Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

By enabling seamless communication, automating tasks, and providing predictive insights, generative AI can significantly increase the accuracy of estimated times of arrival, and overall performance across the logistics supply chain. A Case Study A global automotive manufacturer adopted sophisticated AI technology for spare-parts distribution.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

Successful data monetization initiatives are based on participating in secure cloud-based data-sharing ecosystems with other retail, supplier and vendor partners to market permissioned access or trend and inventory insights (with proper privacy protections, of course). s national weather service.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

Data analysis is important, of course, but you need to go see for yourself,” Senn says. Who can you call who’s undergoing expansions or doing multi-site rollouts?” While data and modeling are useful tools for visualizing impact, nothing beats observing a live environment. Featured Product Popular Stories U.K.

Supply Chain Design 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

Each tier, from raw-material providers to logistics firms, relies on predictable, timely cash flow. Imagine a supplier whose customer’s DBT climbs from 12 to 57 over the course of just three months. Late payments are the silent disruptor that’s eroding trust, liquidity and operational continuity across the supply chain.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 21, 2025

Logistics at Risk! The charterer can decide the type of cargo, loading, and unloading points, and other specifics of the voyage, making it a tailored solution for maritime transport needs. Minimized Waste: With only the necessary cargo on board, wastage can be minimized. Charter, Outsource, or Vertically Integrate?

Sourcing Strategies

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. Logistics coordinators will need to reroute deliveries. This is where audio translation technology is a game-changer.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Stord

MAY 29, 2025

China trade tensions force shippers, carriers, brokers, and brands to reassess logistics strategies. Even as brands sprint to determine the best course action, the future of tariffs and trade remains murky. ports can halt cargo for days or weeks. The global supply chain stands at another critical juncture as U.S.-China

Cost Reduction Strategies

Shapiro

JULY 15, 2025

While the threat is serious, it’s also uncertain—especially given Trump’s habit of reversing course on tariffs when political or economic pressure builds. Trump has a long track record of threatening tariffs and then reversing course. For shippers, importers, and logistics providers, the key is informed, proactive action.

United Arab Emirates

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 3, 2025

Real-time data provides critical supply chain visibility, enabling retailers to optimize inventory, streamline logistics and enhance supplier collaboration. Minimize inefficiencies in logistics, renegotiate supplier contracts and consider alternative sourcing options. Catering to price-sensitive customers.

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.

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Freight Waves

JULY 15, 2025

WASHINGTON — Legislation created to address the cargo theft crisis across the U.S. The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025 , introduced in both the House and Senate in April, would set up a coordinated multiagency federal response to organized cargo and retail theft and make it easier to prosecute the crime groups responsible.

Cargo

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 25, 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.

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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. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. What do you say?

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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. Najma logistics, threelineshipping Posted on: Aug, 23 2017 Very informational article. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce.

South Africa

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. Tariff and Deportation Policies on Collision Course in Agribusiness Global Trade & Economics How Reverse Logistics Is Reshaping Retail’s Future Reverse Logistics Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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. Most likely: Somewhere in Between Labor Strikes Though of course not a certainty, incoming President Trumps explicit support for the ILA, may make a strike or at least a prolonged one less likely than before this announcement.

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

Freightos

MAY 27, 2025

Home Your Air Cargo Munich and Transport Logistics 2025 Survival Kit Four hectic days, one very large venueheres how to make every meeting count. Weve spoken to 7 logistics pros who have collectively attended over 30 Transport Logistics to get their tips on how to nail the conference. Read to dive in?

Cargo

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. 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

Cost Reduction Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2024

Anti-narcotics investigators have uncovered substantial amounts of the disguised drugs in the past two years as smugglers go to ever-more elaborate lengths to get illicit cargoes on board ships. It will be interesting to see how these smugglers will change course when fossil fuels are completely replaced by renewables.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freightos

APRIL 6, 2020

And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand. Meanwhile, massive passenger airline restrictions dramatically reduced air cargo capacity, sending rates through the roof. And, through it all, logistics providers keep critical goods moving. Get Free Daily Access to FBX. About WebCargo Sky. LEARN MORE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Secretary of Transportation, told CNBC on Friday morning that what the government is watching for over the course of the day, as the issue has been identified, is “the kind of ripple or cascade effects as they get everything back in their networks back to normal.” Pete Buttigieg, U.S.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

GlobalTranz

APRIL 30, 2015

Specifically, in the transportation and logistics industry it can be very beneficial to visit your carriers in person. Top carriers will have dedicated classroom space, a well thought-out training course, and experienced instructors. In addition to securing cargo, also evaluate how well your carrier’s equipment is being maintained.

Risk Management

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Cargo ships avoiding Houthi attacks in the Red Sea face a different kind of delay-causing threat as they go around the southern tip of Africa: storms and 30-foot swells. Vessels are expected to seek shelter/alter their course to avoid the impacted areas,” Maersk, the world’s No.

Material Savings

Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Typically, 45% to 50% of cargo is carried in belly holds of aircraft. With such dramatic reductions in flights, Singapore’s status of a logistics hub was put severely at risk. It is currently operating in 12 facilities across the island, with possibly the largest contract logistics footprint in Singapore.

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Freightos

APRIL 12, 2016

We’re huge fans of innovation in the logistics space. Which is why we’re taking our hats off to SpaceX for delivering 7,000 lbs of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) this week using a reusable rocket – the Falcon 9. Spacex’s cargo ship ‘Dragon’ Space Delivery As Science Fiction.

Cargo

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. And now on to this week’s logistics news. By acquiring GroundCloud, which was officially known as Windigo Logistics Inc.,

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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. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Now, furniture makers are seeing a logistics bottleneck create more problems as they try to keep up with demand. That’s all for this week.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

Of course, fuel shortages can cause factory production delays that can subsequently hinder downstream production processes. However, I did see reports on the destruction of Ukraine’s Antonov An-225, the world’s largest cargo aircraft. The post Supply Chain Impacts from Russia-Ukraine Conflict appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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