Freight Waves

JUNE 20, 2025

We respectfully request … the government’s intervention under section 107 of the Canada Labor Code to allow DHL Express to continue operating while we negotiate in good faith with the union. To be clear, DHL is not even one of the top four express package delivery companies in Canada and DHL workers represent fewer than 0.7%

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SCMDOJO

JULY 2, 2025

Modern supply chain operations demand exceptional efficiency in order to achieve market competitiveness. The global logistics industry undergoes transformative change because of technological developments which enhance delivery services from last-mile operations to worldwide freight management. trillion in value by 2027.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2025

Subscribe The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy! Infographic) In recent years, the focus on sustainability has become more crucial than ever, especially within the supply chain of appliance manufacturing. Shining a Spotlight on Sustainable Practices Take McCombs Supply, for example.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

What can supply chain leaders do to mitigate these risks? Sometimes The B2B buyer report revealed that 65% of buyers found AI-powered chatbots to be moderately or extremely helpful when it came to purchases. Make an AI alliance around key customer use cases. Customers Like AI.

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Instead of developing strategies to keep spend management and purchasing compliant, companies end up with multiple instances of maverick spend or unsustainable vendor behavior. Procurement compliance means ensuring all purchasing activities adhere to applicable regulations, laws, internal policies, and external guidelines.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

In an age where supply chains face persistent disruptionsfrom pandemics and trade wars to cyberattacks and climate volatilityresilience is no longer optional. This shift has pushed supply chain leadership to pivot from reactive management to proactive strategy built on data. Today, agility and adaptability determine who thrives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

These tariffs will raise costs, disrupt supply chains, and force companies to rethink sourcing and logistics strategies. Businesses must act immediately to safeguard operations, contain financial risks, and maintain supply chain stability. Strengthening Domestic Supply Chains Businesses that manufacture in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

New Roles and Skills likely to Emerge, Gartner’s Abdil Tunca Says July 30, 2025 Supply Chain Digest Says. Initially, robot management will operate as a distinct role within supply chain. It also has huge implications across the GE global supply chain with regard to the management of their support and spare parts network.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Over the next five years, those leaders have top priorities around enhancing the customer experience with more service options, increasing automation and further digitalizing processes and offerings What is a supply executive to do?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

If you asked those same leaders what they wished they had in place and are now investing in heavily, the answer would be “supply chain analytics.” Moving from raw, unintegrated data to useful supply chain analytics is expensive — and it takes time. Enter 2025, and we’re facing another major supply chain challenge.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

We always start with a check on the US and global economy, as that has such an impact in the end on supply chain practice. One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. US on-the-road diesel prices were flattish, starting the year at $3.56

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Use them to align plans with your company’s longer-term North Star strategies. Click here to send us your comments Aronow observes that many supply chain organizations are perpetually chasing their commercial partners to engage and improve the demand forecast. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supply chain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. On sustainability, Gartner says that there was a notable difference between the North American and EMEA regions.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supply chains list. That famous ranking used to be released at a dinner the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May (now called the Supply Chain Symposium), but this year it was again released in a webinar a few weeks after the conference. Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

You have completely new jobs being created,” such as robot technicians, Yesh Dattatreya, senior applied scientist at Amazon Robotics, told the Journal, adding that some warehouse workers are being trained in mechatronics and robotics apprenticeships.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. This is partly because the first facility is constantly hiring and training new employees while the second distribution center spends practically no time on this task. It also has huge implications across the GE global supply chain with regard to the management of their support and spare parts network.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

The on-going conflict creates risks to critical raw materials and the continued flow of finished goods, Garter says, requiring supply chains to conduct cost-benefit analyses of mitigation actions in partnership with finance leaders. Supply Chain Digest Says. Prepare CFOs for continued supply chain cost volatility 3.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments That according to a recent blog post by the maritime analysts at Drewry, which noted that “More than five years have passed since the huge shipping disruptions, damaging port congestion, and cost spikes of the Covid period, but one feature has remained: freight rate volatility.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

What I failed to do in any of those three columns was mention what in some ways may have been the biggest to news items: the retirements of sorts of Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich and groundbreaking, inaugural Gartner analyst, and famous inventor of the Three V’s of Supply Chain, Art Mesher.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. That price would represent about a 23% premium to Norfolk Southern’s stock before the first reports of a potential deal this month. It also has huge implications across the GE global supply chain with regard to the management of their support and spare parts network.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

Click here to send us your comments January New that supply chain software provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. All that is distant memory now, as the maker of freight trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells announced it had begun selling off its assets. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. The monthly report from Cass and partner Tim Denoyer of ACT Research is based on data from the billions of dollars of freight bills that Cass pays for its shipper clients. in 2024, and so far is trending toward another decline in 2025, Cass says, as carriers navigate the lousy freight environment.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

This week we review the performance of supply chain stocks, and next week we will provide our popular take on the 1H 2025 in numbers and charts On to the stocks, I am ending my numbers with the closing bell on July 3. In early 2021, SCDigest re-launched this weekly supply chain and logistics stock market index. Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

of GDP The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. of the total, versus 28.6%

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. 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. What do you say? What kinds of decisions must be made?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Add to that the new battle in the Middle East, with its risk of expansion, potentially impacting oil prices and more, and there is a lot to be worried about. Any F eedback on our Supply Chain Graphic of the Week? As can be seen, the index has soared in 2025 now exceeding levels at the start of the pandemic in early 2020.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. He founded a new freight company called “Federal Express,” to denote his national ambitions. Deregulation undertaken by Jimmy Carter meant that the federal government no longer had to approve routes and prices for interstate air transportation.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

It also has huge implications across the GE global supply chain with regard to the management of their support and spare parts network. But supply chain managers make decsions and use organizational resources that impact a company's financial well being. What do you say?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Click here to send us your comments Gartners Dwight Klappich, retired last week, after announcing his plan to step down sometime in 2025 earlier in the year. It also has huge implications across the GE global supply chain with regard to the management of their support and spare parts network. What do you say?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. The situation remains too volatile to firmly put such plans into place.“ The Prices Index remained in expansion (or increasing) territory, registering 69.7, reported in May (above 50 = rising prices), so prices rose again but at a somewhat smaller rate). a little up from 48.5

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

The Trump tariffs “are reshaping global supply chains and injecting a high degree of uncertainty into capital investment decisions, causing delays. It also has huge implications across the GE global supply chain with regard to the management of their support and spare parts network. What is going on?

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. TuffAir’s site states that it plans to launch in the fall, “with high performance aircraft, lean operations and a scalable model to connect overlooked freight corridors across the Midwest. July 9, 2025 Ohio-based startup TuffAir has sued Amazon over claims related to intellectual property.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. However, plans for nearly all of the new chargers were likely underway before the Trump administration began gutting EV incentives, according to BloombergNEF analyst Ash Wang. What do you say? The lower an energy consumption rating, the greater the returns a carrier gets out of a battery-electric truck.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ). Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. What will happen in 2016?

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Freightos

AUGUST 10, 2024

AI Popup #3) AI Popup #3 August 10, 2024 Dive deeper into freight data that matters Learn More For anyone who has played around with ChatGPT or Midjourney, it’s now clear that AI has the potential to be an incredible tool for enhancing efficiency and productivity. Again, this takes careful and meticulous training.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Narrow AI is goal-orientated Artificial Intelligence designed to solve specific issues, such as determining stock levels or planning promotions based on events or weather. We have this today in most supply chain planning solutions. I don’t think that the answer is faster planning or better engines.

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