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Is Your Supply Chain Recession Proof? A Guide for Building a Resilient Supply Chain

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Businesses may struggle to balance inventory, increasing the likelihood of either overstocking, tying up valuable capital and incurring storage costs, or understocking. Even the failure of a seemingly minor, geographically remote supplier can have substantial consequences if they provide a critical component used by multiple manufacturers.

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Navigating Maritime Chokepoints to Improve Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The Suez Canal, for example, is crucial for energy and cargo shipments moving between Asia and Europe. Longer voyages also lead to higher inventory-carrying costs, can lead to increased use of more costly modes of transportation, and can increase demurrage. Avoiding this Canal means going around the Cape of Good Hope.

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How AI Is Turning Inventory Data Into a Strategic Advantage

Supply Chain Brain

For many, this will be compounded by the risk of a recession, sharpening the consequences of excess inventory, stockouts or misallocations. In a world where tariff and shipping uncertainty can compress margins and flexibility overnight, the companies that can trust their inventory data and make fast, confident decisions will survive.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 26, 2025

Supply Chain Digest

Construction is soft, manufacturing is up and down, and consumers are cautious.” CDC/TradeBeam Cognizant Techn Compliance Netw Cornerstone Sol DiCentral Dow Jones E2Open EnVista Epicor Hempstead Consu IBM/ILOG IHS iSuppli Infor Infosys Inside ERP INSIGHT, Inc.

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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 6, 2025

Supply Chain Digest

In fact, several traditional and electric-vehicle makers—and their suppliers—are considering shifting some auto-parts manufacturing to China to avoid looming factory shutdowns, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Coast Guard evacuated all 22 crew members, transferring them to a nearby merchant ship.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

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. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.