Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

Breaking Down Business Silos Supply chains don’t exist in isolation. To truly build resilience across the entire organization — including supply chain and logistics — businesses need to remove the internal silos that can lead to restricted data flow and collaboration. It all starts with adaptability.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

SCB Feature Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain? Image: iStock/JuSun June 18, 2025 Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed,” wrote William Gibson in his 1984 novel Neuromancer. That’s because supply chain itself is huge, Koganti argued.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

The Celanese Supply Chain Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a global chemical and specialty materials company with revenues of over $10 billion. The chemical industry has a complex supply chain. Industrial data is voluminous. The company has 55 manufacturing sites across the world.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2025

This posting is the third installment in our ongoing supply chain technology market education series. In Part One of the series , Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle in efforts to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in the software design and why.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

In a major advancement for global supply chain technology, project44 has launched Movement, a comprehensive Decision Intelligence Platform that transforms how businesses manage their supply chains.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

To keep operations and supply chains stable amid the volatility of today’s global trade dynamics, companies need a freight strategy that can flex under pressure. Multimodal in Practice At a basic level, multimodal shipping can refer to using two or more distinct modes — such as truck, rail, air or ocean — in a single supply chain.

Freight

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain The science of forensic chemistry, familiar to millions of viewers of crime dramas on TV and film, is playing a key role today in tracing the source of products all the way back to their origin. Uygur people waiting for buyers for their harvest of cotton. Photo: iStock.com/Gujiang xie July 28, 2025 Robert J.

Manufacturing Procurement

Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home No More Black Swans: The Age of Supply Chain Uncertainty Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses. Everything should be expected and planned for.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Many of the world’s largest companies have committed to reaching net zero by 2050, triggering a ripple effect throughout global supply chains. For most CPG brands, indirect emissions — those that occur across the supply chain — represent the majority of their carbon footprint. Retailers are following suit. In the U.S.,

Rail Software

QAD

JULY 23, 2025

AI in Supply Chain: Transformative Technologies and Strategies Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the supply chain landscape, offering powerful tools to help streamline operations, boost resilience, and increase visibility across every link in the chain. What is AI in Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

For supply chains, AI offers new paradigms and approaches, delivering streamlined processes and results that are unprecedented. AI is about more than fixing problems — its fundamentally changing how supply chains operate. The system is now helping to plan and manage the supply chain strategically and collaboratively.

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Arena Solutions

JUNE 24, 2025

The Arena SCI offering continuously checks for emerging risks from evolving supply chain conditions and eliminates the need for disconnected supply chain tools by embedding real-time, AI-driven component monitoring and risk mitigation insight directly into product development workflows.

Supply Chain Design Software

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle.

Optimal Sourcing

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle.

Optimal Sourcing

ivalua

JULY 21, 2025

Key Takeaways Modern procurement systems streamline the entire Source-to-Pay lifecycle by integrating sourcing, contracting, purchasing, and supplier management into a single platform, enabling better visibility, compliance, and control across the enterprise.

Procurement Solutions

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

This blog offers a clear, practical overview of what spend analysis is, how it supports strategic sourcing, and why it matters for both direct and indirect procurement. When done right, spend analysis enables cost savings, supplier optimization, risk reduction, and more strategic sourcing decisions.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 15, 2025

Oil and gas production is more than just an energy source—it is the backbone of modern industrial progress and global trade. In today’s competitive market, every drop of efficiency in extraction and logistics fuels innovation across supply chains, ensuring that products reach consumers faster and at lower costs.

Sourcing Strategies

IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

How Do IT Supply Chain Attacks Actually Happen? - How Do IT Supply Chain Attacks Actually Happen? By Richard Pearson (pictured) Content Writer 49 Views IT supply chain attacks are no longer rare. What Is an IT Supply Chain Attack? Why Attack the Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Design Software

ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CAGR , the global supply chain management software market is expected to touch USD 50 billion by 2032. This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Without experienced managers in place, truck availability drops, repairs are delayed, and cost control becomes difficult. Still, it can be just as disruptive to supply chain performance. What Happens When Fleet Leadership Is Unstable Losing a fleet manager isn’t just an HR issue. On day one. And when they struggle?

Negotiating Skills

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

AI can, and should, alleviate some responsibilities from jobs throughout the supply chain. Manufacturing companies, for example, need AI to highlight insights from infinite data sources. While we cant say this fear is completely unfounded, data cleanliness is not an insurmountable obstacle.

Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 15, 2025

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology providers. This start-ups technology is based on the open-source database PostgreSQL.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration for Agility Your world is characterized by dynamic market conditions, shifting customer demands, new technologies, rapidly changing regulations, and frequent supply chain disruptions. Decision-makers must plan supply chain resilience strategies for a wide range of risk scenarios.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

Twenty twenty-five is starkly different: the next global war has already begun, and it’s unfolding not on distant battlefields, but right through the supply chains that you rely on. Your supply chain is already directly in the line of fire. Trade Representative.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

The program was made possible by funding from DHL Supply Chain. Each activity also includes a Future Focus section, helping girls connect what they’re learning to real-world careers, and opening their eyes to exciting possibilities in supply chain, logistics, engineering and tech.

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

The challenge is compounded by the comparatively slow digital transformation in the supply chain and distribution sector, with many organizations remaining dependent on pricing systems that are either fully or partially manual. As the speed of trade policy changes continues to escalate, spreadsheets simply cannot keep up.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Successfully navigating this environment requires not just operational discipline, but also agility, strong local partnerships and resilient supply chain design. With a two-player market, ocean rates are less flexible, requiring shippers to find other ways in their supply chain to negotiate lower costs.

Hawaii

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

If we put that into a business context and start asking generative AI or agentic AI to make a major decision about how to reorient our supply chain, that is incredibly risky," says Wood. Additionally, AI requires both structured and unstructured data to drive operations. can test generative AI via small projects.

Optimal Sourcing

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. And they can identify alternative sources in the event of a disruption in the primary supply line, whatever the cause. Enter the concept of the “microfactory.”

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 8, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides initial highlights of the annual Kinaxis customer conference held last week. Supply chain orchestration software provider Kinaxis held its annual kinexions customer conference last week in Austin Texas with this Editor in attendance.

Conference

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

Zebra Navigating the Future of Demand Forecasting More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

Data privacy and employee resistance are two running-with-scissors risks. What can supply chain leaders do to mitigate these risks? AI chatbots are beneficial, but they have room for improvement, so supply chain executives should understand the pros and cons and deploy them with caution. Customers Like AI.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 14, 2025

In the dynamic world of MedTech, supply chain management is a critical component that directly impacts patient care and organizational efficiency. on March 24 26 brought together industry leaders to delve into the challenges and opportunities that define today’s life sciences supply chains.

Supply Chain Planning Software

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Warehouse Management Systems A WMS is the control center for modern warehouse operations. It automates key processes and centralizes data management for receiving, shipping, storage, picking, and packing. Automating data collection with mobile devices in your warehouse is a key component of what a WMS can do for business.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

So argues Greg Petro, CEO of First Insight , a retail platform that uses AI analysis of consumer feedback to predict demand, determine pricing thresholds and model scenarios around, for example, differing tariff levels or supply chain bottlenecks. Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain?

Price Reduction

QAD

MAY 1, 2025

In todays complex and often volatile global environment, procurement leaders face mounting pressure to cut sourcing costs while navigating geopolitical instability, inflation, tariffs and talent shortages. The truth is, sourcing smarter isnt just about softwareits about strategy, support, and best practices.

Sourcing Strategies