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Combating Fraud in the Freight Industry

Talking Logistics

In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they had experienced cargo theft or other types of freight fraud in the past year. Almost half said they had experienced theft or fraud, and. Read more The post Combating Fraud in the Freight Industry appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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2025 Supply Chain Trends: Turning Challenges into Advantages

Logility

Supply chains are no longer just a businesss logistical backbonetheyre the frontline where competitive advantage is won or lost. Companies that fail to evolve will continue to fall further behind, while those embracing AI-driven solutions, resilience, and sustainability will truly redefine the future. Good enough just wont cut it anymore no matter the size of your business, as Markus Malinen , EMEA Vice President at Logility, puts it.

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Should You Say YES to MEIO?

John Galt

Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) elevates inventory management by optimizing stock levels across the supply chain. Read more.

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FMCG - 7 Top Tips To Tip-Top Customer Service

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Service with a smile? Do FMCG companies delude themselves on Customer Service (CS) performance? I think some companies are guilty of this but may or may not know it is happening! Whatever service related Key Performance Indicator (KPI) you measure, the objective is to see how you are performing both internally and at a retailer or outlet level and importantly, against peers.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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What is Inventory? A Comprehensive Guide to Types and Uses

My Office Apps

What is Inventory? A Comprehensive Guide to Types and Uses Inventory is a critical component of any business that deals with goods, as it forms the backbone of a company’s ability to operate efficiently and profitably. It encompasses all the stock of products, materials, or items a company holds for resale, production, or operational use. Without proper inventory management, businesses risk losing customers, wasting resources, and facing financial strain.

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Future Trends in Healthcare Supply Chain: What’s Next for Consolidated Service Centers?

Tecsys

The healthcare supply chain is entering 2025 on a tailwind of consolidated service center (CSC) momentum. Over the past year, several large U.S. health systems publicly announced they had opened, are building, or are in the planning stages of a CSC.

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Winter Storms: A Lesson in Supply Chain Fragility and the Need for Visibility

Exiger Perspectives

Table of Contents Acute climate events will be a major risk for supply chain disruption in 2025, say Exiger experts in the new white paper, Supply Chain Resilience: 7 Factors to Watch in 2025. These events can include hurricanes and cyclones, droughts, or severe snow and ice storms. Lessons learned from severe winter weather: A storm four years ago disrupted many U.S. supply chains including the manufacturing of medical devices.

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Building Resilient and Agile Supply Chains: Key Strategies for Success

ModusLink Corporation

Supply Chain Management – SCM – The Coordinated Process of Producing and Delivering Goods and Services from Suppliers to Consumers – Conceptual Illustration In todays rapidly evolving global marketplace, supply chain disruptions have become a regular occurrence. Factors such as geopolitical shifts, extreme weather events, raw material shortages, and infrastructure challenges can significantly impact operations.

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Embattled Drayage Providers Struggle to Survive as They Await Recovery in the Market

Supply Chain Brain

Of all the many links that make up a global supply chain, drayage is among the most challenging to perform efficiently and profitably.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Planning at the Edge of Chaos

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC was briefed by John Galt Associates not long ago. They used the phrase planning at the edge of chaos. I love that. That is a very good phrase for describing the increasing complexity and need for speed large organizations face. John Galt Solutions has focused product development on helping companies to ameliorate this chaos. This involves the use of new technologies on their platform.

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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, I feel like a bobble-head. My head is wobbling with announcements, late-night Friday press releases, company name changes, and executive turnover in the supply chain planning market. Is it musical chairs? Or a Merry-Go-Round? I am not sure, but it does not feel good. Here, I give my take. Noodle.AI Renames the Company Daybreak. No doubt that the company, Noodle.ai, needed a fresh start after burning through $107M in capital of five rounds of financing.

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Trends 2025: Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

According to journalist Mark Sullivan , “2024 saw a real acceleration in both the development and the application of [artificial intelligence]. Expectations are high that AI will move beyond just generating text and images and morph into agents that can complete complex tasks on behalf of users. But thats just one of many directions in which AI might move in 2025.”[1] Tracking various directions in which AI might head is critical for today’s business leaders.

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Editor’s Pick: How to Protect Your Transportation Technology from Supply Chain Cyber Threats

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This recent post from JBF Consulting’s blog discusses the rise of cyber attacks (for example, see Blue Yonder Cyberattack: How Prepared Are.

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The Evolving Retailer's Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Manhattan Associates Joins a Select Group of SCM Software Vendors in the Billion Dollar Club

Logistics Viewpoints

Eddie Capel, CEO of Manhattan Associates Yesterday, Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) reported annual revenue of $1.042 billion, up from $929 million last year. This represents year-over-year growth of 12.1%. Manhattan joins a select group of supply chain software suppliers generating over $1 billion in annual revenue. Manhattan Associates is a leader in two markets, warehouse management systems and omnichannel systems.

