The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 23, 2025

Based in Chicago, his expertise covers a wide range of operations topics, with an emphasis on end-to-end supply chains and their redesign for four critical purposes, growth, cost, resilience, and sustainability.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 27, 2025

Why Are Supply Chain Cyberattacks on the Rise? By Zac Amos (pictured) Features Editor at ReHack 86 Views Supply chain cyberattacks have become one of the most significant cybersecurity problems, changing how organizations worldwide face cyber threats.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 4, 2025

Tyler is CEO of Express Logistics Group, a T-Rex Prestige Worldwide company, based out of Cincinnati and Chicago. About Tyler Hildebrand Tyler Hildebrand is CEO of Express Logistics Group, a T-Rex Prestige Worldwide company, based out of Cincinnati and Chicago.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

DALLAS, May 20th, 2025 – Ship OGRE (OGRE), a pioneering force in brokerage and logistics technology, is proud to announce the successful acquisition, transformation, and tech-acceleration of Amino Transport, Inc. Amino), a large Texas-based third-party logistics provider. It is what we do.” to 5 times,” Queen reiterates. “Our

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 20, 2025

I think MHI has done a good job of adding support for WERC but leaving it mostly alone, maintaining its Chicago headquarters (MHI is in Charlotte), and keeping WERC CEO Mike Mikitka on board to run the organization. That of course leads many companies to invest in expensive automation using advanced hardware and/or software.

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. In early 2024, for example, Delta Airlines partnered with the technology platform SmartKargo to launch a 2-day and 3-5 delivery service solution, DeliverDirect. ViaEurope is a logistics tech services provider specializing in end-to-end cross-border e-commerce solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Enterprise IT is on the cusp of a transformation the likes of which we havent seen since the transition to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In fact, Id argue this transition to what is increasingly being dubbed Service-as-Software has more profound implications for industries and workforces than anything thats come before.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The unfortunate truth in all of this is that the supply chain industry has historically underinvested in cyber security. Supply chain disruptions will remain a fact of life. VC funding is flowing back into startups, and investments in supply chain companies and tech represent an estimated 15%-20% of that funding.

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Content Marketing Manager For those in the manufacturing, supply chain, and warehouse automation industries, ProMat is the tradeshow that sets the tone for the future. Locus Robotics improves warehouse automation with LocusONE , our powerful AI-driven platform that delivers scalable, end-to-end automation solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

But, when we shared the heatmap visualization of the tool, which highlights key operations data using an easily digestible color map, suddenly the prospects were very engaged and asked numerous questions about how Dynamic Slotting could impact their business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2025

Here’s your supply chain & logistics news for the week. Some key developments in supply chain and logistics include Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ successful integration of a human-centric digital strategy, leveraging technologies like Continuous Manufacturing and MES to boost agility and workforce adoption.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 28, 2025

The economic toll of cargo theft alone is estimated at $15–$35 billion annually, disrupting supply chains and inflating costs for businesses and consumers. Colorado’s growing logistics activity and lack of truck stop monitoring enabled this felony theft, likely an inside job exploiting shipment data.

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EFT

JUNE 23, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists China's rare earth magnet shipments halve in May due to export curbs China's overseas shipments of rare earth magnets halved in May from April, tumbling to their lowest levels in more than five years due to export curbs. demand for illegal e-cigarettes.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. Supply Chain Digest Says. Gartner says that, with the exception of high-performing organizations, 40% of logistics leaders cite the struggle to realize value from existing technology investments What do you say?

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2025

In this special edition of our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column, we highlight two noteworthy investments. One is a rather significant acquisition announcement that has the potential to change the global transportation and logistics landscape. based technology providers.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supply chain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. Below are some highlights from the Gartner blog post. This shift was accompanied by a change in tone.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supply chains list. That famous ranking used to be released at a dinner the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May (now called the Supply Chain Symposium), but this year it was again released in a webinar a few weeks after the conference. Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

Company warehouses buzz with metallic arms plucking items from shelves and wheeled droids that motor around the floors ferrying the goods for packaging,” the article this week says, adding that “In other corners, automated systems help sort the items, which other robots assist in packaging for shipment.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

The on-going conflict creates risks to critical raw materials and the continued flow of finished goods, Garter says, requiring supply chains to conduct cost-benefit analyses of mitigation actions in partnership with finance leaders. Supply Chain Digest Says. Prepare CFOs for continued supply chain cost volatility 3.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

What I failed to do in any of those three columns was mention what in some ways may have been the biggest to news items: the retirements of sorts of Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich and groundbreaking, inaugural Gartner analyst, and famous inventor of the Three V’s of Supply Chain, Art Mesher.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

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. See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.)

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Good advice from Drewry.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

Click here to send us your comments January New that supply chain software provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. The disgraced executive was eventually convicted of wire and securities fraud in 2022 for misleading investors about Nikola’s operations and zero-emissions technology. What do you say?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2025

The global trade, logistics, and maritime sectors are witnessing significant shifts driven by AI, sustainability initiatives, and evolving economic policies. tariffs, and UPS is implementing new surcharges and processing fees, further impacting supply chains. operations across maritime, warehousing, and air cargo.

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Freight Center

JUNE 18, 2025

This elevated guideway adds to Laredo’s already robust border infrastructure—it becomes the fourth presidentially permitted crossing in the area—and is expected to benefit regional communities by diverting truck traffic away from city streets, cutting emissions, and enhancing cross-border security and logistics efficiency.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

This week we review the performance of supply chain stocks, and next week we will provide our popular take on the 1H 2025 in numbers and charts On to the stocks, I am ending my numbers with the closing bell on July 3. In early 2021, SCDigest re-launched this weekly supply chain and logistics stock market index.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

of GDP The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. Again this year, Penske Logistics funded the report development. trillion, up from $2.44

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. month-over-month.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls. Supply Chain Digest Says. The company had to re-apply the labels in distribution, at enormous costs. This can be a pleasant experience (it is most of the time) or controversial.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Any F eedback on our Supply Chain Graphic of the Week? Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.

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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.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

In recent years, Klappich has turned some his attention to research on warehouse automation generally and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) specifically, where he has carved out a similar thought leadership position. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

Unifor has said its bargaining priorities with DHL revolve around wages, working conditions and surveillance and automation in the workplace. DHL continued operations for the first dozen days of the work stoppage, but began to suspend operations as the legislation loomed. DHL’s customers in Canada include Lululemon, Shein and Siemens.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. a little up from 48.5

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Writing on the research firm’s blog post, Ash Sharma, Chief Commercial Officer & VP of Research - Robotics & Warehouse Automation for Interact says that “The mobile robot industry, previously marked by rapid expansion and investment, is now undergoing a period of challenges and readjustment.” year-over-year out to 2030.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

CEO Jim Farley told Bloomberg last week that supplies remain “day-to-day” despite apparent progress in U.S. The company briefly shut down a factory in Chicago for a week last month due to a shortage of the materials. trade negotiations with China. trade negotiations with China. trade negotiations with China. Ford Motor Co.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Time to Start Preparing for the Digital Product Passport Supply Chain Visibility Starmer, Carney Reboot U.K.-Canada CP has recorded annual losses in each year dating back to 2018, and was on pace to completely deplete its cash reserves by Q2 of 2025 before the federal government stepped in with a $1 billion lifeline in January.

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