ToolsGroup

JULY 3, 2025

Meeting Demand Surges in the Restaurant Supply Chain Peak demand days—such as National Hamburger Day or Super Bowl Sunday—create major stress on restaurant and foodservice logistics. Traditional forecasting methods often fail to capture real-world variables like local weather, special events, or marketing campaigns.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

The occurrence of any of these events disrupts the global supply chain and can deeply impact profitability. One event could create so much churn, Mr. Al Syed explained. can require accessing many pieces of siloed data and then looking for relationships between the data sets and an event that has occurred. is the user interface.

Negotiating Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

An organization with tens of thousands of different products may have to move them across many modes of transportation, IT systems, and third-party logistics partners, all adding to complexity, as well as loss of visibility and control. The ability to meet fulfillment goals is impeded by several issues.

Optimal Sourcing

Kinaxis

AUGUST 1, 2025

The key metric here is landed cost impact. Create supplier scorecards that track not just traditional metrics like quality and delivery, but new factors like tariff exposure, geographic flexibility, and crisis response capability. The goal is to shift from reactive tariff management to proactive optimization.

Negotiating Skills

Freight Waves

JULY 10, 2025

The event, a premier gathering for freight and logistics leaders, promises to equip attendees with forward-looking strategies amid ongoing U.S.-China Supply chain leaders have grappled with disruptions from events like the U.S.-China China trade dynamics and supply chain volatilities.

China

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For instance, students might be tasked with developing a logistics plan that involves coordinating with multiple stakeholders to ensure the timely delivery of goods. For instance, a student interested in sustainable supply chain practices might choose courses focused on green logistics, ethical sourcing, and environmental impact assessment.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses. Ready to Transform Your Freight Operations?

Optimal Sourcing

Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

This architecture deliberately pushes beyond visibility to enable action and automation, ultimately working toward what project44 describes as “self-optimized logistics” through “adaptive, automated actions at scale.” This extensive connectivity has resulted in impressive metrics: 1.2

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

Because logistics are tightly woven into production, fulfillment and the customer experience, the impact of a transit issue, like a delayed shipment, can quickly ripple across the whole business. It’s a logistics model designed for change — and the foundation for long-term supply chain resilience.

Freight

BlueYonder

APRIL 8, 2025

Supply chain and logistics teams today face a pivotal moment in their evolution. The traditional metrics of excellence cost efficiency, on-time delivery while still important, are no longer sufficient in an era defined by volatility, complexity and political changes. Third, decision-making is evolving from human-led to AI-augmented.

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

There’s a growing sense that we may see a loosening of the regulatory environment — similar to the 2016-2020 period — which could offer carriers and logistics providers the chance to shift focus from compliance-heavy operations to strategic growth and efficiency. Which Metrics Matter?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

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. Teams are more transparent and closely connected, further improving efficiency when responding to an event. And the cherry on top?

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing

Locus

JULY 28, 2025

Measuring efficiency requires tracking metrics like first-attempt delivery rate, vehicle utilization, and route adherence. High-performing logistics teams use data, segmentation, and automation to improve routing outcomes. What Is Routing Efficiency in Logistics?

Sourcing Strategies

Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

This is a challenging and uncertain economic and trade environment for shippers, carriers and logistics services providers. We remain committed to growing our business with prudent investments and cost discipline to build the premier network and technology for logistics-intensive businesses." Ryan, Descartes' CEO.

Expense Reduction

Procurement Academy

JANUARY 9, 2025

It incorporates disciplines such as procurement, logistics, and inventory management to create a cohesive and competitive supply chain. Volatile markets, as a result of significant geopolitical events, and demand fluctuations, caused by seasonality, can both make demand forecasting a bit more difficult. There are challenges, however.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 11, 2025

Readiness in last-mile logistics requires several key components. Logistics Last Mile Delivery Artificial Intelligence RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! But before talking about tools, we have to talk about readiness. Arthur Axelrad is co-founder and chief executive officer of Dispatch Science.

