Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

In addition, other infrastructure repairs which impact freight transportation in and around Ashville, North Carolina are still not completed. The logistics, supply chain, freight transportation, warehousing, and inventory management sectors often operate on razor-thin margins. tallying a staggering $182 billion in damages.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

The logistics landscape is evolving rapidly as more manufacturers relocate production closer to domestic markets. This trend, known as reshoring , is driving the emergence of regionalized freight networks , optimizing supply chains for efficiency, cost savings, and resilience. Government Incentives for Reshoring The U.S. Midwest U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 2, 2025

Labor shortages in warehousing persist as a significant issue, with a vacancy rate of 7.4%. The report mentions the freight recession, but is largely silent on the impact on business resiliency. What if we had a shipper rating system based on forecast, dock scheduling, warehouse logistics, and payables? of the national GDP.

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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. Just be prepared for anything and keep going.

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Freight Waves

JULY 10, 2025

FreightWaves has announced that Leland Miller, CEO of China Beige Book International, will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Future of Freight Festival (F3) this November. The event, a premier gathering for freight and logistics leaders, promises to equip attendees with forward-looking strategies amid ongoing U.S.-China

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3PL Insights

JUNE 16, 2025

With Detroit’s legacy as the Motor City, the region is home to countless manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors deeply embedded in the global automotive supply chain. For auto parts, many of which are time-sensitive and tied to just-in-time manufacturing schedules, any lag in the supply chain can result in stalled production.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

manufacturers have spent the last few decades consolidating production at gigantic offshore plants, especially in China. Such a model, based on prioritizing unit economies and production at scale, doesn’t prepare manufacturers and retailers for the waves of disruption that are washing over global supply chains today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Companies are proactively acquiring electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, battery storage providers, and related infrastructure firms to embed sustainability into their operations. In response, major freight operators have recently acquired advanced battery technology firms to accelerate fleet electrification.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But in the context of the Shippers Council, the shipper is the cargo owner (or BCO beneficial cargo owner), usually a manufacturer, who contracts with a logistics service provider (LSP), which, in the Councils definition, can be a transportation (land, sea, air) company, an express company, a forwarder, or a full-fledged 3PL.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 8, 2025

Today’s digital networks enable continuous real-time optimization where demand signals update instantly across all nodes, inventory positions adjust dynamically, and transportation and warehouse plans reconfigure automatically in response to changing conditions. Warehouse operations are being similarly revolutionized.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 22, 2025

This week: Supply chain invest in new cross-border facilities; Japanese industrial supplier investing $5M in Mexico expansion; and Benchmark Electronics opens manufacturing facility in Guadalajara, Mexico. Dubai-based DP World recently opened a freight forwarding office in Mexico City. 1 trade partner of the U.S., million-square-feet.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As supply chains become more complex and globalized, many companies find it beneficial to rely on third-party logistics (3PL) providers to handle some or all of their transportation, warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment needs. Among these, Freight Forwarding is a vital service that ensures goods move seamlessly across borders.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 23, 2025

McCarthy identified a number of logistics inefficiencies while previously working for e-commerce giant Amazon alongside its warehouse operations teams. In one warehouse, he said the company now automates over 80% of inbound customer inquiries. “A That’s where AI comes to the rescue. task accuracy,” McCarthy said. “An

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

That includes everything from raw materials and manufacturing to packaging and logistics. For most CPG brands, indirect emissions — those that occur across the supply chain — represent the majority of their carbon footprint. Known as Scope 3 emissions, these are also the most difficult to measure and manage.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Other developments to watch for, according to Koganti, include computer vision, which combined with robotics offers the ability to scan store or warehouse shelves and automatically issue order for replenishment, There are already nine billion cameras in the world (seven billion of them in phones).

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Flexport AI Flexport AI is revolutionizing logistics and freight forwarding by integrating AI-driven automation into shipment tracking and route planning. Pathmind Pathmind leverages reinforcement learning to optimize warehouse and manufacturing processes, enhancing operational efficiency.

