ShipBob

MARCH 3, 2025

With so many moving parts to running an ecommerce business, youll probably build a tech stack of several different apps, platforms, and solutions to power your operations. The software automatically pulls inventory data from your warehouse for a real-time stock count update across all your sales channels.

Procurement Solutions

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

If you want to set a fulfillment strategy for the next five to 10 years, you need flexibility without downtime. So the solution has to be flexible and modular, because the market is flexible and modular.” Board execs are strained by the conversation around, ‘How do we purchase more, get a bigger footprint?’

Supply Chain Design Software

Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

And on our direct imports over the last several years, we've reduced the share from China north of 90% to currently below 70%, and we're on track to be closer to 50% by year-end. Recall, we purchased targeted additional inventory in late fiscal '25 and early fiscal '26, ahead of tariffs.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. The DPP “represents a significant advance in product transparency and sustainability,” according to an EU report published in September of 2024. “The

Manufacturing Procurement

Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

With the new year on the horizon, we’re finalizing 2025 supply chain strategies for our most important customers. In order to offer savings to their customers, Aldi uses strategy and innovation to control costs. A crucial part of the process is the logistics of delivering your freight to CVS distribution centers.

Retail

SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

This shift has pushed supply chain leadership to pivot from reactive management to proactive strategy built on data. Integrating Analytics Into Every Tier Analytics must penetrate every layer of the supply chainfrom procurement to last-mile delivery. Organizations must anticipate risk, adapt faster, and recover smarter.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

Cathy Roberson

JUNE 9, 2025

The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles. As a result of these efforts, we have multiple tools in place to address any challenges.

Negotiating Skills

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

While many logistics service providers commenced as transport companies, they have diversified to engage in contract warehousing logistics, freight forwarding plus many other value adding services. Alas, in some cases, there is no supply chain strategy to speak of. But what about cost of service?

Warehousing

Ware2Go

APRIL 7, 2025

Just-in-time inventory provides a solution that has transformed supply chain operations. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory is a lean supply chain strategy designed to minimize waste and reduce inventory carry costs by replenishing stock as-needed to meet demand rather than holding safety stock (known as Just in Case inventory).

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

In a recent blog post, Tunca had this to say: “CSCOs must develop an organizational structure to support the management of growing fleets of robots by creating a warehouse automation strategy.” Using the right tools to do the right job is important and SCM is heavily dependent on sophisticated ERP systems to get right real data info ASP.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

First, the immediate benefits for warehouses: reducing shortages and incorrect reorder points, eliminating the stress and cost of emergency orders, and minimizing the chance of losing customers due to unfulfilled promises. But just as important, the units directly cut working capital needs.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

Garner says that successful organizations should focus on the following actions: Prioritize long-term digital strategy over short-term goals Gartner says that as logistics continues to transform technologies, processes and people, the need for high-quality data and decision-making capabilities is growing.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. Freight volumes were mixed but mostly down, as the “freight recession” continued on now for more than two years. growth for all 2025, 2.8% for overall global growth, and 4.0% compared to 2024.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Use them to align plans with your company’s longer-term North Star strategies. Use them to align plans with your company’s longer-term North Star strategies and frame investments in the context of addressing multiple business objectives. Supply Chain Digest Says. Aronow says to start by investing in organizational storytelling skills.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

The growing level of robotic automation has driven productivity gains at Amazon facilities, which reduces fulfillment costs, which in turn also helps the company deal with labor shortages and high turnover levels at its fulfillment centers. I agree that companies choose the 'safe' solution more often than not.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

Gartner

Freight Waves

JUNE 29, 2025

The USMCA “positions Mexico as a reliable alternative for companies seeking to reduce exposure to trade friction and long lead times from overseas markets,” according to Uber Freight’s 2025 Q2 Market Update. might slow down a little bit, but it is not going away,” Jose Guerrero, Uber Freight’s director of U.S. Nearshoring.

Mexico

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

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.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Then they ask what should be done about the problem and ask employees why they have proposed one solution instead of another. This generally requires considering a range of solutions and collecting more evidence.) Large amounts of confusion about what to do next and larger amounts of rework are eliminated. What is the result?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

CSCOs, he says, should reassess existing supplier networks, confirm the viability of current mitigation plans, and address any overreliance on specific geographies to reduce exposure and ensure business continuity. Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2. Contingency planning for alternative ports is essential.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

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.”

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

In the way the analyst business worked then and largely still does, Meta considered if any current vendor clients might provide any good candidates, and I am told Klappich’s name emerged early on, and he was hired not long after. But in 2005 Gartner acquired Meta, and Klappich’s career and industry profile took off.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

Supply Chain Design Software

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?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

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. Supply Chain Digest Says.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

As can be seen, it was a mixed year for our supply chain software stocks, with some big winners, including software firm Kinaxsis (up 149.9%) and Oracle (up 64.4%). Gilmore Says. What do you say? Click here to send us your comments The overall market, as measured by the S&P 500 index, was up a solid 13.4% in the past year.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

"Other" costs - always somewhat vague, and mostly involving certain IT expenses and some services such as freight forwarding, were up 2.8%, though this bucket is by far the smallest of the three main categories at just 7.0% CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

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. It is fortunate that this industry offers a wide variety of outstanding hardware and software.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

He founded a new freight company called “Federal Express,” to denote his national ambitions. As you noted, however, this time the placement was for “IoT Platforms,” a category of software tools from a good number of vendors to manage connectivity, data communications and more with IoT-enabled devices in the field.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Mortimer again claims that early tests results show up to 20% better fuel performance, and marked reductions in greenhouse gases, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides. He adds: “The emissions spike we’re seeing today is the result of years of underinvestment in meaningful, near-term solutions. The tools exist. What do you say?

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Any vendors briefing Klappich found out fast enough he was a real straight shooter, and that a hype approach wouldn’t get you very far. That also led Klappich to recently define a new category of software, which Gartner calls a Multiagent Orchestration Platform (MAOP) for managing mobile robots in warehousing and manufacturing. (

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 2025

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. a little up from 48.5

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Interact reduced its AMR forecast for 2025 by $800 million, with lower growth predicted in each of the major regions. Companies are holding back on large-scale automation investments, wary of shifting trade policies and uncertainty over both their own costs and the fiscal health of customers and vendors.”

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

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. TuffAir argues that its strategy is unique and is designed to facilitate cheaper, faster regional air transit for freight. ( What do you say?

Supply Chain Design Software