Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2025

In other words, it’s challenging for companies to create resilient, agile and cost-effective supply chains when so many things are so uncertain. It demands a deep dive into complex calculations and multi-faceted considerations that impact everything from sourcing and production strategies to long-term investment and risk management.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 26, 2025

(Infographic) Shipping containers have left a mark on the supply chain industry and beyond. What may seem like simple steel boxes have transformed the international trade landscape, reshaping supply chains, economies, and even urban development. However, it did not gain traction until the mid-20th century.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

Between market volatility, rapid advances in automation and rising customer expectations, transportation leaders are being forced to rethink legacy systems and outdated ways of operating. Automation Becomes Essential If there’s one thing our industry agrees on right now, it’s that automation is no longer optional.

Supply Chain Planning Software

IT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2025

Vehicle Access Resilience in Time-Critical Supply Chains By Mike Bronson (pictured) Content Writer 91 Views Every minute counts in logistics. Whether it’s lost keys, damaged transponders, or even something more sinister like relay theft, access issues quickly escalate from minor annoyance to major expense.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain In the rush to adjust sourcing strategies in line with current trends in international trade, the answer might be to think small. But for many, rising tensions between trading partners, coupled with higher labor and logistics expense, have made that strategy untenable.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

Two recently published studies identify the top disruptions that impacted industry, business and global supply chains during 2024 and our expected to be present in 2025. According to the releas e , overall disruptions to global supply chains increased 38 percent on a year-over-year basis.

Supply Chain Disruption

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

JUNE 19, 2025

The warehouse, meanwhile, has been elevated from afterthought to a central player, as new demands and responsibilities are placed on supply chains — from small-batch wave picking and reverse logistics to deeper supplier collaboration, and tariff and sustainability compliance.

Warehousing

Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For the past few years, the air cargo market has greatly benefited from international e-commerce. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), 80% of e-commerce is transported by air and makes up upwards of 30% of total air cargo volume. Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication.

Cargo

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

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2025

Supply chain management is a crucial aspect of any business, involving the coordination of production, shipment, and delivery of goods. A well-managed supply chain ensures that products reach customers efficiently and cost-effectively. Here are some key ways in which business insurance supports supply chain management: 1.

Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

AI, at its heart, is a tool to help solve problems — like a hammer, or pair of scissors. What can supply chain leaders do to mitigate these risks? Yet these same companies have the same anxieties about investing. Data privacy and employee resistance are two running-with-scissors risks. Customers Like AI.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides perspectives relative to despite having a tentative back-to-work wage negotiation, the outstanding issue of port automation provides added concerns for global industry supply chain teams. ports lag behind other global ports in automation focused on increased throughput.

Negotiating Skills

IT Supply Chain

JULY 14, 2025

The Key Advantages of Implementing Barge Pumping Solutions By Mike Bronson (pictured) Content Writer 78 Views Industrial sectors that depend on liquid cargo movement, such as oil and gas, chemical production, or maritime transport, face constant pressure to improve efficiency while keeping costs under control.

Supply Chain Design Software

Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Southern California Wildfires and Windstorm Client Alert Supply Chain Risk Alert Severe wildfires and windstorms have impacted Southern California since January 7, 2025. Exiger empowers clients to assess the impact of wildfires on their supply chain through cutting-edge visualization tools that map the geolocations of their suppliers.

California

Locus

JULY 28, 2025

Technologies such as AI-powered routing, real-time visibility, and multi-fleet orchestration are now essential for improving delivery accuracy and efficiency. Disconnected tools and static routing logic create friction that directly impacts delivery success rates and operating margins. Related reading: What is Last-Mile Delivery?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Cathy Roberson

JULY 7, 2025

Postal Service (USPS) transitioned its primary air cargo contract from FedEx to UPS effective September 30, 2024. Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. UPS “The USPS air cargo business fits beautifully with our strategy to grow our B2B business. increase from Q4 2023.

Cargo

Freight Waves

JUNE 23, 2025

Recognized as a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards, Tive has established itself as a leader in combating freight fraud through advanced supply chain visibility solutions. Without awareness of the comings and goings of your cargo, you are merely guessing—and can only fix problems after they occur.”

