Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 13, 2025

Hunt, BNSF and GMXT Launch Intermodal Freight Delivery Service in Mexico Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage The Top 8 EDI Myths - Debunked!

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Artificial Intelligence Robotics Customer Relationship Management Retail Related Articles IBM – The Power of Visibility: Are You Ready to Unleash Your Supply Chain Data? Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Watch: Supply Chain Planning in Times of Disruption More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I have summarized some of the key points in this document that I believe are important for supply chain executives to consider. It is also interesting that Mexico has FTAs with more than 57 countries. Various options exist under U.S. law to eliminate, reduce, or recover duties. manufacturers.

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EFT

JULY 1, 2025

US demand for China-made goods ebbs on tariff worries; ocean shipping rates drop Rates for shipping cargo containers from China to the U.S. Target explores factory-direct shipping model, Bloomberg News reports Target (TGT.N) Target explores factory-direct shipping model, Bloomberg News reports Target (TGT.N)

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 16, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides a series of industry specific postings addressing how constantly changing and uncertain U.S. import or reciprocal tariff strategies have impact on product demand and supply networks. import tariff exemptions granted to high tech and smartphone supply networks. or foreign based automakers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

From electronics manufacturers to retail giants, companies are grappling with a complex landscape of rising duties and other supply chain challenges. The stated aim of those measures is to bolster domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign supply chains. Tariffs also destabilize supply chain operations.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

For many, higher costs, supply chain delays, and unpredictable inventory flows are creating significant hurdles. Let customers know that tariffs are impacting raw material prices or shipping costs, and they’ll likely be more understanding. tariffs present major challenges for small manufacturers and e-commerce brands.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Mexico has unique, strategic advantages under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and a favorable trade environment, “This positions Mexico as a reliable alternative for companies seeking to reduce exposure to trade friction and long lead times from overseas markets,” the report’s authors said.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

Read More: Rethinking Supply Chain Strategies in a Time of Tariffs Tariffs have been particularly front-of-mind for shoppers, with nearly 30% reporting that theyve made online purchases earlier than planned over the last six months to get ahead of potential levies.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog provides summary themes of our soon to published 2025 annual predictions for industry and global supply chains. Themes and Perspectives We begin with a look back perspective toward our outlined themes during the prior two years.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Chemicals & Energy Industrial Manufacturing Related Articles Trump Heads Toward Tariff Barrage on Canada, Mexico, China U.S. Shipping Costs Threaten to Deliver a New Price Shock More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 29, 2025

Table of Contents Introduction A flurry of new tariffs threatens to disrupt global supply chains, increase costs, and create uncertainty for businesses worldwide. This article explores possible supply chain impacts, strategies to adopt, and how Exigers technology solutions can help your organization navigate this challenging landscape.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 15, 2025

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports of skyrocketing demand for customs brokers within the United States and elsewhere. This report specifically observes: Trump has substantially changed tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico at least a half-dozen times each. port from goods originating from Mexico.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Ship Traffic Through Red Sea Remains Sparse, Despite Houthi-U.S. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg June 13, 2025 Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund is seeing signs that the rise in trade and activity to front-run U.S. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 11, 2025

Navy Issues Rare Warning to Ships Near Vital Hormuz Strait U.K. Navy Issues Rare Warning to Ships Near Vital Hormuz Strait Two oil tankers are seen at a distance in the waters of Strait of Hormuz in Hormuz Island, Iran. Israel has also been attacking Yemen’s Houthi rebel group, which in turn has been menacing shipping in the Red Sea.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 6, 2025

requirements for the security of supply chains. Agree to Framework Trade Deal Bloomberg Red Sea Ship Set Ablaze, Abandoned After Attack Near Yemen More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Similar to provisions in a U.S.-UK UK framework deal signed in May, the draft U.S.-Switzerland Tariffs China, U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp’s Maturity in Supply Chain Design. Belcorp Corporation has actively worked to be a leader in ensuring that their people can effectively use a complex type of software known as supply chain design. It requires a company to further leverage the supply chain design philosophy. That is changing.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. However, you may wonder what kind of practices really work.

