SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2025

Perhaps a critical supplier goes out of business, a natural disaster halts shipments, or new regulations are introduced that throw a wrench in your entire process. Operational risks: Supplier bankruptcies, poor quality control, or delays in logistics. Use analytics tools to monitor supplier performance and spot red flags early.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Improving Forecast Accuracy and Supplier Relationships Inventory planning often relies on historical sales trends. With MIS training, supply professionals can layer external variables such as seasonal behavior, economic data, or transportation metrics into predictive models. This minimizes strain on suppliers and builds trust.

Vendor Strategies

Precoro

JULY 1, 2025

Definition: Vendor relations is a strategic practice of cultivating productive, long-term relationships with suppliers. When done right, it’s beneficial for both sides: vendors get a reliable client, while companies benefit from a stable supply chain, consistent product quality, better pricing, and room to grow and collaborate.

Negotiating Skills

QAD

MAY 22, 2025

Strategic management in this area can yield substantial savings and build stronger supplier relationships. Procurement teams should build long-term, collaborative relationships with key direct suppliers. When costs rise, companies particularly larger ones may try and pass the total cost increase onto suppliers.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Its purpose is to avoid unethical and harmful behavior that can lead to fines, supplier issues, and reputational damage. For example, if your company is ordering raw materials from a supplier abroad, it must comply with customs regulations and chemical and safety standards. Expired supplier certifications.

Procurement Analytics

Ware2Go

MARCH 27, 2025

This can result from theft, damage, administrative errors, or supplier fraud. Shrinkage impacts profitability and operational efficiency, which makes it an essential metric for businesses to track, while actively finding means to prevent it. Supplier Fraud – Deliveries with missing or incorrect items can lead to unaccounted losses.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Initially, robot management will operate as a distinct role within supply chain.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

It was a slight down six months for oil prices in the first half of the year. It was mostly down from there until the end of May, when the price surged to about $75.0, It was mostly down from there until the end of May, when the price surged to about $75.0, US on-the-road diesel prices were flattish, starting the year at $3.56

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? The blog ends with a pitch to readers to attend a symposium.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Gartner

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

These costs cascade through the supply chain, raising consumer prices and squeezing profit margins. According to a National Retail Federation study , a 10% tariff on imported apparel can increase retail prices by 3% to 5%. An estimated 60% of U.S. Beyond the U.S., Automotive For Ford Motor Co.,

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

Increased tariffs mean higher prices for raw materials and finished goods, but shipping, storage and handling costs often increase too, which threatens small- to midsized business (SMB) profitability — especially when up against larger competitors with more resources. Higher prices can alienate loyal buyers.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Suppliers will respond when they are made part of the team, and they have a lot to bring to the game.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Click here to send us your comments Gonzalez noted that “while many supply chain leaders have already invested in collaborative supplier relationships and risk mitigation, ongoing trade disruptions and regional tensions require a renewed focus.” Supply chain leaders should engage partners to identify and manage new shipping options.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Cargo

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 Digest Says.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

That price would represent about a 23% premium to Norfolk Southern’s stock before the first reports of a potential deal this month. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Bloomberg News reported previously that a transaction could be announced as soon as this week.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

In addition to the broad plan for tariffs, the Trump administration announces a regime for fees on Chinese-made ships docking at US ports, in a move designed to aid the flagging US ship building sector. May Large supply chain software vendor E2Open announces that it is being acquired by Australian shipping software firm WiseTech.

Supply Chain Design Software

EFT

MAY 19, 2025

Container ship owners swamped as US-China trade detente revives demand Container ship bookings for China-to-U.S. port fees on Chinese vessels French shipping group CMA CGM will reorganise its global fleet to avoid U.S. retailers including Walmart (WMT.N) Cattle futures surge over US halt to Mexican cattle imports U.S.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 30, 2025

President Donald Trump earlier in June said negotiations with China yielded an agreement for Beijing to swiftly approve export licenses for rare earths. The coveted raw materials are deeply embedded in cars, iPhones and other products and China has used its dominance to exert leverage in the negotiations. China trade talks.

China

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Pre-tariff shipping was not enough to tighten the market balance even as seasonality improved in May,” Denoyer said. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. In May, the Linehaul Index fell 0.5% month-over-month. The year-over-year increase slowed to 0.6%

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4 Parcel shipping costs were estimated at $229.7 The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Reputable suppliers are ready, willing and able to properly support the many aspects of bar coding. KEY POINT: Deal with suppliers that have extensive systems experience as well as in-depth knowledge on bar code and other automatic identification technologies. However, it is important to understand that bar coding is not a system.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Add to that the new battle in the Middle East, with its risk of expansion, potentially impacting oil prices and more, and there is a lot to be worried about. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

The early years were rough, both due to Smith’s personal troubles (a lawsuit by his half-sisters and a hit-and-run incident for which charges were later dropped) and high fuel prices from the 1973 OPEC embargo. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

He said it would bring “huge benefits to both of our countries,” boosting wages, raising living standards and bringing down prices to consumers. The pact comes after three years of intense negotiations touching on thorny topics such as visas, tariff reductions and tax breaks.

India

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. What is going on?

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Gartner

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Trump began notifying trading partners of new rates on July 7, ahead of a July 9 deadline for countries to wrap up negotiations with his administration — and posted to social media that he planned to release “a minimum of 7” letters on the morning of July 9, with additional rates to be posted in the afternoon.

Brazil

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

State-owned China Cosco Shipping Corp. was negotiating a powerful role for itself as a condition to join the consortium, Bloomberg News reported last week. Cosco Shipping Holdings Co., Hence, the deal may not fetch the best price that the company hopes for,” he said. The stock closed 0.84% lower in Hong Kong on July 28.

China

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

The Prices Index remained in expansion (or increasing) territory, registering 69.7, reported in May (above 50 = rising prices), so prices rose again but at a somewhat smaller rate). The Supplier Deliveries Index indicated slower delivery performance, though the pace picked up somewhat: The reading of 54.2 recorded in May.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Analysis