RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Customer Satisfaction: Faster order fulfillment, fewer shipping errors, and improved order accuracy lead to happier customers. Outsourcing to a 3PL can provide access to advanced warehousing technologies, optimized logistics networks, and specialized expertise in areas such as inventory management, transportation, and order fulfillment.

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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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

A data fabric does not store data itself; it connects and provides access to data from diverse sources without physically moving or duplicating it. It accesses, transforms, and harmonizes data from multiple sources to make it usable and actionable for various business use cases. This is an impressive feat that sounds almost magical.

SAP 216

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The explosion in globalisation, and corresponding reduction in transport availability over the last decade or so, have together kiboshed some of the factors which once fueled a steady growth in offshore manufacture and procurement. Let me show you why.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent.

Supply Chain Planning Software 221

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ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

Behind the scenes of every successful business lies a well-orchestrated machine made up of four critical functions: supply chain, logistics, transportation, and operations. What Is Transportation? Real-World Example: Amazon’s two-day delivery is a result of highly optimized logistics, not just fast transportation.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times.

Sourcing Strategies 96

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Todays supply chains span thousands of miles, cross continents and oceans, rely on multiple modes of transportation, and involve many supplier tiers. Geopolitical tensions, rising fuel costs, driver shortages, blocked shipping lanes and frequent supply chain disruptions make it tough to achieve reliable on-time delivery amid this complexity.

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Freight Waves

JULY 10, 2025

The Future of Freight Festival, now in its fourth year, is FreightWaves’ flagship event designed to convene industry experts, entrepreneurs, and innovators to explore emerging trends in transportation, logistics. ports, trucking networks, and warehouses. Supply chain leaders have grappled with disruptions from events like the U.S.-China

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

How MES is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing and Boosting Production Efficiency What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a comprehensive, dynamic software system that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing goodsfrom raw materials to finished products.

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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. Here’s how.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just ask any manufacturer who’s had to halt production because a single critical component wasn’t available. 2) Diversify Your Operations The companies most likely to get through a crisis are those that have made an effort to diversify their operations and implement multi-sourcing strategies.

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Freight Waves

JULY 12, 2025

Chart of the Week: Import Ocean TEUs Volume Index – USA SONAR : IOTI.USA Booking volumes for container imports, as measured by the Inbound Ocean TEUs Volume Index (IOTI), appear to have peaked in early July—about a month ahead of the typical peak shipping season. trade and support domestic manufacturing. ports from around the world.

Purchasing Skills 125

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RFgen

JULY 8, 2025

For example, manufacturers relying on spreadsheets may overlook delays until production is interrupted. Legacy systems, particularly manual inventory tracking and outdated technologies, do not offer the speed or visibility needed for responsive decision making.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 24, 2025

Let me find new routes, new supply chain sources, new ideas. New York-based Interwoven Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technologies such as robotics and AI to transform the healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and transportation sectors.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Even the failure of a seemingly minor, geographically remote supplier can have substantial consequences if they provide a critical component used by multiple manufacturers. Higher Costs and Lower Profits: While recession may incur low demand, operational costs such as energy and transportation can remain high or fluctuate unpredictably.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lead time typically encompasses various supply chain stages, including order processing, manufacturing, transportation, and delivery. Production lead time: Also known as manufacturing lead time, it is the time required to complete a manufacturing process, from sourcing raw materials to completion of a finished product.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

He sees a near future in which there are multiple agents, each with their own realm of responsibility, such as shipping, pricing and forecasting. Koganti said this is the fastest-growing use of AI in supply chain, especially when it comes to forecasting, procurement and fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 11, 2025

Simultaneous impacts in either or both product demand, coupled with corresponding global or domestic transportation and logistics disruptions are among such learning especially during and since the global pandemic. Needs for real-time status of materials requires that data is continuously streaming from physical as well as digital sources.

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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.

Rail Software 91

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency. 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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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Californias role as a vital nexus for transportation, technology, and industrial machinery places manufacturing supply chains at significant risk from the ongoing wildfires. Source: Cal Fire) A Red Flag Warning zone, represented in pink, highlights areas where critical fire weather conditions are expected.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 17, 2025

And it provides retailers and direct-to-consumer (D2C) manufacturers with limitless access to shoppers around the world. The explosive growth of e-commerce also creates significant logistics challenges for retailers and D2C manufacturers. They need to offer low-cost or free shipping and returns, while also protecting margins.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Improve collaboration between suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics partners. Businesses need to identify vulnerabilities in their networks, from supplier dependencies to transportation delays. These include alternative sourcing strategies, backup transportation routes, and emergency inventory reserves.

Supply Chain Planning Software 91

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Therefore, optimizing spare parts management is crucial for the success of supply chain, manufacturing, and maintenance operations. Sourcing Procurement of spare parts is complex, requiring careful consideration of factors such as customer demand, supplier risks, compliance, and delivery times.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 13, 2025

The actors involved (suppliers, manufacturers, products, vendors, retailers, transport companies, among others) must collaborate. Geopolitical conflicts, social changes, new market conditions, or adverse weather conditions are sources of disruption in supply chains that must be taken into account.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 6, 2025

A sudden supplier shutdown, transport delays, or a missed delivery can throw everything off balance. Build Supplier Diversity Into the Strategy A strong procurement ecosystem doesn’t rely on just one source. These backup sources should be capable of meeting both quality and delivery standards at short notice.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

Consumers have embraced e-commerce for price comparisons, ease of purchase anytime and anywhere, and for those participating in subscription services such as Amazon Prime, free shipping, and other benefits. However, transportation and logistics costs can be prohibitive. All cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

This study identified the five most disrupted industries in 2024 to be Life Sciences , Healthcare , General Manufacturing , High Tech , and Automotive , marking the fourth year in a row that these particular industries have been the most impacted. government as well as potential retaliatory measures by other countries.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

That stated, in certain regions such as across Europe and China , the year continues to present economic and manufacturing challenges. That was because global wide ocean container shipping lines had so many new ships entering service this year, that this added capacity was able to buffer more immediate impacts.

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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. Time to Start Preparing for the Digital Product Passport SCB FEATURE Selling Into the EU?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

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Warehousing 71

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

Food manufacturers need to look at signals such as the price of commodities and patterns of consumer demand to plan their buying based on outside-in bidirectional orchestration. These levers could be alternate sourcing, alternate routing, changes of push-pull decoupling points, or even changes to the product portfolio.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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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. While market growth is exciting, it’s typically accompanied by growing pains. In my recent blog post about the U.S.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

Open-Source Components A lot of IT tools are built on open-source code. If hackers insert a bug or backdoor into a popular open-source library, that flaw spreads into every product that uses it. Attackers can tamper with hardware or firmware during manufacturing or shipping. The source? But it’s also a risk.

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