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AI in 2025: Expect Another Wave of Innovation in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

In supply chain, all the talk today is about AI-driven autonomous operations, removing the need for human intervention in key decision-making.

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8 Tips for Managing Your Business & Scaling for Growth

IT Supply Chain

By Richard Pearson (pictured) Content Writer The post 8 Tips for Managing Your Business & Scaling for Growth appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 31, 2025)

Talking Logistics

Im driving down to CT today to have dinner with my mom. Its her 77th birthday. My mom was barely 18 when she emigrated to the United States from Cuba. She and her sister started working at the SweetN Low factory in Brooklyn, NY. Soon after, she met my dad (who also emigrated from Cuba. Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 31, 2025) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.

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Types of Supply Chain Reports: Definition and Benefits

SCMDOJO

Supply chain reports offer a comprehensive view of your entire supply chain operation. They are powerful tools for businesses to identify areas for improvement, optimize processes, and gain a competitive edge. What are Supply Chain Reports? Supply chain reports are data-driven documents that provide key metrics and insights into various aspects of your supply chain, including: Inventory Levels Tracking stock levels in real-time to ensure adequate inventory to meet demand while minimizing holding

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Materials Handling in Australia

Logistics Bureau

Material Handling is the movement, protection, storage, and control of materials and products throughout manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption, and disposal. As you can probably imagine, it’s critical in modern supply chains. Material handling equipment (MHE) includes everything from basic pallet jacks to sophisticated automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS).

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Should You Choose a Fixed or Floating Mortgage? 6 Key Factors to Consider

IT Supply Chain

By Mike Bronson (pictured) Content Writer The post Should You Choose a Fixed or Floating Mortgage? 6 Key Factors to Consider appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How to Improve Safety Stock Calculation?

Demand Driven Technologies

Understanding Safety Stock Calculation Strategic inventory positioning is critical in supply chain management, and one of the most important aspects of this is determining safety stock. Statistical formulas are commonly used to size safety stocks, helping businesses account for demand variability and lead-time variability.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Navigating Supply Chain Disruptions: Strategies for Resilience

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

In an increasingly unpredictable world, supply chain disruptions are no longer the exception but the rule. From natural disasters and geopolitical tensions to pandemics and labor shortages, the challenges facing supply chain professionals have grown more complex. The ability to navigate these disruptions isnt just a competitive advantageits a necessity for long-term success.

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Ecommerce Logistics: Definition, Headaches & More

Logistics Bureau

E-commerce logistics is the backbone of online retail operations, covering everything from when a customer clicks “buy” to when they receive their package. This is made up of several different components: Order Fulfillment is where it starts – this includes receiving inventory, storing products, picking items when orders come in, and packing them for shipping.

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The Future of Collaboration with AI in Business Media

IT Supply Chain

By Richard Pearson (pictured) Content Writer The post The Future of Collaboration with AI in Business Media appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Cybersecurity in Supply Chain Management: How to Protect Your Network from Threats

SCMDOJO

A supply chain attack is one of the most problematic forms of cyber attacks. Cybercriminals need only to target the vendor, and it will affect so many people. That said, cybersecurity is of high importance in supply chain management. Continue reading to learn about how dangerous supply chain attacks are and how they are performed. More importantly, learn about the ways you can protect your network from threats.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Why 2025 Is the Year of the Smart Warehouse

Locus Robotics

Home January 31, 2025 Why 2025 Is the Year of the Smart Warehouse Hamid Montazeri , Sr. VP, Software & A.I. Co-authored by Hamid Montazeri and Mary Hart 2025 stands as a pivotal year for warehouses to transition into smart operations powered by artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous robots, and data analytics. As Drew Eubanks of Zion Solutions Group aptly put it on an episode of Warehouse Automation Matters , "Were starting to see exponential growth in the adaptation of technologies.

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Evolving Supply Chain Models and the Outlook for Investors

Logistics Bureau

What should investors look for when deciding which companies offer the most promising possibilities of healthy yields? Thats what well explore in the article, both as a general indication of the supply chains impact on future business performance, and a guide for potential investors. Which Supply Chain Approaches Will Drive ROI for Investors? For investors wishing to evaluate the supply chain as an indicator for company investment, it is first necessary to understand how supply chains must chang

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Get Your Creative Juices Flowing with Smodin’s AI Writer!

IT Supply Chain

By Rob Jackson (pictured) Content Writer The post Get Your Creative Juices Flowing with Smodin’s AI Writer! appeared first on IT Supply Chain.