Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Many of the world’s largest companies have committed to reaching net zero by 2050, triggering a ripple effect throughout global supply chains. For most CPG brands, indirect emissions — those that occur across the supply chain — represent the majority of their carbon footprint. Retailers are following suit. In the U.S.,

Rail Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

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.

Freight

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

For supply chains, AI offers new paradigms and approaches, delivering streamlined processes and results that are unprecedented. AI is about more than fixing problems — its fundamentally changing how supply chains operate. billion in 2023 to $63.77 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 11.7%.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Understanding how your Procurement and Supply Chain KPIs are performing isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential for survival and growth. Why You Need Visibility of Supply Chain and Procurement KPIs? Running procurement and supply chain without metrics is like driving blindfolded.

Pricing Training

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

No matter the focus, whether cost reduction and quality improvement, or supply chain optimization and resilience, procurement must have a concrete role in delivering outcomes that matter to the business. Instead, focus on metrics such as cost avoidance, on-time delivery rates, or percentage of spend on supplier diversity.

Material Savings

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

No matter the focus, whether cost reduction and quality improvement, or supply chain optimization and resilience, procurement must have a concrete role in delivering outcomes that matter to the business. Instead, focus on metrics such as cost avoidance, on-time delivery rates, or percentage of spend on supplier diversity.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Still, it can be just as disruptive to supply chain performance. Unlike other areas of the supply chain, fleet management lacks a structured leadership development pipeline. Stable leadership strengthens the supply chain overall. On day one. And when they struggle?

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

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Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 31, 2025

1 Supply Chain Disruptions The past several years have underscored the fragility of global supply chains, as geopolitical conflicts, natural disasters and labor shortages have continually tested resilience. These disruptions, often unpredictable and rapidly evolving, demand an OMS that is both flexible and integrative.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Successfully navigating this environment requires not just operational discipline, but also agility, strong local partnerships and resilient supply chain design. With a two-player market, ocean rates are less flexible, requiring shippers to find other ways in their supply chain to negotiate lower costs.

Hawaii

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2025

Supply Chain Crisis Management is the systematic approach to identifying, preventing, and responding to major disruptions in your supply chain operations. Key components include: Risk Assessment and Monitoring You need real-time visibility into your entire supply chain.

Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

The program was made possible by funding from DHL Supply Chain. Each activity also includes a Future Focus section, helping girls connect what they’re learning to real-world careers, and opening their eyes to exciting possibilities in supply chain, logistics, engineering and tech.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Procurement professionals can contribute significantly to the S&OP process by providing valuable insights into supply chain dynamics, identifying potential risks, and optimizing sourcing strategies. Help Forecast Upstream Supply Constraints Early Warning Signs: S&OP can identify potential demand increases.

S&OP

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

Which Metrics Matter? Still, a few metrics consistently rose to the top of the conversation, signals that seem to cut across company size, geography, and service model. Still, a few metrics consistently rose to the top of the conversation, signals that seem to cut across company size, geography, and service model.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

Twenty twenty-five is starkly different: the next global war has already begun, and it’s unfolding not on distant battlefields, but right through the supply chains that you rely on. Your supply chain is already directly in the line of fire. Trade Representative.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2025

In other words, it’s challenging for companies to create resilient, agile and cost-effective supply chains when so many things are so uncertain. A good supply chain will have optionality built into its planning horizon. Also, it is difficult to quickly analyze the options around the range of possibilities.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

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.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

The warehouse, meanwhile, has been elevated from afterthought to a central player, as new demands and responsibilities are placed on supply chains — from small-batch wave picking and reverse logistics to deeper supplier collaboration, and tariff and sustainability compliance. Just be prepared for anything and keep going.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

If we put that into a business context and start asking generative AI or agentic AI to make a major decision about how to reorient our supply chain, that is incredibly risky," says Wood. Wood says companies must first be moved away from manual and reactive processes to more automation and supply chain optimization.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

Zebra Navigating the Future of Demand Forecasting More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Cost Reduction Strategies

John Galt

JULY 29, 2025

Customer Portal Partner Portal Contact John Galt Solutions Atlas AI-driven SaaS platform that connects and orchestrates your entire supply chain. To help bridge this gap requires the ability to seamlessly integrate retail sales data and advanced supply chain analytics within a planning environment.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

By fostering these relationships, businesses can ensure stable supply chains, consistent quality, and even access to supplier innovations. According to a McKinsey report, firms that develop strong supplier partnerships are 35% less likely to experience significant supply disruptions. Click here!

Optimal Sourcing

Freight Waves

JULY 1, 2025

Each had various types of fleets paired with a complex multi layered internal supply chain, requiring telematics and machine learning to improve efficiency. Springs said, “We’re seeing consistent increases in safety metrics.” The improvement also extends to community safety and transparency.

Optimization Software

RFgen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Key components of mobile inventory management include: Smartphone app: Allows field agents to log information, analyze metrics, and manage tasks even in remote areas with limited connectivity. Consider the size of your inventory, the number of locations, and the complexity of your supply chain.

Inventory Management Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Jassy called generative AI a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that will change the way the company operates, and said Amazon is already using it in “virtually every corner of the company,” calling out the supply chain areas of inventory and demand planning as examples. The Fed Downgrades GDP Forecast.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

Such a model, based on prioritizing unit economies and production at scale, doesn’t prepare manufacturers and retailers for the waves of disruption that are washing over global supply chains today. Enter the concept of the “microfactory.” All of that theoretically lends itself to the creation of smaller, more nimble facilities.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Late payments are the silent disruptor that’s eroding trust, liquidity and operational continuity across the supply chain. Supply chains don’t operate in silos. Supply chains are built on trust and timing. Each tier, from raw-material providers to logistics firms, relies on predictable, timely cash flow.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Other users of the information will be retailers and their supply chains, as well as government authorities seeking to uphold export regulations, according to Megan Brewster, vice president of advanced technology with Impinj , a manufacturer of radio frequency identification devices.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

What can supply chain leaders do to mitigate these risks? AI chatbots are beneficial, but they have room for improvement, so supply chain executives should understand the pros and cons and deploy them with caution. Those are expensive mistakes for any supply chain executive to make. Customers Like AI.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

So argues Greg Petro, CEO of First Insight , a retail platform that uses AI analysis of consumer feedback to predict demand, determine pricing thresholds and model scenarios around, for example, differing tariff levels or supply chain bottlenecks. Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain?

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

Yet the complex supply chains behind those therapies are increasingly vulnerable. A System Under Strain The fragility of the medication supply chain isn’t theoretical; it’s happening in real time. In a 2022 ASHP survey, 99.7% of pharmacists reported experiencing shortages of critical sterile injectables.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

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Fort Worth

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

Traceability has to run through every stage of a global supply chain, which can be frustratingly opaque, given the number of players and transformations that a given product undergoes. And certain clothing brands such as Patagonia base their very identity on the maintenance of ethical supply chains.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

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Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

Punching Through Your Packaging Process More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Packaging

John Galt

JULY 22, 2025

Customer Portal Partner Portal Contact John Galt Solutions Atlas AI-driven SaaS platform that connects and orchestrates your entire supply chain. Inventory optimization is one of the most visible places where organizations expect to see a return from supply chain investments. You implemented the processes.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 30, 2025

Subscribe What is the Digital Supply Chain? These solutions offer features that streamline collaboration in fast-paced environments, such as: Hosting high-quality video calls with large participant capacities. This technology tracks key metrics such as task completion rates or time spent on activities.

Supply Chain Design Software