Supply Chain Design Software

Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

The third assumption was that the logistics infrastructure would always be available. But during Covid, and other constraints like the Suez Canal closure, we saw what happens when suddenly logistics are not there when needed. We need to rewrite these systems and introduce new taxonomies to manage hyper-variability.

Optimal Sourcing

Freight Waves

JULY 8, 2025

Historically, this holiday period is characterized by heightened freight activities driven by an increase in consumer spending and the need for timely distributions of goods as various industries prepare for summer events and promotions.

Atlanta

ivalua

AUGUST 12, 2025

Sourcing teams can identify cost-saving opportunities in contracts, logistics, and supplier consolidation, especially in volatile markets. Ivalua facilitates this collaboration with integrated CLM, linking sourcing events to contract enforcement and performance tracking.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

From planning cookie delivery routes to inventing new gadgets, girls will build key skills such as creative thinking, teamwork and problem-solving, getting a peek into how logistics keeps the world moving.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Supply Chain Disruption Mapping In recent years, disruptions—whether due to geopolitical events or climate-related factors—have required fast, informed decisions. Vendor Performance Reviews Made Visual Procurement teams routinely evaluate vendors based on metrics like delivery timeliness, cost efficiency, quality ratings, and compliance.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

To thrive under these constraints, shippers need a playbook designed specifically for them — or they need to partner with a logistics provider that has thought them through. If you’re partnering with a logistics provider, you want to carefully vet their operations and reputation. It also means taking sustainability extremely seriously.

Hawaii

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

The warehouse, meanwhile, has been elevated from afterthought to a central player, as new demands and responsibilities are placed on supply chains — from small-batch wave picking and reverse logistics to deeper supplier collaboration, and tariff and sustainability compliance. The risk to business continuity is a further concern.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

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Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

In 2023 , a worker strike among delivery and logistics workers at parcel carrier UPS was characterized by The Wall Street Journal as being “ the largest collective bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America.” economy and for industry supply chains.

Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

That includes everything from raw materials and manufacturing to packaging and logistics. AI can integrate with procurement platforms, utility meters, logistics trackers and internet of things sensors to gather real-time data. Known as Scope 3 emissions, these are also the most difficult to measure and manage.

Rail Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

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Cost Reduction Strategies

Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Their success extends beyond internal metrics to real-world fraud prevention. This collaborative approach has proven effective, as CrowleySAFE has “played a key role in preventing two six-figure theft events by flagging mismatched SCAC and driver identity prior to pickup.”

Supply Chain Network Software

Locus

JULY 28, 2025

Last mile delivery powered by connected logistics tech. Key Takeaways Last mile delivery accounts for over 50% of total logistics costs and directly shapes customer experience. Locus helps enterprises streamline last mile management with intelligent routing, live tracking, and predictive logistics insights.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

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Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 10, 2025

Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they’re working with a third-party logistics provider, outside consultant or both on adopting potential technologies, so it’s important that supply chain managers understand how to get the relationship off on the right foot. How will future goals be set?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

The Journey to Logistics Automation THE SUPPLYCHAINBRAIN PODCAST Podcast | Have a Good Trip! The Journey to Logistics Automation Photo: iStock / imaginima July 11, 2025 Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain If picking the right systems for automating logistics is a journey, how do you even get out the door?

Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

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Price Reduction

SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2025

Operational risks: Supplier bankruptcies, poor quality control, or delays in logistics. Structuring your business as an LLC can provide a layer of legal protection for your assets in the event of a data breach, contract dispute, or tech-related liability. Its a smart move that pairs well with your tech-forward strategy.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2025

A New Approach to Supply Chain Management Logistics and supply chain leaders know their supply chains need to be more agile, ready to withstand everything from a global pandemic to geopolitical conflict. Enhancing transparency and collaboration with suppliers, customers, and logistics partners. They need to design them.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

If you make beer and are looking at forecasting models that dont incorporate information about the football schedule before such an event, you’re going to be in real trouble. To use a rudimentary illustration from the U.K.,

Sourcing Strategies