All Things Supply Chain
JUNE 3, 2025
While the worlds been busy debating tariffs and reshoring strategies, a quiet policy shift is sending shockwaves through e-commerce: the repeal of the U.S. de minimis provision.
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 3, 2025
Order fulfillment is the complete process from when an order is placed until the shipment is delivered. Accurately fulfilling thousands of orders for millions of items is extremely challenging. Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. However, large organizations are often equipped to handle fulfillment in-house, leveraging their extensive resources and capabilities.
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Kinaxis
JUNE 3, 2025
How CPG leaders can reduce costs without hurting supply chain performance fbaker Tue, 06/03/2025 - 09:18 In the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, SG&A (Selling, General, and Administrative) costs have long been a go-to target for improving margins. But today’s market is anything but typical. Volatile demand, shifting consumer preferences, and rising supply chain complexities make traditional cost-cutting strategies riskier.
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 3, 2025
Bob Gill, General Manager of ARC Advisory Group (right), presented the award to Dave Ching, Head of Sales for Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand (left). From May 19 to 21, 2025, CeMAT Southeast Asia and LogiSYM Asia Pacific were co-located for the second consecutive year at Singapore EXPO, creating a comprehensive platform for the regions logistics and supply chain community.
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The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.
ivalua
JUNE 3, 2025
As Procurement teams are tasked to do more with less in an increasingly complex and uncertain market, digitization has become a must. Procurement leaders have increasingly turned to Spend and Supplier Management platforms to improve decision-making, efficiency and collaboration. Vendors naturally make promises on the speed and level of value realized from their platforms, but 3rd party validation and actual results from past projects is needed to validate such claims and better build your own bu
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Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
Long delays and staff shortages are still affecting operations at Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo, about a week after the port resumed operations following a strike by customs workers. Miguel Angel Martinez, president of Mexico’s National Chamber of Freight Transport (Canacar), said some transporters are close to bankruptcy due to an operational crisis at Manzanillo’s customs department.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 3, 2025
A case study about integrated business planning with Gretchen Talley, global supply chain planning process owner with PepsiCo, and Dominick Metzger, president and chief product officer with SAP Supply Chain Management.
Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
Transportation metrics saw little change in May as capacity, utilization and pricing remained in expansion territory, according to a monthly survey of supply chain professionals. The Logistics Managers’ Index – a diffusion index in which a reading above 50 indicates expansion while one below 50 signals contraction – had a 54.7 reading for transportation capacity during May, which was roughly in line with April.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 3, 2025
In the midst of economic and trade turmoil, its the responsibility of business leaders to develop and maintain effective relationships with supply chain partners.
Learn how centralizing slow-moving SKUs can help reduce fulfillment costs by $300M+ while boosting fulfillment efficiency.
Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
(GIF: GIPHY) It’s not very often the transportation industry gets a win on Capitol Hill. But it seems the conversation around fraud has gotten national attention as the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced the Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act (S. 337). Championed by Sens. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., the bill seeks to restore and enhance the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s authority to address fraud and deceptive practices
SCMDOJO
JUNE 3, 2025
Picture yourself at your local hardware store comparing two paint cans that appear completely identical, yet they have completely different price tags. Before digital tools entered the scene, thats almost exactly what procurement used to feel like. Today though? Estimating costs is no longer an art of educated guesses, its transformed into precision science.
EFT
JUNE 3, 2025
Channels: Technology Supply Chain Logistics CEO Focus Freight eCommerce/Retail CSCO Focus Hi-Tech Industrial Logistics 3PL Tags: supply chain logistics shipping freight sourcing procurement reshoring nearshoring suppliers Event Date: Tue, 2025-11-04 to Wed, 2025-11-05 Event URL: [link] Event Location: Houston Number of attendees: 200 Programme URL: Brochure URL: [link] Speakers URL: [link] Purchase Recording URL: Event Organiser: Abigail Blackwell Event Organiser E-mail: abigail.blackwell@thomso
USC Consulting Group
JUNE 3, 2025
Operational excellence is the pursuit of enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in business processes. Traditionally, companies relied on established methods to optimize their operations. However, artificial intelligence (AI) and data science now augment traditional practices, leading to innovations in Lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing remains foundational to operational excellence.
Advertiser: GEP
“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.
