BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As the size and scale of their worldwide supply chains increase, many manufacturers, retailers and distributors are finding themselves constrained by shortfalls in resources, capacity and specialized knowledge. In my recent blog post about the U.S.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 17, 2025

Of course its a positive development, driving significant economic benefits. Of course, this damages both LSP-retailer relationships and retailer-consumer relationships. It also fuels price competition, which is good for shoppers. But lets be honest. A need for agile, real-time decision-making.

Optimal Sourcing

SCMDOJO

JULY 6, 2025

A sudden supplier shutdown, transport delays, or a missed delivery can throw everything off balance. These elements keep deliveries on track even when a supplier faces capacity issues. Of course, local and nearshore options may carry higher upfront costs. That is, until something goes wrong.

Manufacturing Procurement

Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Unfortunately, batteries for electric trucks can weigh several tons , which means a tricky trade-off between travel range and maximum cargo capacity. Reduced Cargo Capacity: Heavier batteries mean less freight can be hauled to stay within legal weight limits, which vastly reduces the truck’s efficiency and profitability.

Freight

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?”

Supply Chain Design Software

Locus

JULY 24, 2025

AI-powered route optimization solves this challenge by factoring in real-time traffic, order priorities, and vehicle capacity. Improved driver productivity: Assigns the right stops to the right drivers based on location, capacity, and availability. This makes integrating AI tools complicated, especially at scale.

Optimal Sourcing

Stord

JULY 23, 2025

Manufacturing, transportation, and inbound warehousing consume resources before products are even available to sell. Transportation Unnecessary movement of goods—especially across facilities, between buildings, or due to poor slotting—adds time and cost without improving service.

Material Savings

Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2024

But as the costs of transportation increase, the length of supply lines is beginning to decrease. Driving factors include rising labor costs, geopolitical considerations, rising transportation costs, and increased risks of supply chain disruptions. . As a result, globalization is beginning to look more like regionalization.”[2]

China

BlueYonder

MARCH 20, 2025

Improved supply chain flexibility Of course, production isnt the only function where digitalization has driven increased agility and responsiveness. Decision automation means that many choices and course corrections happen automatically and immediately, so consumers never even see or feel the bumps along the way.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Once AI agents have sensed a disruption, powerful decision engines can conduct deep analysis, run what-if scenarios, and arrive at an intelligent, profitable course correction in mere minutes. Of course, decisions made in response to big changes, like an impending storm, get a lot of attention.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

APRIL 14, 2025

While manual planning processes can take weeks to respond to upstream and downstream surprises, todays always on digital decision engines continuously and automatically course correct in mere seconds, based on matching real-time data with longer-term strategic goals.

Inventory Reduction

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 Digest

JULY 16, 2025

As an example, Gartner cites the 94% of supply chain logistics leaders that either currently have a supply chain management transportation system or plan to deploy one in the next one or two years. ( link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

To build communication competence across regions, SCMDOJOs Communication Strategies Course for Supply Chain Professionals is an excellent resource. Audio translators bridged communication divides, facilitating rapid onboarding of new vendors and transport partners in non-English-speaking countries.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 10, 2025

Increased variety complicates production scheduling and makes it harder to optimize capacity utilization. Due to fluctuating demand and disruptions, manufacturers may struggle to keep their factories running at full capacity. Even different body styles built on a common chassis require different parts.

Modeling

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Even today when one reads the numerous articles about the benefits of manufacturing or assembling in Mexico, most of them highlight Mexico's low-cost labor and, of course, its proximity to the US market. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. from 2023.

El Paso

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 18, 2025

For example, an industrial PC used for transportation may look very different from one used in manufacturing. Thanks to their robust nature, industrial PCs are used by various industries, including food processing, automotive, medical, manufacturing, and transportation. What is an Industrial PC?

Industry

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

“Supply chain planners are often very skilled at mathematics and operational minutiae, but they typically haven’t mastered the storytelling skills required to make business cases for earlier, higher-quality engagement and for making strategic capacity investments to support future demand,” Aronow observes. We have to keep this in mind.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

MARCH 12, 2025

al, 2024, an integrated logistics network refers to a streamlined supply chain where various stakeholders including manufacturers, distributors, transporters, and retailers, collaborate using advanced technology and optimized processes. Understanding Integrated Logistics Networks According to the research paper by Judijanto et.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Theyll be looking for new suppliers, exploring new network models, mapping new trade routes, and identifying new transportation modes and partners. For example, if an LSP cant find capacity in its current network, the Blue Yonder Command and Control Center applies AI agents to extend that network, in seconds, in search of a resolution.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

That, of course, should come as no surprise, given its huge investment in automation. ( Of course, AI is also playing a key role here too. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

It frankly may have to do with in effect getting more companies in the top 25 plus the Masters category combined - Gartner clients like that recognition, of course. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Why does Gartner do this? It may also allow the top 25 list to appear a bit more dynamic.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Supply Chain Digest Says.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

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. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! We have to keep this in mind.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Since early 2025, the US Surface Transportation Board, the federal regulatory agency overseeing railroads, has signaled a more industry-friendly approach to merger reviews. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Supply Chain Digest Says. What do you say? We have to keep this in mind.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

The idea is that the package delivery robots will be transported in Amazon’s fleet of Rivian electric vans and will soon be ready to start real-world testing at a new facility. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! That left logistics costs as a percent of US GDP down a bit in 2024 to 8.7%.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4 of total transport costs and 38.5% of total transport costs and 8.9% of transportation spend – down from 6.1% With overall transport costs rising 8.7% Gilmore Says.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! These schedule interrutions are "variability" that is disrupting flow and, thereby, increasing lead-times, using unplanned capacity and generating excessive (and still unbalanced) inventories. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

Supply Chain Design Software