Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

From raw material sourcing to logistics and regulatory compliance, stakeholders across the value chain will need to prepare for structural adjustments. Sourcing and Ingredient Availability A central impact of this policy is the need to replace synthetic colorants with natural alternatives.

Manufacturing Procurement

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Proactively adopting cleaner energy sources ensures alignment with these evolving regulations. The industry’s dependency on traditional energy sources necessitates an urgent shift toward cleaner alternatives. Transparent sourcing practices build trust among consumers and investors.

Supply Chain Design Software

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions. Load balancing algorithms ensure efficient distribution across Amazons logistics network, preventing bottlenecks and improving delivery reliability.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Distribution Network : Amul employs a wide distribution network that includes a mix of direct sales to retailers, wholesalers, and through its own branded outlets. Milk Processing : After collection, milk is transported to regional processing plants, where it is pasteurized and packaged.

Optimal Sourcing

Logility

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Download Now AI Solutions for Complex Demand Planning For supply chain professionals, managing demand involves analyzing multiple signals from diverse sources. Customer behavior: Real-time insights into customer orders, inventory levels, and distribution channels clarify short-term demand.

Supply and Demand

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Reducing cost was the primary objective, and most operational decisionsfrom sourcing to fulfillmentreflected that mindset. Centralized distribution strategies may be efficient under normal conditions, but they often leave little room to reroute when disruptions occur. For years, supply chains were engineered to be lean.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Source: mainebiz.biz In today’s rapidly evolving logistics and supply chain sector, warehouses are increasingly turning to innovative technologies to gain a competitive edge. has over 450,000 warehouses and distribution centers, with 16.4 According to JLL, the U.S. billion square feet of rooftop space.

Waste Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies find it difficult to fully trust the data from suppliers, complicating efforts to ensure product authenticity, safety, and ethical sourcing. This will enable diamond jewelry consumers at scale to engage with the unique journeys their diamonds have taken from source.

Supply Chain Software

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

Modeling

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As a result, hospital chains largely lacked competence in sourcing. They are moving to a self-distribution model that further lowers their reliance on costly distributors. In many healthcare systems, the costs of these supplies and services were not closely examined. The costs were passed down the line to patients and insurers.

Negotiating Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SEFE will manage global ammonia sourcing and distribution through Germanys hydrogen core grid, while Hegh Evi will provide midstream infrastructure, including shipping and floating ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. These passports provide a digital way to document a products entire lifecycle, ensuring compliance and transparency.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Precoro

JULY 4, 2025

The difference between sole source vs. single source is on the surface. In single sourcing, your company selects a single supplier exclusively , even though there are other capable suppliers on the market. In sole sourcing, you don’t have a choice —only one supplier can provide what you need. The reason?

Purchasing Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SEFE will manage global ammonia sourcing and distribution through Germanys hydrogen core grid, while Hegh Evi will provide midstream infrastructure, including shipping and floating ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. These passports provide a digital way to document a products entire lifecycle, ensuring compliance and transparency.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 27, 2025

This week in supply chain and logistics news includes Blue Yonder being selected to support Border States, an electrical distribution company, with their warehouse management needs. Border States, a leading electrical distributor, has chosen Blue Yonder to power its first regional distribution center, scheduled to open in 2026.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2025

But inside the distribution center is just the start. Simulation tools powered by AI now model hundreds of trade and sourcing scenarios in minutes, helping firms proactively dodge margin erosion. The next-gen WMS incorporates AI-driven optimization, no-code customization, and unified visibility across networks.

Real-time Visibility

ToolsGroup

MARCH 19, 2025

In modern distribution networks, meeting service levels requires getting precisely the right inventory to the right locations at the right time.

Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shippers’ end-to-end supply chain predictions are based on applying AI to OpenWeb searches, import/export records, data from sourcing platforms like ThomasNet, federal logistics records, and other data. These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

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Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 2, 2025

CLM changed its name twenty years ago to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) to be more inclusive of the source, plan, and make aspects of supply chain management. Would there be less fog if we could move planning data seamlessly across make, source, and deliver bi-directionally through orchestration engines?

