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

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Build strong supplier partnerships for long-term stability. Supplier Financial Instability: Bankruptcy or operational shutdowns of key vendors. Supplier Financial Instability: Bankruptcy or operational shutdowns of key vendors. Logistics & Transportation Failures: Port congestion, rising freight costs, and fuel shortages.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Strong supplier agreements and pricing structures depend on consistent leadership. When management shifts frequently, relationships with vendors and service providers become unstable, leading to potential renegotiation delays, lost bulk pricing, and inconsistent service levels. Impact on vendor relationships.

Negotiating Skills

Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

Negotiate better contract terms. For example, companies can negotiate a contract that reduces the per-unit price from $5 to $4.50 Achieved through strategies like bulk purchasing, supplier consolidation, and procurement process automation. Identify unnecessary spending. and achieve an immediate, lasting cost decrease.

Cost Reduction Strategies

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

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

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Warehousing

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

As an example, Gartner cites the 94% of supply chain logistics leaders that either currently have a supply chain management transportation system or plan to deploy one in the next one or two years. ( link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

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

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Freightos

JUNE 12, 2025

With massive datasets behind decisions and external factors like volatility, benchmarking trends, supplier performance, and more, the procurement profession now requires a different skill set—more analytical, with deeper interactions with a limited number of trusted suppliers.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

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. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. We have to keep this in mind.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2. What do you say? Prepare CFOs for continued supply chain cost volatility 3.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Since early 2025, the US Surface Transportation Board, the federal regulatory agency overseeing railroads, has signaled a more industry-friendly approach to merger reviews. That price would represent about a 23% premium to Norfolk Southern’s stock before the first reports of a potential deal this month. Supply Chain Digest Says.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

P&G also said that it is likely to raise prices as one of several steps to offset the impact of tariffs on its costs amid a “challenging and volatile environment.” The idea is that the package delivery robots will be transported in Amazon’s fleet of Rivian electric vans and will soon be ready to start real-world testing at a new facility.

Supply Chain Design Software

EFT

MAY 19, 2025

Egypt's Suez Canal offers 15% discount for big container ships to win back trade Egypt's Suez Canal will offer a 15% discount on transit fees for container ships with net tonnage of at least 130,000 metric tons, to encourage trade back now the security situation has eased and help ships offset rising insurance costs, its authorities said on Tuesday.

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

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

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 of total transport costs and 38.5% of total transport costs and 8.9% of transportation spend – down from 6.1% With overall transport costs rising 8.7% Gilmore Says.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

The trade war is likely to extend the for-hire freight recession further as higher prices reduce goods affordability and consumers’ real incomes.” ( See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON Each month, Cass nicely summarizes the state of freight, as seen in the graphic below for May: Source: Cass An y reaction to thi s Cass report?

Supply Chain Design 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 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. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! We have to keep this in mind.

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. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.

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

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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?

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

was negotiating a powerful role for itself as a condition to join the consortium, Bloomberg News reported last week. Hence, the deal may not fetch the best price that the company hopes for,” he said. State-owned China Cosco Shipping Corp.

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