Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

Leveraging data on the fleet age, vendor capabilities, and location capacity, the company was able to improve forecast accuracy by 15%, reduce inventory levels by 10%, and even increase customer satisfaction. The business required 100% vehicle uptime but struggled to meet this goal and manage spare parts inventory.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

You’ll discover a unique threefold strategy that enables workers to pick more items in less time with up to 30% fewer robots compared to legacy systems.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Jones Act regulations, limited carrier options, capacity constraints, inter-island transfers and price rigidity all make Hawaii a challenging edge case for shippers that requires bespoke strategies and careful thinking. When demand chokes existing carrier capacity, a typical response is to raise rates, which then attracts additional carriers.

Hawaii

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

By going vertical, you can dramatically increase storage capacity without changing your footprint. Modular systems make it easy to expand as your business grows. 4 Maximize Your Existing Space If you’re only storing inventory at eye level, you’re missing out on massive potential.

Supply Chain Software

Locus

JULY 28, 2025

Key Takeaways Last-mile transportation refers to the final leg of delivery, from a distribution hub to the end customer, and is the most cost-intensive and operationally complex stage. To service these areas, logistics providers deploy micro-distribution hubs and rely on local delivery agents or franchise partners.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Power outages, evacuations, and closures of key transportation routes have disrupted production and distribution networks in the Southern California region and beyond. Supply Shortages: Interruptions to manufacturing and distribution centers could result in reduced inventory availability.

California

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 11, 2025

By automating repetitive tasks and providing intelligent insights, AI gives staff more capacity to focus on problem-solving, customer service and strategic planning — areas where human judgment and creativity remain irreplaceable. Perhaps most importantly, the right AI foundation empowers teams rather than displacing them.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 11, 2025

Investments in domestic capacity provide faster fulfillment cycles, stronger regulatory alignment, and improved response to recalls or demand spikes. Will Correct Extremely Regrettable Tariff Error Global Trade & Economics FAA Proposes Extending Newark Flight Restrictions Through 2026 Air Cargo U.S.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

Owners and lessees benefit from automation capacity that can be dynamically aligned with warehouse demand. Scalability and Flexibility Warehouses experience fluctuations in demand due to seasonal peaks, new contracts or shifting customer needs.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

Their ultra-dense design means you can shrink your storage area by as much as 75% — or dramatically increase capacity without adding square footage. The right provider will minimize disruption during deployment and offer phased implementation plans that match your capacity and budget. What does the cut-over to automation look like?”

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

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Packaging

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 20, 2025

We have taken this proactive measure to safeguard our people, assets, and customers’ cargo in light of increased regional instability." The safety and security of our seafarers and operations are our top priorities," Maersk said in a statement June 20. "We

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. Global Supply Chain Management Argentina: A New Opportunity in Latin America’s Industrial Sector Global Supply Chain Management U.S.-Swiss

Survey

Stord

MAY 29, 2025

This also triggered a 42% surge in blank sailings on trans-Pacific east-bound routes compared to March, as carriers aggressively canceled trips to realign capacity with diminished demand. Now, carriers are racing to restore service, with new sailings being reinstated and overbooked vessels pushing capacity to its limits through May.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 3, 2025

VS America wanted to formulate a supply chain strategy for right-sizing its distribution footprint and improving the end-to-end flow of products from its manufacturing plants to its end customers. At the start of JLLs engagement, VS America maintained two distribution facilities in Houston, TX and Charlotte, NC.

Real Estate

SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

Sourcing raw materials from Asia, coordinating freight with European logistics providers, or navigating distribution networks in the Americas cross-border operations rely on effective communication to make them happen. This served to dampen container buildup and accelerated the transit of time-sensitive cargo.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 30, 2025

The port blamed several factors, including irregular arrival schedules exacerbated by ships rerouting around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Red Sea, as well as the recent reshuffling of container alliances that led to a slew of simultaneous vessel calls and high cargo volumes.

Europe

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

However, the transition will be gradual, with disruptions likely in the interim as companies navigate capacity constraints and geopolitical risks. A 2025 MIT Supply Chain study found that nearshoring reduced logistics-related emissions by 10% for some firms.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) 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.

Cargo

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 6, 2025

As Mexico and Brazil face saturation or logistical bottlenecks, the country offers untapped capacity, skilled labor, and now, a hungry industrial sector ready to upgrade. Logistics firms in Córdoba, Rosario, and Buenos Aires report a spike in inquiries from companies exploring operations, warehousing, or regional distribution outposts.

Argentina

Freight Center

JUNE 18, 2025

Mexico border, aims to separate commercial cargo from regular traffic, cut down inspection times, bolster security, and support far more efficient trade flows along a corridor that handles over $300 billion annually. Investment in infrastructure and logistics capacity is ramping up to meet these changes head-on.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. I think we could lose 10% of Capacity in many areas.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

In the shareholder letter, Barra said the investments will “greatly reduce our tariff exposure,” with the new manufacturing capacity to begin coming online in 18 months. in Q2 GM Says Tariffs Cost $1.1B In June 2025, GM announced plans to invest $4 billion over the next two years into three U.S.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

Greece, home to more oil oil-tanker capacity than any other nation, cautioned its ship owners to think again if considering entering the Persian Gulf in the wake of U.S. airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities. airstrikes.

Iran

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. I think we could lose 10% of Capacity in many areas. That is what is happening right now,” Mortimer says. What is going on? per sqft per month? $40+

South Africa

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 15, 2025

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Mexico

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 11, 2025

Shipowners now have to pay about 1% of a ship’s value if they want to pass through the Red Sea, said Marcus Baker, global head of marine cargo and logistics at Marsh McLennan, the world’s largest insurance broker. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. That’s up from 0.2%

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 15, 2025

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Negotiate Pricing

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

After securing access to TuffAir’s materials, Amazon abruptly ceased communications, only to unveil a remarkably similar regional air cargo model within months, based on the same technical, operational and strategic elements TuffAir had disclosed,” the company alleged in its legal filing. No comment as yet on the suit from Amazon.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

The Hong Kong Convention addresses key environmental, occupational health, and safety risks involved in the recycling of ships, while distributing responsibilities and obligations across relevant stakeholders — shipowners, ship building yards, ship recycling facilities, flag states, port states and recycling states.

Shipping

Freightos

APRIL 2, 2024

More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.

Cargo

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The unprecedented cargo logjams off the southern California coast wreaking havoc on supply chains show no signs of waning. Carrier capacity tops the list of parcel shippers’ challenges. E-commerce order volume keeps climbing, straining carrier capacity with shippers sending more parcels outbound and receiving more returns inbound.

Capacity

AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. The study include d firms in the retail, manufacturing and distribution verticals. L ogistics providers like Maersk are forced to announce blank sailings due to curtailed demand.

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Approximately 73% of respondents cited progress in omnichannel improvements over the past year, but express cautious optimism for their company's supply chain and capacity. Tight capacity and high rates. Shrinking capacity from higher freight volumes results in higher rates throughout peak season and beyond.

Shipping

Talking Logistics

APRIL 4, 2018

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. The past, present and future market forces causing today’s extreme truck capacity shortage include: Strong Economy. Holiday Season.

Capacity