Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 7, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The biggest losers for the week were RFID firm Impinj, down 8.0%, and SAP, off 5.3%.

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BlueYonder

MAY 1, 2025

For example, aluminum raw material is cast into a piston in Canada, then shipped to Detroit for machining incurring a 25% tariff based on the piston’s value. This includes network redesign, tariff exposure analysis across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods, and sourcing strategies aligned with your organizations risk appetite.

Just-in-Time

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The top loser in our index for the week was SAP, down 5.9%, followed by Oracle, JB Hunt and Union Pacific, all down just 0.1%.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 13, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The top loser in our index for the week was software firm Descartes Systems, down 3.2%, followed by USP, which fell 2.7%

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 29, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The only loser in our index for the week was warehouse developer Prologis, down just 0.1%.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 6, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The only loser in our index for the week was software firm Kinaxsis, down just 0.3%.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 22, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The biggest losers for the week were Oracle, down 4.7%, and carrier Old Dominion, off 2.3%.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 20, 2025

See performance for the past week, month and year for each stock and the whole index in the chart below: Source: SCDigest Feedback No Feedback on this article yet. The top loser in our index for the week was carrier Schneider, down 6.6%, followed by rival Werner, which fell 5.6%.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 12, 2025

Powered by generative AI, this new system harnesses data from dozens of sources, including satellite imagery, road networks, building footprints, customer instructions, information from prior deliveries, and street imagery, to create a comprehensive delivery solution for millions of locations. Quick Response Ups Driver Hires h 2.8

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 6, 2017

While civil unrest could slow down production or shipments in a foreign country, natural disasters can accomplish just as much shipping disruption in North America. Even Canada, a country that’s not exactly famous for shipping disasters, was virtually cut in half by a single unexpected bridge collapse in 2016. To Sum It All Up.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. It was hard for me to rationalize the world of manufacturing that was deliberate and designed versus the emerging practices in supply chain. Supply chain design looks very different by company.

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Logility

MARCH 16, 2023

Here are three ways to protect your margins by enhancing your supply chain network design. Use a digital twin to rapidly analyze new supply chain network design scenarios A digital twin is simply a simulated version of your real-world supply chain. Add more distribution centers? More micro-fulfillment locations?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Since 1990, the size of ships increased 3X, but the design of the west coast ports remained largely unchanged.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. I don’t care what you call it, but network design, what-if analysis, simulation and digital twin approaches grow in importance.) Build in-market sourcing. The ride is uphill, but the visibility is low.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition). Most supply chain planning deployments cannot use channel data because the model is a “Ship from model” not a “Ship to engine.” Seven elements drive success: The team is clear on the mission.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

of in-stock products ship the same business day from our DCs; that is best of breed for any industry.” The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. million square feet in 10 distribution centers and 35 million square feet across its branch network. The company uses a network design tool from Coupa.

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QAD

AUGUST 6, 2020

This is typically a strategic planning function where an expensive and time-consuming analysis of the entire connected supply chain is done once a year to choose the most cost-effective route for acquiring materials and shipping finished products. This held up trucks from leaving the factories even when they had product to ship.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Lack of adequate risk data and the non-strategic positioning of supply chain design within the organization has been a key inhibitor to success. AI Assistants can also help make managing the process of supply chain design easier. This is where AI can make all the difference. What is the cost impact of making changes?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Mr. Frasquet is the executive director of corporate procurement, although his responsibilities include a much broader set of supply chain responsibilities than just sourcing. Mr. Rodríguez is the operations strategic planning manager and he leads a team focused on the company’s supply chain design. That is changing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality. These are different by design and the armed forces lacks modeling technologies to understand the differences.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2023

One area of concern for the long-term health of the world is the use of packaging in both the manufacturing and shipping of products. For respondents at the median, 80 percent of total annual packing material consumed comes from recycled or re-used materials and 60 percent comes from renewable sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2023

And next to impossible is creating plans in a timely manner when monitoring unrelated KPIs across multiple disconnected sources of data. Your customer service and operational costs will always be impacted by your need to ship orders across the country.” Supply chain organizations are no strangers to this frustration.

S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A company can plan for this variability in a variety of ways – sourcing from multiple vendors for a given part , or network design to create a network with more decoupling points (more paths for a product to flow to market), or purchasing just-in-case capacity. Ships are blocked in front of ports.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

For example, in 2011 Amazon initiated a program called Amazon Prime (free 2-day shipping and discounted 1-day shipping). 2) Customize Logistics Network. For example, if you were a contract manufacturer in China, you might already have different logistics networks for different customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. .

Modeling

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In the supply chain, variability and volatility come from many sources. The best way to start the design of an agile supply chain is to look at the sources of variability and market volatility that your supply chain encountered in the prior year. They have the most “packaged” network simulation capabilities.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 8, 2018

Source: Gartner Research. Cycle stocks can leverage economies of scale by using economically optimum supply quantities that minimize buying, making and shipping unit costs. Traditional ABC inventory models segment inventory into A, B and C categories based on annual consumption value. Lots of margin. Not too much demand variability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Volume is up. The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. What to do?

Analytics Software

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On the supply side, material shortages, staffing challenges, and shipping capacity constraints are all happening at the same time. The product flow paths and modes of transportation altered radically as well even without accounting for any network node changes, owing to port closures or shortages in various transportation lanes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Volume is up. The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. What to do?

Analytics Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2017

While the chemical industry improved transactional efficiency through global ERP deployments, the industry has become more reactionary with a regression in supply chain planning, network design and strategy. We are now in transition of passing the baton between generations. Many companies are struggling with shareholder activism.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free). Enterprise control towers operate in islands without a dial-tone to drive interoperability with and within networks.

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