Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

Today, Oritain claims to cover more than 96% of the world’s cotton-growing areas with its tracing tools. Traceability has to run through every stage of a global supply chain, which can be frustratingly opaque, given the number of players and transformations that a given product undergoes. Manufacturers want to make sure.”

Manufacturing Procurement

Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. 🙏 Retailers Tractor Supply Q1 ending March 29. Reported April 24 Over 60% of our business is from products that are manufactured, bagged, assembled or grown in the United States and only 12% of our business is direct imports.

Manufacturing Procurement

QAD

APRIL 9, 2025

Can You Prevent Supply Chain Disruptions in Life Sciences? Supply chain disruptions in the life sciences industry can have serious consequences. While its impossible to eliminate all risks, companies and the industry at large can take proactive steps to minimize disruptions and improve supply chain resilience.

Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with December 2024, Q4-2024 , and year-end global supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI reporting. Morgan and S&P Global Market Intelligence reported a continuation of contractionary activity levels in the final month of 2024.

Manufacturing Procurement

Exiger Perspectives

JUNE 11, 2025

Why Supply Chain Visibility is Critical Hope King, Axios Events Host & Moderator I do want to start big picture because Exiger’s AI is built to provide transparency into supply chains. We’re completely fragile to the supply chains that support us. You need to be able to map those supply chains.

Pharmaceutical

Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

According to a FICCI survey, 83% of manufacturers reported higher or stable production levels in Q3 FY 2024-25, with 42% planning investments in the next six months. China is expected to overtake Taiwan as the world’s biggest manufacturer of chips in 2030 with 22% of the market. Other challenges abound.

Manufacturing Procurement

QAD

MAY 20, 2025

Notably, China and the European Union will see extra tariffs, unless negotiated otherwise. Germany has previously and firmly stated it “will not give in” to the tariff hikes, while China has accused the U.S. The US, the EU and China are the worlds largest economies by GDP. None of these are easy options.

Global

Exiger Perspectives

MAY 29, 2025

Exiger AI Illuminates Your Supply Chain, Foresees Disruptions, and Strengthens Resilience As an original and proud sponsor of the AI+ Expo and the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), Exiger is an AI platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, 65 federal agencies, and the defense industrial base.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 11, 2025

Introduction Global trade has entered a new era of volatility, with tariffs and trade restrictions already proving to be powerful tools of economic policy. Supply chain and procurement leaders must now navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment, balancing cost efficiency with risk mitigation.

Supply Chain Design Software

E2open

MAY 25, 2025

(NYSE: ETWO) (“E2open” or the “Company”), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with a leading multi-enterprise network, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by WiseTech Global Limited (ASX: WTC) (“WiseTech”), a leading provider of logistics execution software solutions.

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EFT

JUNE 5, 2025

Electrification continues to make rapid inroads into trucking, as the International Energy Agency (IEA) recorded an 80% growth in sales in 2024 , led by China and making it the third consecutive year of expanding sales after poor market performance from 2018 to 2021.

Purchasing Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

I got a pitch from the PR firm representing Everstream Analytics that was different. Everstream Analytics is sitting on a vast trove of risk data. The company applies AI and other analytics to this data to provide supply chain risk analytics and insights to its clients. Each event is assigned a risk score.

Pharmaceutical

Cathy Roberson

JUNE 9, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2025

Supply Chain Matters highlights for industry supply chain leaders, strategists, and planners that the latest reporting relative to economic and supply chain wide activity levels points to demand and supply alignment challenges in the weeks to come. Imports to the U.S. reportedly slid to $61.6

Supply and Demand

Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2025

The MHI staff observes, “As 2025 begins, a mix of opportunities and uncertainty is driving supply chain professionals as they seek to gain a deeper understanding of how the year will play out. How will automation and AI impact supply chains? Supply Chain Trends Disruption is the norm.

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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?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog shares excerpts of select individual predictions that will be included in our annual 2025 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. billion in funds.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

We always start with a check on the US and global economy, as that has such an impact in the end on supply chain practice. One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. Gilmore Says. What do you say? growth for all 2025, 2.8%

Supply Chain Design Software

EFT

JULY 22, 2025

China's exports of rare earth magnets to the US surge in June China's exports of rare earth magnets to the United States in June soared to more than seven times their May level, marking a sharp recovery in the flow of critical minerals used in electric vehicles and wind turbines after a Sino-U.S. trade deal. trade deal.

Manufacturing Procurement

Shapiro

JANUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, they shine a bright spotlight on the e-commerce industry–which is particularly vulnerable to imports from China claiming that exemption. To manage the increased volume of low-value shipments, CBP is looking into improving technology and automation within the customs clearance process. regulations.

Resource Reduction

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.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Aronow observes that many supply chain organizations are perpetually chasing their commercial partners to engage and improve the demand forecast. Aronow says to start by investing in organizational storytelling skills. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this weeks published index data that reinforces that North America based manufacturers have initiated unseasonal forward loading on inventories. Background In a prior Supply Chain Matters posting in late November, we highlighted U.S. There is now added evidence of such actions.

Manufacturing Procurement

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.

Gartner

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.” What do you say?

Supply Chain Design Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2025

Meanwhile, supply chain and logistics news continue to unfold. egg supply chain. Now Let’s Get Into The Top Supply Chain & Logistics News for the Week! Its three powerful assets offer: A comprehensive network for real-time supply chain data, which tracks over 3.2

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QAD

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Geopolitics, regulatory frameworks, and technological advancements have often influenced the automotive industry. Each of these policy shifts carries substantial implications for automakers, suppliers, and investors, reshaping competitive dynamics, cost structures, and long-term strategic planning. Currently, the U.S. imposes a 2.5%

Automotive

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

From electronics manufacturers to retail giants, companies are grappling with a complex landscape of rising duties and other supply chain challenges. the Trump administration has imposed duties as high as 25% on imports from China, targeting such sectors as electronics, steel, textiles and semiconductors. In the U.S.,

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 6, 2025

Driven by purchases of machinery from the U.S. With Asian supply chains under pressure and tensions rising between the U.S and China, many companies are looking to find new regions to sell products to. Its not just a local rebound. Argentina’s geography has traditionally been a logistical hurdle.

Argentina

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. What do you say?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. The differences continue: In my rough estimate labor productivity in the second facility is about twice that of the first even with less automation. That’s respect for people.” What do you say?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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. The final pillar of defense against cargo theft involves collaboration with trusted partners to track threats and report incidents – which often doesn’t happen even in today’s environment. See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) These tech-driven schemes are harder to detect — and far more costly.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Drewry notes that for a spot-rate shipper exporting or importing on the East-West routes will find that, on average, a container shipment’s cost can vary by about $1,400. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. That price would represent about a 23% premium to Norfolk Southern’s stock before the first reports of a potential deal this month. Bloomberg News reported previously that a transaction could be announced as soon as this week. Norfolk Southern is set to report second-quarter earnings July 29.

Supply Chain Design Software

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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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Exigers illumination of the HVPT supply chain uncoveredfour key threats: Cybersecurity vulnerabilities Transformers rely onlogic-bearing componentssourced fromChina and Hong Kong, exposing the grid to potentialmalware, tampering, and remote shutdowns. Geopolitical instability The U.S. Material shortages The U.S.

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