Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. Gartner says that, with the exception of high-performing organizations, 40% of logistics leaders cite the struggle to realize value from existing technology investments What do you say? Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

What do you say? 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. While it does improve individual productivity, that productivity isn’t adding up at the department or group level.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

What do you say? Aronow cites one CSCO who concluded it was better to spend less time guessing about what comes next and more on the ability for their supply chain to pivot quickly. This approach can work,” Aronow says, “but only after the CFO and business leaders agree to invest in additional and flexible sources of supply.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

What do you say? But as usual in these types of robot stories, Amazon also tells the Journal that the automation is for some workers has meant replacing menial, repetitive work lifting cases with more skilled assignments managing the machines. I Amazon Robot” indeed.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

What do you say? At previous Gartner conferences, when asking around a bit, I found - not surprisingly - that very few supply chain practitioners have any real idea how the list is determined. This year Schneider Electric came out on top for the third straight year - sort of. Why does Gartner do this? Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

First published in 2007, this classic reflection contrasts two distribution centers to show how mutual respect drives better results, stronger culture, and lower turnover. This article, originally published in 2007, offers insight into the value that problem-solving brings to corporate culture. How do you show respect?”

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

What do you say? NMFTA says the new “Cybersecurity Cargo Crime Reduction Framework” is an actionable guide for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers and brokers that It outlines key steps parties can take to reduce cargo theft risk. These tech-driven schemes are harder to detect — and far more costly.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

What do you say? 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. Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

What do you say? Supply Chain Digest Says. Drewry notes that for a spot-rate shipper exporting or importing on the East-West routes will find that, on average, a container shipment’s cost can vary by about $1,400.

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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. What do you say? Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

There were many other important stories so far this year - what did I leave out? There were many other important stories so far this year - what did I leave out? What do you say? Here, my choices for the top or most interesting stories by month in the first half of the 2025: Gilmore Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

What do you say? Meanwhile, our supply chain and logistics stock index, which is made up of more than 20 stocks across freight carriers, logistics service providers, and supply chain hardware and software vendors, lagged the S&P, with a gain of just 10.3% Gilmore Says. in the past year.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

What do you say? The year-over-year increase slowed to 0.6% in May from 0.9% in April, as modest positive rate momentum in the truckload market stalled. Click here to send us your comments The Cass report showed May shipment volumes in the US were down 3.4%seasonally seasonally adjusted versus April. The shipments index also declined 4.0%

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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. What do you say? Again this year, Penske Logistics funded the report development. Gilmore Says. billion in 2023.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

What do you say? A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls. A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

What do you say? Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? After a relatively calm 2024, the start of 2025 was characterized by the Trump administration’s tariff bingo, leaving markets across the globe unsettled. That would only give a complete perspective with all the players in the pool.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

What do you say? That is what is happening right now,” Mortimer says. What is going on? The industry, Mortimer claims, continues to talk about decarbonization as though its something we are working towards. Instead, they travel thousands of miles further around the Cape of Good Hope. Not operationally. Not mentally.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

What do you say? 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. 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.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

What do you say? a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 in May, but falling below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction for 30 out of the last 32 months. Supply Chain Digest Says. The situation remains too volatile to firmly put such plans into place.“ That was also 1.2 percentage points from the 56.1

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

What do you say? What is going on? The message from Interact Analysis is clear: the mobile robot industry is still growing, but not as fast or as smoothly as once expected,” Sharma concludes. “The Interact reduced its AMR forecast for 2025 by $800 million, with lower growth predicted in each of the major regions.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Earlier this year at the JDA FOCUS 2015 conference , I led a panel discussion on the third-party logistics (3PL) industry that featured Rick Jordon , SVP Regional Head of Logistics – Americas at Panalpina , and other 3PL executives. Two things customers should look for when evaluating 3PLs.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

What do you say? July 9, 2025 Ohio-based startup TuffAir has sued Amazon over claims related to intellectual property. 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.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

What do you say? Electric Charging Station Installs Soar in Q2 According to a report from Transport Topics this week, 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the US in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom on record, according to Department of Energy data. Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. What will happen in 2016? Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Those savvy shippers who either find those resources internally or are doing what a lot of shippers are now doing, outsourcing to a transportation management service provider , are using a more strategic and effective transportation management approach as a competitive advantage tool, in the ever-challenging economic and commercial landscape.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

One reason may be that they haven’t made the paradigm shift as to how to implement lean. Creating a smooth flow of products downstream in a lean supply chain requires all departments and functions in the organization to work in collaboration. o Inventory—inactive raw, work-in-process, or finished goods. Reduce Lead Time.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 28, 2014

With growing consumer expectations for faster delivery, shippers are expecting value-added logistics services from 3PL operators. This increases the urgency for 3PLs to leverage on the best market trends to increase logistics flexibility. What are the greatest challenges 3PLs currently face?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 25, 2016

If cost reduction is not the only thing to measuring supply chain performance, that begs the questions: "Maybe we should be measuring other Supply Chain Management activities and what would they be?". What about measuring working capital in the Supply Chain? What kinds of "time" measurements exist? Isn’t time important?

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 9, 2016

The rationale for outsourcing certain manufacturing and supply chain processes, such as transportation management, fulfillment, and more to logistics companies is evident and clear. Recently, the Global Supply Chain Institute published a guide, “ Selecting and Managing a Third-Party Logistics Provider.”

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 16, 2017

The freight capacity crunch has dominated supply chain and logistics since 2014, and many shippers fear it will arrive sooner than many experts believe. Thus, shippers need to understand why it has not yet taken hold, why some experts believe it may still occur and what preventative actions are needed now to prepare.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 2, 2015

When it comes to efficient and cost-effective over the road transportation management , it is absolutely crucial that you be working with a trustworthy 3PL. Understanding the potential value of a 3PL early in the process is crucial to saving money and providing great service. What Is A 3PL?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

For the last couple of decades transportation management systems (TMS) have revolutionized supply chains, helping companies streamline their logistics processes, achieve greater visibility into their operations and save significant dollars on transportation. Myth #1 – Deploying a TMS on a wide scale is too slow and too costly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. . My goal of the trip was to gain new insights.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When it comes to effective and profitable road transport management, it is undeniably crucial you get a reliable 4PL provider to handle your logistics. First, understand the difference between 3PL and 4PL in logistics. What is 4PL? What is 4PL? How Does A 4PL Benefit My Business?

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Turvo

AUGUST 20, 2020

Prior to the onset of the pandemic, the value of a third-party logistics provider (3PL) was increasing. According to Supply & Demand Chain Executive , a new Global Market Insights Inc. report found that the global 3PL market would surpass $1,800 billion by 2026. Outsourcing to a 3PL is Expensive.

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