Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

Automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) allow you to better utilize your current footprint by storing inventory as high as 40 feet and streamlining pick and putaway operations. ASRS allows operators to make use of untapped vertical space, transforming high ceilings into high-efficiency inventory zones.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain) Forecasting & Demand Planning Inventory Planning/ Optimization Supply Chain Planning & Optimization RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Justin Newell is chief executive officer of INFORM North America.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 10, 2025

And, of course, 41% are going all in on artificial intelligence-powered technologies. Kenco’s 2025 Supply Chain Innovation Survey found that one in four professionals now have $500,000 or more in their budget to incorporate new tools and technologies, and 39% have seen their budgets increase this year.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Leadership workshops, financial literacy programs, and compliance courses can provide the skills new managers need to succeed. Invest in formal management training. Leadership development should be a standard component of fleet management training. Encourage engagement with industry associations.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Imagine a supplier whose customer’s DBT climbs from 12 to 57 over the course of just three months. Our report highlights that erratic payments with sharp spikes and dips in days beyond terms (DBT) are a stronger predictor of financial distress than consistently late payments. DBT is the average number of days a company takes to pay suppliers.)

Cost Reduction Strategies

Stord

MAY 29, 2025

Even as brands sprint to determine the best course action, the future of tariffs and trade remains murky. 8 As such, the challenge to quickly manufacture and transport inventory now, or at a moment's notice, remains paramount. ports can halt cargo for days or weeks. Despite the ruling by the U.S. Delays at major U.S.

Cost Reduction Strategies

SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

To build communication competence across regions, SCMDOJOs Communication Strategies Course for Supply Chain Professionals is an excellent resource. A lack of understanding can lead to misdirected shipments, sitting containers, or wasted inventory.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 3, 2025

As trade policies evolve and geopolitical tensions mount, businesses must prioritize flexibility and resilience in their supply chains or risk inventory shortfalls, shipping delays and further cost inflation. Emphasize core categories and reduce non-essential SKUs to lower inventory costs and minimize overstocks.

Optimal Sourcing

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 24, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing

Freight Waves

JULY 21, 2025

Tariffs have not just been a financial concern but a strategic quagmire, forcing businesses to reassess everything from supply chain logistics to inventory management. For many in Djavaheri’s shoes, lobbying and advocacy seem to be the course left in a bid for clarity and reprieve.

Los Angeles

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. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article!

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 25, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 5, 2025

Debunking such myths is a great deal more difficult than propagating them in the first place, of course. Mexico is also Canada’s third-largest trading partner, and we look forward to strengthening this relationship.” And the technology is getting better, fast.

Mexico

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. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! That is what is happening right now,” Mortimer says.

South Africa

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

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Brazil

Freightos

DECEMBER 17, 2024

You can check out our 2025 air cargo outlook here , or catch our recent 2025 Ocean and Air Outlook webinar here. Typical seasonality could therefore be skewed as shippers make decisions based on when tariffs will go into effect and not on inventory needs around seasonal goods/spending patterns.

Scenario Planning

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 9, 2025

Asked at a European Policy Centre conference in Brussels if she “feared a wipeout,” Henne, who is chief executive of ThyssenKrupp Materials Services, replied: “Of course.” president’s decision June 4 to double tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from 25% to 50%.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. The big three US airlines saw their cargo revenues decline last year as rates and volumes came under pressure. United Airlines – the largest of the three in terms of cargo volumes – registered a 31.1 percent, or $24.5 billion worth, the survey found.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Kinaxis

APRIL 8, 2015

Of course, we’re not only paying to get that envelope from point A to point B, but for a certain level of service as well. A popular subject in several expat Facebook groups is checking to see who’s planning on flying back to their origin country, and whether those individuals would mind taking along a little extra cargo.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Scenarios allow planners to ask all kinds of what-if questions to help determine the best course of action under a variety of future outcomes.

Optimal Sourcing

Freightos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

While high, the shipping costs typically paled in comparison to the lost sales due to inventory shortages. Including, of course by leveraging global freight tech for BCOs. Changing Trends in BCO Air Cargo Procurement. Watch Peak Season Webinar. The Freightos Air Index. Free for a limited time only. Signup Now. Signup Now.

Logistics

GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Using a sophisticated set of AI rules and constraints, such as priority, cargo type, flight schedules, pick-up schedules and resource capabilities, resource assignments are made automatically to handle and process each container within each arriving/departing cargo aircraft. "

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. “We feel good about the composition of our inventory. It's been difficult to plan inventory flow with much precision.

Inventory Reduction

Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. Combined with more activity at their regional hub in Germany , Amazon has clearly become a major global cargo airline. Image via StarAir.dk).

Price Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

During a normal Olympics, millions of spectators flock to venues to watch over 300 events unfold over the course of two-plus weeks. Restaurants, bars find suppliers’ inventories are running dry. However, this year, like most everything during Covid, will be different. FedEx invests $2 billion in sustainability initiatives.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Elementum Expands Supply Chain Management Suite with New Inventory App Powered by World’s Product Graph™. Flexport Raises $65 Million in Venture Capital to Expand Operations (Transport Topics). Blockchain Makes Inroads in Shipping (WSJ – sub. Trade in 2016 to grow at slowest pace since the financial crisis.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

But there’s also something exhilarating about watching a group of kids, over the course of a few short weeks, come together as friends and as a team, overcoming adversity together, celebrating achievements together, and just having plain old fun together regardless of the score. DHL employs robot as picker’s best companion.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Kinaxis

JUNE 13, 2016

They’ll of course see the transport trucks rolling down the road as they pass by, knowing their trailers are full of cargo, but they’ll never bother to think about how that order is triggered, the decisions involved with how much quantity to order, or the complexities (such as expiry dates) of getting that order to their local store.

Pharmaceutical

Logility

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Transportation and shipping issues aren’t the only problem, of course. This could be used for something as simple as a complete flat spread if there was no demand or no available inventory at any level. It could be used to make sure everyone gets roughly the same amount of inventory.

Optimal Sourcing

QAD

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If at any point during the lifespan of that product and at any inventory level, the item’s temperature varies from the required set-point or beyond the defined time constraint, quality suffers and the product no longer functions as it was meant to, or in the worst case puts patients at risk. The Battle for Air Cargo Capacity.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

In the past, supply chain professionals are trained to handle the service issues through a planning of inventory , service level and after-sales operations. Of course, they stumbled and fell and learn from mistakes. Vendors can access the Zappos''s inventory level online and may ask buyers to buy more or suggest style changes.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Kinaxis

JUNE 22, 2016

The CEO of the company behind the test (Hyperloop One) estimates that the system will be transporting cargo by 2019 and passengers by 2021. They might allow companies to carry less inventory – perhaps using Hyperloop to rapidly source whatever parts or raw materials that can’t be 3D printed.

Supply Chain Software

Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And surprisingly, stolen cargo has been added to this list of beverage supply chain challenges. Of course, getting the right product to the right customer is the priority and the challenge, but to remain competitive, the beverage industry must embrace digital solutions that simplify decision-making and improve both profit and productivity.

Beverage

DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 14, 2016

From the presentations, it was clear that the investment in IoT hardware, from raw material tags, inventory tags, to equipment sensors – is increasing. Besides those cases, there were of course the ubiquitous examples of autonomous transport vehicles. What I got, was quite interesting, but not yet the IoT breakthroughs that I expected.

Internet of things