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2025

Create clear, step-by-step instructions for specific scenarios, like losing a distribution center, a WMS failure, or a Tier 1 supplier going offline. Companies with dual sourcing and buffer inventory got back on track faster. These should reflect your actual risk tolerance, not generic estimates.

Supply Chain Planning Software

The Network Effect

JULY 24, 2025

July 24, 2025 Hariprasad Balasubramanium Distribution , Logistics , Warehousing This post has already been read 259 times! Skip to content The Network Effect Beyond Supply Chains Menu Home Business Networks Supply Chain Management Logistics Resilience AI About Submit a Post Are Micro Fulfillment Centers the Next Frontier in Retail Logistics?

Inventory Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. For example, an AI agent can detect an issue in a regional distribution center and evaluate its impact across the global network, providing planners tailored recommendations to address the disruption.

Resource Reduction

Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They write, “This includes tackling bigger issues such as compliance, supplier relationship management, risk and disruption, responsible sourcing, and transparency. “AI allows you to integrate real-time data from various sources, helping you devise more efficient delivery routes and schedules.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

Imagine a scenario where a regional disruption impacts a key distribution hub: a pre-established network of logistics providers could seamlessly share available warehouse space, cross-docking facilities, or even available truck capacity, mitigating the impact far more effectively than individual companies acting in isolation.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2025

LoRa’s ability to operate across multiple kilometers with minimal power usage has made it a favorite in distributed supply chains. Walmart integrates IoT with machine learning in its distribution centers to fine-tune HVAC and lighting systems, with sustainability as a core goal.

Supply Chain Design Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Libiao Robotics demonstrated its T-Sort sorting robots, designed for high-speed parcel distribution in e-commerce fulfillment centers. This autonomous delivery robot is designed to streamline internal transport tasks within warehouses and distribution centers, signaling a growing convergence between service robotics and industrial automation.

Asia

ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from? This makes it essential that buyers understand where they are sourcing their products from and how that ultimately affects their brand. What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from?

Purchasing Skills

Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2025

Companies importing and exporting goods, be it finished retail products, manufacturing components or materials, now face substantial cost and price pressures that squeeze margins and force difficult pricing, sourcing, operations and distribution decisions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Distribution: Data-driven distribution networks utilize advanced routing and scheduling to ensure timely deliveries while minimizing transportation expenses. Procurement Practices: Strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management can lead to cost savings and improved reliability. How is supply chain performance measured?

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

We have not designed the planning systems to serve managers, directors, and vice presidents, aiming to improve decision-making and collaboration across the source, make, and deliver processes. Using channel and trading partner signals build outside-in models and orchestrate decisions across source, make and deliver. So, What Is Value?

Optimal Sourcing

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. Ethical sourcing science can be applied in so many different ways,” she adds. Or so they say, when asked in surveys.)

Manufacturing Procurement

ToolsGroup

MARCH 18, 2025

Your distribution network spans multiple locations. The unique combination of intermittent demand, multiple supply sources, and variable product lifecycles makes spare parts exceptionally challenging to forecast accurately. Suboptimal inventory distribution: excessive stock in low-demand locations and shortages in high-demand areas.

Supply Chain Planning Software

The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 15, 2025

In roles across transportation operations and transportation procurement, Corey has executed complex solutions for companies in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sectors. Global Tariffs & Supply Chain Strategy: This episode explores how changing tariffs impact freight costs, sourcing, and overall supply chain strength.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

They emphasized being an Industry Cloud Complete Company with industry-specific solutions for over 2000 micro verticals across Process Manufacturing, Distribution, Service Industries, and Discrete Manufacturing. Industry-specific content is available for processes like Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and more.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

ivalua

JULY 23, 2025

E-procurement is a digital process spanning the entire procurement lifecycle, from sourcing and contracting to ordering, invoicing, and payment. E-procurement goes beyond digital purchasing processes, connecting sourcing, contracting, ordering, and invoicing in a single system. See how e-procurement transforms sourcing to payment.

Procurement Solutions