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ivalua

APRIL 22, 2021

While companies have capitalized on globalization over the last few decades, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed a number of weaknesses within supply chain and procurement industries. Avoid the Instability of International Supply Chains. This gives you greater control over the details involved in your supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chipotle’s push for humane chicken delayed amid tight supplies. Mexican factories gain in supply chain revamps. Staten Island workers could challenge the company’s current labor model, which is the backbone of its Prime two-day shipping promise. Walgreens to offer Wing drone delivery in suburban Dallas.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2021

Logistics and Supply Chain – 1940 to 2040 with Jason Miller. Jason Miller and Joe Lynch discuss logistics and supply chain, 1940 – 2040. Jason is a professor of supply chain at Michigan State University, which is ranked as one of the top supply chain schools in the world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Dave Elias, vice president of supply chain management, and Josh Stauffer, senior director of IT, spoke at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. They have implemented a broad suite of enterprise and supply chain applications and are still implementing more. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

Avoid the pitfalls of single sourcing and learn strategies to build a more resilient supply chain. In the intricate web of modern supply chain management, efficiency often guides decision-making. Single sourcing and sole sourcing are two different procurement strategies in supply chain management.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager. Mexico trade. Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Okay, turning the corner, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon offers free shipping on all orders for the holidays (CNN). Data Science In Walmart Supply Chain Technology (Medium). Shipping Rates to Increase for FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight Services.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Supply chain management is a multi-faceted process with many stakeholders and even more moving parts. New technology aims to make the supply chain more efficient, yet investing in the wrong technology further complicates productivity while hindering profitability. Here’s some research on this topic.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal. The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape.

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QAD

JUNE 13, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tension, inflation, trade issues and environmental and labor concerns exposed existing vulnerabilities in global supply chains and wreaked havoc like none of us have known before. The same holds true for your internal supply chain operations. “We Talk about a domino effect.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Green supply chain history: The origin of Supply Chain Management can be dated back to the early 20th with Henry Ford who vertically integrates the automotive supply chain and organizational practices. The purpose of going green is shown in the table.

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Exiger Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2023

To prevent the potential importation of goods produced by forced labor, the entire region is included in the act, and companies are responsible for ensuring that their entire supply chain is in compliance. WEBINAR | Mission Critical: Is China’s Modern Slavery Risk Hiding in Your Supply Chain? ]

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

While the pandemic has given procurement managers fresh ammunition to advocate for greater resiliency within their corporate supply chains, geopolitical experts and a bipartisan coalition of legislators argue that the U.S. From ships to drones. This is alarming.”. Critical minerals like lithium and nickel.

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Resilinc

MAY 4, 2021

With growing alarm over national security risks arising from China’s dominant role in global supply chains, many U.S. political leaders and geopolitical analysts advocate procuring more goods from other democratic countries. Linton calls this strategy “our Pan-American Destiny.”. and Canada 11.6% of our imported goods in 2020.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

With new supply chain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supply chain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. Brown @TheMichaelBrown Michael D.

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QAD

JULY 18, 2024

Introduction The accurate analysis and calculation of total landed costs is imperative for organizations with global supply chain operations. For example, it is common to incentivize procurement organizations to lower a product’s purchase price variance. This oversight can undermine your business’s financial stability.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 18, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Disintermediation of the Supply Chain! However the continuity of supply issues caused by the pandemic has created a call to repatriate much of this manufacturing into domestic, albeit higher cost, regions. Subscribe Here! Email Address. The Go Forward Sourcing Strategy.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Low-cost country sourcing is a procurement strategy that falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing. Political unrest, both internal and external, can halt supply lines. Political instability can cause interruptions to your supply chain. Shipping costs. International Sourcing.

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