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RFgen

JULY 8, 2025

For example, manufacturers relying on spreadsheets may overlook delays until production is interrupted. Mobile tools, integrated sensors, and predictive systems enhance both day-to-day performance and long-term risk management by providing data that supports faster, more accurate decisions across warehouse and production environments.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

However, as air freight rates climb and capacity tightens and questions regarding the future of US de minimis, interest in ocean freight services is on the rise. Indeed, over the past couple of years, online platforms have introduced ocean freight services that target SMBs. fulfillment center network.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As the size and scale of their worldwide supply chains increase, many manufacturers, retailers and distributors are finding themselves constrained by shortfalls in resources, capacity and specialized knowledge. As freight carrier rates and fuel prices rise, and competition for customers heats up, their margins are shrinking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2025

Warehouse OpsAgent: The agent coordinates and manages highly interdependent tasks, including labor reallocation, supply/demand-based predictive warehouse layouts, outbound risk identification, trailer docking and unloading optimization, and risk mitigation associated with on time in full (OTIF) compliance.

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Freight Waves

JULY 12, 2025

trade and support domestic manufacturing. More importantly, inventory costs have risen even faster—driven by tariffs and rising warehousing expenses. About the Chart of the Week The FreightWaves Chart of the Week is a chart selection from SONAR that provides an interesting data point to describe the state of the freight markets.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

For example, switching from air to ocean freight for non-time sensitive shipments can reduce carbon emissions by up to 95% per unit shipped. Warehouse Energy Warehouse operations today offer big opportunities for carbon emission reduction through facility management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Even with local processing, network variability, particularly in remote warehouses, ports, and along mobile routes, can still cause small but impactful delays. Different manufacturers and vendors often use different protocols and systems, making integrations resource intensive from both a capital and personnel perspective.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

As a result, users may receive decisions that are not objective in terms of identifying specific suppliers, customers, manufacturing facilities or distribution methods. SPECIAL REPORT AI: Real or Hype? If there’s bias, AI will produce a biased output. Resources include the U.S.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 3, 2025

Capacity was reported to be tighter for upstream companies like manufacturers and wholesalers, which returned a neutral reading of 50 compared to downstream retailers, which said capacity notably expanded (65.3). Elevated but static inventories kept available warehouse capacity neutral at 50, which was 5.4 Warehouse utilization (62.5)

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

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3PL Insights

MAY 16, 2025

As robotics continues to reshape manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment, more companies are investing in large, complex automation systems to gain a competitive edge. Robots as High-Value Assets Large industrial robots from robotic arms used in automotive production to full-scale mobile automation units are not ordinary freight.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Other users of the information will be retailers and their supply chains, as well as government authorities seeking to uphold export regulations, according to Megan Brewster, vice president of advanced technology with Impinj , a manufacturer of radio frequency identification devices.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2025

Lean Manufacturing and Process Optimization Lean manufacturing principles focus on eliminating waste and inefficiencies from the production process. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management: JIT is a lean manufacturing approach where inventory is ordered and delivered just in time for production or customer delivery.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 6, 2025

This might include balancing domestic and overseas providers, large-scale manufacturers with smaller niche specialists, or established firms with newer, agile suppliers. These tools connect procurement with warehousing, logistics, and supplier systems so everyone shares the same view. Warehousing strategy plays a part, too.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Getting shipments from the production facility or warehouse to the retail store or the consumers doorstep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. Manufacturers and retailers can minimize their risk, however, by incorporating carriers vehicle maintenance and safety records into their freight procurement decisions.

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3PL Insights

APRIL 7, 2025

April 7, 2024 — Evans Distribution Systems , a full-service third-party logistics (3PL) provider of warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, value-added, and staffing solutions, has activated 378,000-square-feet of additional warehouse space in Allen Park and Detroit, as a General Purpose Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) No.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While CPI is normally used within project management and earned value analysis, it has significant application and importance within supply chain contexts, particularly in procurement, logistics and warehousing. What contexts can it be used in and how, as well as the benefits of using cost performance index in supply chain contexts.

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