Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

News that 3PL giant DHL will buy more than 1000 robots from Boston Dynamics, according to a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two firms. The idea is that the package delivery robots will be transported in Amazon’s fleet of Rivian electric vans and will soon be ready to start real-world testing at a new facility.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

I will note we lost one member of our index when software maker and privately held Aptean acquired Logility early in 2025, and will soon lose another software company when non-public WiseTech’s purchase of e2open is finalized. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! We have to keep this in mind.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4 of total transport costs and 38.5% of total transport costs and 8.9% of transportation spend – down from 6.1% With overall transport costs rising 8.7% Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Smith’s pilots were asked to use their personal credit cards to buy fuel and stagger cashing their paychecks.” ( See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON At one point, the company was down to its last $5,000 — which Smith took to Las Vegas and turned into $27,000 playing blackjack. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Said Susan Spence, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management, Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, stated that: “The demand indicators remain mixed, with the New Orders and Backlog of Orders indexes contracting at faster rates, while the Customers’ Inventories and New Export Orders indexes contracted at slower rates.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In additiion I realize it's difficult to understand what goes into the customer survey, but would I assume specific metrics are being asked. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Electric Charging Station Installs Soar in Q2 According to a report from Transport Topics this week, 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the US in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom on record, according to Department of Energy data. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. What Is The Ring of Fire?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

Each month we actively manage 2 to 4 quantitative surveys and we currently sit on over 5,500 responses. In the next couple of months we will be mining the cross-survey data for greater insights and sharing them with you in the form of infographics. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Using quantitative surveys, we collected the data in Figure 1 in 2014. Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. This is why we continue to fund surveys which we share openly and freely. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Gaining end-to-end visibility across your transportation processes delivers: $32.00 Typically companies operated in silos, but according to a recent Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee survey, while some lines between business functions have blurred, silos still exist, especially between purchasing and logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. The predominate ERP SCP solution for the respondent in the survey is SAP APO. The Oracle solution is strong in demand and transportation, but weak in tactical supply and production planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. Survey existing suppliers, third-party logistics providers and customers. What Is Visibility?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. This exceeds the 55% previously reported in the Supply Chain Insights surveys. Align Transportation Planning and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. The strategy day owner was a global process center of excellence leader. If you enjoy our research, please help us by filling out our current survey. The result? Background.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Although 2023 first half reliability has been improving to around 65%, the lead time variability is still high compared to other modes of transportation, and still below pre-pandemic levels. Supply chain managers require visibility to track the necessary components from a purchase order for production or to fulfill a customer order.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Be demand driven. Hire smart data analysts.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a collaborative blog post series about mobility in manufacturing & logistics along with Catavolt, who helps manufacturing organizations drive operational excellence with mobile apps. What is the Hyperconnected Era or “The Internet of Things?” According to Gartner, Inc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Driving an excellent supply chain depends on how people are recruited and managed, processes, and the technology used. Their associate engagement survey allows Ferguson to understand the driver’s impacting engagement across their 31,000 employees. 56% of employees surveyed were engaged. Getting the Most out of People.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This team is not buying the message. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. We are the middle of closing the study on the use of downstream data and would love to have you in the survey. For a couple of hours I looked around the room and saw glazed eyes.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. trillion, a 3.8

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GlobalTranz

MAY 28, 2015

Editor’s Note: Omni- and multi- channel is transforming transportation’s supply chain and logistics processes. The answer is simple – customers appreciate a sophisticated and hassle-free shopping experience and visit only websites with high performance and an excellent customer service. Personalized E-Mail Campaign.

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