Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Image: iStock/koto_feja July 9, 2025 Sponsored by DELMIA No other technology in recent history has received as much attention as artificial intelligence. There are a lot of different aspects beneath that simple understanding,” Indeed, businesses are adopting AI technology at a rapid pace. SPECIAL REPORT AI: Real or Hype?

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Still, it can be just as disruptive to supply chain performance. Fleet management is a long game — budget cycles, replacement planning, technology roadmaps. Without experienced managers in place, truck availability drops, repairs are delayed, and cost control becomes difficult. Disruptions in decision-making.

Negotiating Skills

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. In short: Instead of sweating the cost of expansion, consider automation that helps you sweat your existing assets more effectively.

Vendor Strategies

SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

In the hyper-connected global economy of the present day, supply chains traverse continents, cultures, and myriad communication barriers. This is where audio translation technology is a game-changer. Audio translation technology offers a solution by interpreting spoken directions and dialogues in several languages in real time.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Late payments are the silent disruptor that’s eroding trust, liquidity and operational continuity across the supply chain. Supply chains don’t operate in silos. Research from Creditsafe’s Cost of Late Payments report found nearly 86% of businesses saying that up to 30% of their monthly invoiced sales are overdue.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Freight Waves

JUNE 13, 2025

Recent tariffs and trade investigations exacerbate existing tensions, complicating the global supply chain and challenging the shipping sector’s adaptability. The ICS findings reveal a precarious balance between the allure of tried-and-tested fuel options and the promise of innovative green technologies.

Survey

Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Supply Chain Issues: The materials needed for batteries (lithium, cobalt, etc.) are in high demand, and the technology for acquiring them cleanly is not yet there. Unfortunately, batteries for electric trucks can weigh several tons , which means a tricky trade-off between travel range and maximum cargo capacity.

Freight

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

With international trade tensions, fluctuating tariffs and supply chain uncertainty, the use of new data-driven technologies like artificial intelligence can increase transaction execution speed. And for large enterprises, even small efficiency improvements can quickly translate to millions in savings or additional revenue.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 21, 2025

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. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on July 27, 2023.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 25, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing

Stord

MAY 29, 2025

The global supply chain stands at another critical juncture as U.S.-China 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. Whether youre shipping FOB or Ex Works, Stord manages your cargo all the way to a U.S.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Supply Chain Digest Says. NMFTA says the new “Cybersecurity Cargo Crime Reduction Framework” is an actionable guide for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers and brokers that It outlines key steps parties can take to reduce cargo theft risk.

Cargo

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain How is the second Trump Administration enforcing laws against forced labor in global supply chains? When it comes to fighting forced labor, the government has a lot of tools at its command. Photo: iStock/Niran_pr July 25, 2025 Robert J. So what approach is U.S. Podcast | Busted!

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. 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.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Click here to send us your comments That according to Rob Mortimer, CEO of Fuelre4m, a Dubai-based firm that uses fuel technology to cut emissions, writing this week on the web site of the Maritime Executive “That’s not a long-term projection. Not technologically. So why isn’t there a stampede for this technology?

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. 2024 – A(nother) volatile year for supply chains The Red Sea crisis started at the end of 2023 and continued throughout 2024 impacting operations, freight rates and seasonal demand.

Scenario Planning

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. 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.

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.” Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Kinaxis

APRIL 26, 2017

When it comes to supply chain excellence, particularly in the retail sector, there is one behemoth dominating the landscape: Amazon. Amazon supply chain management is driving innovation and change at a pace that’s putting the pressure on other businesses to find a way to keep up, or fold.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Supply Chains in Crisis Food & Beverage Related Articles China Investigates U.S. Supply Chain Visibility Climate Crisis Has Caused Food Price Spikes Global Supply Chain Management U.S.

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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. Scan the programme early Four forum stages (A1, A2, A3, B1) plus an Exhibitor Stage host topics like Global Supply Chains 2030, Digital Platforms for Road Freight and Ports of the Future.

Cargo

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. Supply chain optimization has also improved in significant ways that can address these trade-offs better than before.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. 2016 Supply Chain Trends: The First 7 of 12. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Supply Chain Design Software

Kinaxis

JUNE 22, 2016

by Melissa Clow This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting , a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management. We’re always trying to stay on top of Supply Chain developments at Argentus. So it doesn’t hurt to see what’s on the horizon. Enter Hyperloop. 1126km / h).

Supply Chain Software

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

The Future Of The Supply Chain Starts With Sustainability. To say the last two years have been difficult for the supply chain industry is a significant understatement. The Importance of Supply Chain Sustainability for 2022 and Beyond. This is a global issue, of course, but if we just take the U.S.

Sustainability

Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Oil prices tanked, cancellations increased and Maersk drilling and supply chain services would run up nearly $2 billion dollars in annual losses. The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. Today, 75 to 80% of cargo arrives on time. Driving the Maersk Shift.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Surely all the technology and guardrails should prevent this type of disaster. But, of course, when dealing with systems that operate at such scale, exceptions happen. Supply chains work on a mind-boggling scale, making it easy to focus on the exceptions instead of the wins. It’s not just supply chains.

Freight

GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

If AI Technologies Can Think & Act Like "Us" Where do "We" Go? The application of AI technologies has created the ability to understand, store and use product information in an entirely new way. AI technologies have become one of the defining facets of high tech. AI is a controversy of deep, lasting dimensions.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

GlobalTranz

APRIL 30, 2015

” In the process of business procurement and especially in the supply chain, supplier risk management is a skill set that needs focus day in and day out. Top carriers will have dedicated classroom space, a well thought-out training course, and experienced instructors. Properly Stored & Inspected Equipment.

Risk Management

Freightos

APRIL 6, 2020

Whether by air, land, or ocean, supply chains over the last few months paint a picture of rapid fluctuations. And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand. And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand. In 2019, digital freight isn’t a vision; it’s a reality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. Take full advantage of modern technology. It’s all about plowing through the next wave.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Freightos

APRIL 12, 2016

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. Well SpaceX may well have, if that unusual cargo had been in transit for more than the scheduled two days. A Space cargo ship sounds like science fiction.

Cargo

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Typically, 45% to 50% of cargo is carried in belly holds of aircraft. On October 29th, the company has also been featured in Channel News Asia’s docuseries “Becoming a Global Hub”, underscoring the key role that Schenker plays in Singapore’s standing as a vital node in the global supply chain. Keeping Supply Chains Moving.

Singapore

Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2016

Technology and Culture. Technology and receptivity to technology don’t always move in lockstep. Technology has never been more critical for logistics than now. DHL seeded its empire by moving ocean documentation faster than cargo ships. Technology is, in many cases, no longer an obstacle to logistics automation.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. export regulations led to supply chain disruptions. technology from helping China’s military. technology from helping China’s military. United Airlines – the largest of the three in terms of cargo volumes – registered a 31.1

Cost Reduction Strategies

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. aims to block from obtaining American high technology. Now that the SU military has retrieved the wreckage, new details are emerging.

Logistics Network Optimization Software