Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

For logistics professionals, this translates to smarter warehouse layouts, more accurate transportation planning, proactive maintenance scheduling, and a new level of resilience through cost-to-serve optimization. This article explores how digital twins are being deployed in transportation, warehousing, and network design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 2, 2025

CLM changed its name twenty years ago to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) to be more inclusive of the source, plan, and make aspects of supply chain management. Labor shortages in warehousing persist as a significant issue, with a vacancy rate of 7.4%. The Global Pressure Index Which is it?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. With the global e-commerce market predicted to reach $8.1

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. billion globally, and I forecast it to grow to $9.9 We define the market as those warehouse automation providers responsible for delivery of the system to the end-user (to eliminate double-counting). billion in 2019.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Mark joined InterSystems in 2021 to broaden InterSystems global market in supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

ARC Advisory Group’s Global Warehouse Automation Research study is now complete and available for purchase. The research process includes an analysis of large amounts of information and interviews with executives from numerous warehouse automation providers; and concludes with the publication of ARC’s research study.

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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. Navigating Supply Chain Disruptions Global disruptions often lead to delays at ports, congested rail yards, and increased transportation costs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 10, 2025

Authoritative Source for Industry News: Transport Topics has been a leading news source for the trucking and freight transportation industry since 1935, providing essential information for decision-making across the logistics and supply chain sectors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Mark joined InterSystems in 2021 to broaden InterSystems global market in supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As global supply chains continue to tackle ongoing disruptions, one major headwind that most organizations are faced with is the inflationary environment we are living through. The key to this lies with sourcing. Before diving further, let us define what sourcing is. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2023

I engaged in numerous discussions with robotics executives last year as I was developing ARC Advisory Group’s mobile warehouse robotics (AMR) research. CLINT: Mark, I came across many former Kiva Systems employees during my discussions with executives at warehouse robotics companies. Thankfully, he accepted my request.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 27, 2025

This week in supply chain and logistics news includes Blue Yonder being selected to support Border States, an electrical distribution company, with their warehouse management needs. Unifor represents over 2,100 DHL Express workers in Canada, including couriers, warehouse employees, and truck drivers. FedEx is continuing its Network 2.0

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Unprecedented levels of uncertainty and disruptions, market volatility, and rapidly evolving customer demands has exacerbated the challenge of data overload for global supply chains. Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Geopolitical instability, extreme weather, labor shortages, and fluctuating consumer demand regularly impact global logistics. This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions. Automated warehouse operations streamline order fulfillment, reducing dependency on manual labor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Meanwhile, LogiSYM Asia Pacific, a well-established event with over a decade of history, brought together professionals from supply chain, logistics, and shipping sectors for strategic discussions on resilience, digitalization, sustainability, and global trade dynamics. New exhibitors added fresh momentum to the mobile robotics segment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Industry-specific content is available for processes like Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and more. The platform leverages AI and Digital Technologies like RFID at Source (reducing receiving and packing time and chargebacks) and 2D barcodes/Digital Links to drive transparency and capture data for product circularity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Volatile markets, global disruptions, and the need for real-time insights are pushing traditional systems to their limits. data extractors, search APIs) to perform tasks, enabling them to dynamically adjust to new information and real-time knowledge sources. Colin Masson, ARC Advisory Groups expert on Industrial AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. Optimizing fulfillment requires a series of steps to get a shipment from its source to the end customer.

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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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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Supply chains are the backbone of global trade that ensure the smooth movement of goods and materials across industries. These include alternative sourcing strategies, backup transportation routes, and emergency inventory reserves. A hybrid approach with centralized and regional distribution centers provides better adaptability.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The global supply chain industry has by default, a large environmental impact, through its carbon footprint. As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. We pledge to adopt better ways of doing business with the aim of becoming an industry standard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Oracle’s recent global survey, No Planet B: How Can Businesses and Technology Help Save the World? Complexities integrating data from across global supply chains. Cloud applications that manage your supply chain provide real-time access—a single source of truth no matter where you are. Start with your supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

InterSystems is a rapidly growing global private company with nearly 2,000 employees and revenues of over $1 billion. That supply planning application needs to be integrated into an array of internal systems ERP, transportation management, warehouse management, procurement, and other applications. Decisions need to be digitized.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Earlier this month in the post titled What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? , According to our preliminary results, the most widespread tactics to be utilized in 2023 include planning and forecasting process improvements and sourcing of materials from more proximate/local suppliers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains. The trade war is now part of the “new normal,” and this has created a global ripple effect. Firms could store products that attract tariffs in bonded warehouses until they are required. This practice is illegal.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

It employs 450 million people globally, and contributes $1.45 It could do more to accelerate the journey of supply chain operations from the backroom to the boardroom than any other change. That’s because supply chain itself is huge, Koganti argued. In any given country’s economy, it represents around 20% to 30% of GDP. trillion to U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, Alex Pradhan, the global product strategy leader at John Galt Solutions, talks differently about what her company sees in the market. This creates a unified view by stitching together data sources in real time. Traditional integration involves moving data into a centralized repository like a data warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ve said it before (right here in Logistics Viewpoints), but it’s worth repeating: the digital transformation of our complex global supply chains is an ongoing journey. Supply Planning and Deployment : Will any intra-network disruptions cause imbalances in warehouse and transportation capacity? Why is this shift such a big deal?

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Freightos

JULY 7, 2025

Below, we dive into their key takeaways and explore five practical ways to make your logistics data actionable, with insights grounded in industry trends and high-authority sources. Yet, as Esch highlighted, even global companies struggle with data harmonization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. Uberization: Exploring On-Demand Transportation, Labor and Warehousing. then secure on-demand transportation, warehousing and labor assets dynamically, re-planning flexibly as conditions change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. Global Summit.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Many of the world’s largest companies have committed to reaching net zero by 2050, triggering a ripple effect throughout global supply chains. At the same time, global regulations are tightening. As these organizations act on their climate pledges, the responsibility to reduce emissions is cascading to suppliers at every level.

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ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from? This makes it essential that buyers understand where they are sourcing their products from and how that ultimately affects their brand. What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from?

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In todays volatile global landscape, wholesale distributors and aftermarket companies face an uphill battle to maintain service levels, manage costs, and ensure competitiveness. Optimize Distribution Networks Adapt warehouse locations and logistics for localized supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? The factors impacting broader supply chains extend all the way down to the warehouse floor. In fact, pressures are very similar with warehouse labor cost inflation, labor shortages, and inventory shortages at the top of the “concerns” list.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 23, 2025

Suketu is a partner and global chair for the Strategic Operations Practice at Kearney, a leading management consulting firm. About Suketu Ghandi Suketu Gandhi is a partner and global chair for the Strategic Operations Practice at Kearney, a leading management consulting firm.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.

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