John Galt
JUNE 3, 2025
Powered by AI, intelligentworkflows in supply chain planning software are elevating how organizations manage their processes. Read more.
Supply Chain Matters
JUNE 3, 2025
Bob Ferrari, Founder of Supply Chain Matters and Michael Lamoureux, Founder of Sourcing Innovation have been collaborating together in a multi-part series aimed to help readers understand why both legacy sourcing and procurement planning processes and legacy supply chain support applications continue to struggle with today’s business challenges.
QAD
JUNE 3, 2025
Updated: June 3, 2025 Published: February 23, 2022 Parcel volumes have skyrocketed in recent years. Unfortunately, so have prices. In recent years, global carriers have lost some of their volumes to regional carriers. If you serve customers across a limited geographic area, this may be a more cost effective shipping strategy. However, if your customers are dispersed around the world, the best way to control global logistics and international parcel shipments is to leverage multiple carriers.
Arena Solutions
JUNE 3, 2025
Amid todays unpredictable environment, supply chain risk management has taken center stage for most product companies striving to maintain resilience and efficiency. Geopolitical tensions, tariffs, inflation, and labor shortages have heightened risk exposure, significantly impacting business performance. According to a KPMG survey, 51% of U.S. businesses do not have effective measures in place to handle increasing risk events and disruptions.
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
IT Supply Chain
JUNE 3, 2025
By Christine Baker (pictured) Content Writer The post From Ransomware to AdLoad: The Cyber Threats Targeting Today’s IT Supply Chains appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Precoro
JUNE 3, 2025
Definition: Category management is a systematic way to organize and supervise groups of products or services within a company. Businesses often use it in retail and purchasing. In category management, you sort items with similar characteristics and treat each group as a separate unit. The goal is to get the best results from every category. Category management isn’t just another procurement trend.
IT Supply Chain
JUNE 3, 2025
By Ian Benson (pictured) Content Writer The post A Smarter Digital Marketing Strategy appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Exiger Perspectives
JUNE 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC. JUNE 3, 2025 Exiger , the market-leading supply chain AI company and largest supply chain technology provider to the U.S. Government, announced today that it has been awarded the Customer Excellence award by Hakkoda, an IBM Company, in the annual Data Innovation Awards presented during Snowflake Summit. Hakkodas Data Innovation Awards recognize companies for groundbreaking use of data to fuel compelling applications, and exceptional creativity in expanding the art of the possibl
Advertiser: GEP
Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.
Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
The busiest container port on the U.S. East Coast saw surging container volume in April. The Port of New York and New Jersey handled 751,194 twenty-foot equivalent units in April as shippers continued to frontload imports ahead of tariffs on Chinese goods. The total was an increase of 24% from April 2019 prior to the pandemic and a 6% gain from April 2024, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 3, 2025
Target Chief Commercial Officer Rick Gomez said that the retailer has reduced the share of products it sources from China from 60% in 2017, to 30% today.
Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted “above-normal” hurricane activity this summer in its annual outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. A news release from the organization published last week forecasts a range of 13 to 19 total named storms with winds of 39 mph or higher. NOAA estimated a 30% chance of a near-normal season, a 60% chance of an above-normal season and a 10% chance of a below-normal season.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 3, 2025
The logistics industry in 2024 returned to pre-pandemic levels in certain areas, but also dealt with flat business volumes, excess truck capacity and rising operation costs.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
Tensions in Canada’s postal service drama are worsening after Canada Post rejected a proposal by unionized mail carriers to resolve stalled contract talks with binding arbitration, adding to uncertainty about whether workers will take further action that could halt mail and parcel service across the nation. Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have since May 23 refused to work overtime, resulting in a limited slowdown for deliveries.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 3, 2025
In the U.S., business optimism dipped by more than 3%, while similar declines were seen in Mexico (-3.7%), Japan (-2.6%) and South Korea (-11.3%).
Freight Waves
JUNE 3, 2025
Claude Mongeau, the former Canadian National Railway chief executive, has resigned as chair of the Norfolk Southern board of directors, the company announced Tuesday. The resignation is for personal reasons, the railroad said. The board will elect a new chair at its next scheduled meeting later this month. Claude Mongeau “We are deeply grateful for Claude’s leadership over the past six years,” Norfolk Southern Chief Executive Mark George said in a release.
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