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The Role of Supply Chain Planning in Today’s Complex Business Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the past five years, supply chains have faced unprecedented challenges. E-commerce demands, trade pressures, and increasingly complex supplier networks have necessitated executives to raise concerns about their supply chain operations. Who is responsible for Supply Chain Planning?

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Mathematical Optimization: Supply Chain Management by the Numbers

Supply Chain Brain

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. By itself, the word “optimize” doesn’t mean anything specific. “A The word “perfect,” of course, can be misleading.

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AI-Tuned Pricing and Inventory Strategies are the Way Forward for Retailers

Supply Chain Brain

By harnessing the growing power of AI to not only sense demand at a very fine-grain, real-time level, but also to govern decisions about pricing and inventory. And that’s not forecasting; it’s modeling. That’s what AI is capable of doing. The human brain has limitations. It also has great, unlimited imagination.

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Pricing Power: The Most Effective Weapon During Trade Wars

Supply Chain Brain

The challenge is compounded by the comparatively slow digital transformation in the supply chain and distribution sector, with many organizations remaining dependent on pricing systems that are either fully or partially manual. As the speed of trade policy changes continues to escalate, spreadsheets simply cannot keep up.

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Outsmart Disruption with AI: Three Strategies for Supply Chain Resilience

Supply Chain Brain

Breaking Down Business Silos Supply chains don’t exist in isolation. To truly build resilience across the entire organization — including supply chain and logistics — businesses need to remove the internal silos that can lead to restricted data flow and collaboration. It all starts with adaptability.

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Why the Future of Freight Is Multimodal

Supply Chain Brain

To keep operations and supply chains stable amid the volatility of today’s global trade dynamics, companies need a freight strategy that can flex under pressure. Multimodal in Practice At a basic level, multimodal shipping can refer to using two or more distinct modes — such as truck, rail, air or ocean — in a single supply chain.

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Five Strategies for Managing Supply Chain Uncertainty

IQMS

But geopolitical rivalries and an emerging wave of tariffs are introducing new levels of supply chain uncertainty. Compounding the challenge are information gaps across supply chains that can cost manufacturers lost time, productivity, margin erosion, price reductions, and missed shipment dates. Create an index of supply chain metrics.