5 Additional More Areas of Focus.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Talking Logistics

JULY 24, 2015

There was a lot of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to it. Transplace Launches Supply Chain Consulting Practice. Transplace Launches Supply Chain Consulting Practice. LEGACY Supply Chain Services Launches Grader Tool and eBook to Evaluate Supply Chain Performance.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

GlobalTranz

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Manufacturing Industry Faces a Number of Challenges in its Daily Functioning ERP systems can augment smooth workflow and speed up inventory management, manage market fluctuations and supply chain issues. So, if you are still wondering why to invest in an ERP software suite – don’t waste any more precious time.

Inventory Management Software

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this instalment of the series of articles written by the LSCMS Shippers Council, we strive to answer this and delve into the critical aspects of ocean transit time reliability and visibility within the supply chain. What is supply chain visibility and why it is important? 2022 ocean schedule reliability dropped to 30%.

Rail Software

PINC

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Investment Marks Second Acquisition for PINC in Less Than 30 Days of Complementary Supply Chain Management Software Capabilities. These add-on acquisitions support PINC’s goal of expanding its digital yard and transportation management solutions to help clients further optimize their complex supply chains.

Rail Software

The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2021

Reimagining the Food Supply Chain with Eric Ristow and Luis Pajares. Eric Ristow , Luis Pajares , and Joe Lynch discuss reimagining the food supply chain. In this role, he ensures custom-built software, as well as SaaS applications, meet the needs of Lineage’s customers. About Eric Ristow.

Supply Chain Planning Software

The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Reimagining the Food Supply Chain with Eric Ristow and Luis Pajares. Eric Ristow , Luis Pajares , and Joe Lynch discuss reimagining the food supply chain. In this role, he ensures custom-built software, as well as SaaS applications, meet the needs of Lineage’s customers. About Eric Ristow.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Elementum

JULY 7, 2022

Business project management software is often overlooked in supply chain management in favor of SCM functions, but is there an advantage in combining the two? The best project management software for supply chain professionals is often a solution that integrates with SCM, ensuring the systems benefit each other.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The same goes for many planned and well-organized supply chain processes – they carry with them the threat of unplanned and unintended events, especially when moving product from the point of origin to its final destination. Brooks Bentz is President, Supply Chain Consulting Services at Transplace. Customer returns.

Reverse Logistics

BlueYonder

JUNE 26, 2020

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today. In 2007, the U.S.

Waste Reduction

Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Lots of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s get started… Transplace Introduces Preferred Shipper Checklist. Rockfarm Supply Chain Solutions Announces Acquisition of Global Distribution & Logistics. Kuebix Announces New Name and Disruptive Technology.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 9, 2021

Several years ago, the staff at Blume Global wrote, “[Internet of Things] devices have revolutionized supply chain management (SCM). ”[1] Fast forward to 2021 and it’s reasonable ask if the Internet of Things (IoT) has really revolutionized supply chain operations.

Internet of things

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Japanese pension asks every one of their asset managers to start having systematic conversations with every company they invest in about that company’s approach to environmental, social, and governance issues. Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Trade Off Machines. A SCP solution creates a model of a supply chain.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This was my first experience with Outsourcing, or what I refer to as “Supply Chain as a Service” (SCaaS). Most of you are likely familiar with the phrase, Software as a Service (SaaS). ” SaaS is also referred to as On-Demand Software. .” ” SaaS is also referred to as On-Demand Software.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

RFgen

AUGUST 21, 2019

Many fear that autonomous trucks will further eliminate human jobs, but experts view human-automation cooperation as the future. With the trucking industry struggling to cope with chronic driver shortages and increasingly strict regulations, is road transportation being “driven” toward a future that doesn’t involve humans?

Inventory Management Software

ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

What is supply chain optimization? Supply chain optimization is a key component of the manufacturing supply chain process, helping companies control their input costs to be able to provide effective goods or services to their customers. What does supply chain optimization involve?

Optimal Sourcing

QAD

APRIL 2, 2020

QAD Enterprise Asset Management has improved plant maintenance, capital projects and MRO purchasing capabilities for improved asset utilization and lower costs. QAD Manufacturing delivers additional automation and improved usability for planning, production, forecasting and quality activities.

Manufacturing Procurement

ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Supply chain analytics combines powerful algorithms, data, and the latest technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to address the most elusive challenges in the supply chain right now – visibility and control. By 2032, the supply chain analytics market is expected to reach USD 38.78

Prescriptive Analytics Software

ThroughPut

APRIL 2, 2020

What is Supply Chain Optimization? Supply chain optimization is a key component of the manufacturing supply chain process, helping companies control their input costs to be able to provide effective goods or services to their customers. What does supply chain optimization involve?

Optimal Sourcing

Oracle SCM

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The acronym SCM stands for supply chain management. SCM systems deliver the visibility, insights, and capabilities you need to create your own intelligent supply chain. Supply chain teams must be able to design, order, plan, source, make, and deliver new products and services quickly and efficiently.

SCM

AFFLINK

AUGUST 28, 2019

In the hotel business, your profit is often controlled by your supply chain. The more you can cut your supply chain costs, the more you can cut your overhead; the more you can cut your overhead, the higher the return on your investments. However, managing and optimizing your supply chain isn't an easy task.

Negotiating Skills

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2020

Many economic sectors will eventually be affected by IoT implementation, including supply chains. The IoT will significantly impact how supply chains function. Benefits of IoT in the supply chain. Below are some of the ways subject matter experts assert IoT implementation can benefit supply chains.

Internet of things

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement by LSCMS Shippers’ Council Container shipping procurement faces a multitude of challenges shaped by global events, industry shifts, environmental mandates, and technological advancements. It serves as the compass guiding shippers toward efficient, economical, and dependable cargo transport.

Optimal Sourcing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 24, 2023

The Association for Supply Chain Management’s Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model provides seven primary processes that will ensure order fulfilment is carried out properly and efficiently — Orchestrate, Plan, Order, Source, Transform, Fulfill and Return.

Optimal Sourcing