Real-time Visibility

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. The crux of the issue isn’t just the added expense but the unpredictability.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Cathy Roberson

APRIL 29, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. UPS’ latest earnings continued a string of quarterly earnings that has benefited mainly from ‘revenue management’, the reduction of jobs and closure of facilities to match declining volumes. But average revenue per package slipped, down 1.4%

Cost Reduction 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

Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Electric vehicles (EVs) are quickly becoming a central part of the push to reduce emissions and combat climate change. There are several key issues with scaling the production of electric freight trucks: High Production Costs: Electric trucks are currently more expensive to manufacture, primarily due to battery production costs.

Freight

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 15, 2025

Cargo vans are versatile vehicles that offer more than just transportation—they can generate a pretty decent income. In recent years, cargo van owners have benefited from many earning opportunities that have multiplied exponentially. Utilizing technology or apps can be a game-changer in streamlining operations.

Cargo

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

The company applies AI and other analytics to this data to provide supply chain risk analytics and insights to its clients. In short, what makes them different is that they can quantify and thus prioritize supply chain risks. De-dollarization is an effort by several countries to reduce the role of the U.S.

Pharmaceutical

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. Less Risk: The charterer is not responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ship, reducing their exposure to operational risks.

Sourcing Strategies

USC Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Long-haul trucking has become more expensive and less logistically viable, making intermodal transportation an increasingly attractive alternative. Since far fewer younger people are entering the trucking industry, the supply of skilled drivers is diminishing. Experts project it could carry out two rate reductions in 2025.

Expense Reduction

EFT

JUNE 5, 2025

Primarily these are an ongoing vehicle scrappage scheme , falling battery prices , 2023 regulations for higher emission standards for trucks biting and pressure from central and regional governments to reduce industry emissions. This is despite availability in the U.S. Credit Volvo Group.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

These systems, often in the form of lightweight autonomous drones with no human operator, or more expensive but higher-throughput telescoping autonomous mobile robot (AMR), draws on advances in AI "world models" to navigate cluttered, dynamic warehouse environments — something not feasible via technology even a few years ago.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

During COVID-19, if you asked technology leaders what they were glad to have had in place, they would tell you: remote working policies, strong cybersecurity, network resilience and — perhaps most importantly — a culture of teams who could act fast. Enter 2025, and we’re facing another major supply chain challenge.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

Implementing this technology for heavy-duty trucking, which moves 70% of all goods in the country and is responsible for 23% of total emissions from transport, is particularly challenging, given the requirements of energy and infrastructure. at 29% of the total. at 29% of the total. at 29% of the total. at 29% of the total.

Cost Reduction Strategies

EFT

JULY 22, 2025

Apple in $500 million rare earth magnet deal with MP to expand US supply chain Apple (AAPL.O) for rare earth magnets, mitigating supply risks after China curbed exports this year and representing a major coup for MP that sent its shares soaring by a fifth. trade deal. has signed a $500 million deal with MP Materials (MP.N)

Manufacturing Procurement

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

EFT

MAY 19, 2025

cargo have surged since the countries declared a 90-day truce on punitive tit-for-tat tariffs last weekend, operators said, spawning traffic jams at Chinese ports and factories that could take weeks to clear. China to US ocean cargo bookings surge after tariff pause, Vizion says U.S. retailers including Walmart (WMT.N)

Price Reduction

Freight Center

JUNE 18, 2025

This pioneering Green Corridors Intelligent Freight Transportation System (IFTS) will connect inland terminals near Monterrey, Mexico, and north of Laredo (I‑35 area), operating 24/7 with low-emission shuttles to streamline customs crossings and dramatically reduce border congestion and emissions—by up to 75% compared to conventional diesel trucks.

Supply Chain Design Software

EFT

JULY 7, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists Inside the airline seat industry crisis delaying jet deliveries Tucked beneath the armrest of a luxury business class seat in a factory in Wales lies a clue to a global aviation bottleneck that has left many airlines waiting impatiently for new jets.

Manufacturing Procurement

Freightos

JUNE 17, 2025

But closure of the strait would cut off access to Dubai’s Port of Jebel Ali, a major transhipment hub between the Far East and points to the west. Join 60,000+ Supply Chain Experts Who Never Miss an Issue! air cargo, China – US rates were level last week at $5.29/kg.

Israel

Freightos

JUNE 17, 2025

But closure of the strait would cut off access to Dubai’s Port of Jebel Ali, a major transhipment hub between the Far East and points to the west. Join 60,000+ Supply Chain Experts Who Never Miss an Issue! air cargo, China – US rates were level last week at $5.29/kg.

Israel