Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ability to drill down into this data at multiple levels ensures that sustainability measures are implemented and optimized for various supply chain segments. Since many organizations currently purchase carbon offsets, they can easily define the carbon cost of avoided emissions by translating the price of offsetting.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Now for the Do’s & Don’ts In the dynamic world of FMCG, your Route to Market (RTM) strategy and distributor partnerships can make or break your brand’s success. Do Invest in Distributor Capability Building : Provide training, digital tools, and performance incentives. Digital visibility enhances agility and decision-making.

Waste Reduction

RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. Additionally, we’ll discuss best practices for optimization and strategies for balancing efficiency with resilience.

Sourcing Strategies

RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By harnessing the power of data science and analytics, you can gain end-to-end visibility across your entire network, breaking down information silos and optimizing every stage of your operations. Route Optimization: Calculate the most efficient delivery routes based on several factors. Ready to get started? Let’s dive in.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 5, 2025

How can you optimize your medical equipment supply chain? Here are some strategies you can adopt: 1. Pricing is a factor that’s been mentioned previously. As part of the optimization, source your medical supplies online from companies like CIA Medical that supply medical equipment in wholesale. What’s lacking?

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

That, at least, is the theory behind mathematical optimization, and the way it’s being applied to supply chain management today. By itself, the word “optimize” doesn’t mean anything specific. “A Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2025

From a supply chain perspective, pricing becomes more than a marketing lever, it becomes a live data signal. Retailers can use these signals to trigger inventory movements, optimize order timing, and reduce waste, particularly with perishable goods. This can lead to a reevaluation of warehouse strategy.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Innovation Pillars: Diagnose: primarily powered by Infor Process Mining, this capability helps organizations gain visibility into business processes, uncover non-conforming variants, identify critical bottlenecks, and optimize operations based on data. The strategy strongly focused on enabling customer success and accelerating innovation.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

AI also improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of supply chain operations, both in terms of automating processes, and finding ways to refine pricing strategies and take advantage of forecast trends. Combining these in the supply chain is the ideal way to advance beyond reactive strategies to proactive and even predictive ones.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

To improve their operations, they installed autonomous mobile robots in their warehouse. According to a survey of 250 global companies by the consulting firm McKinsey, 91% of shippers and 75% of logistics service providers have implemented a warehouse management system. Can a warehouse with so few pickers get good payback from AMRs?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2025

By producing only whats needed, when its needed, they eliminate the burden of forecasting errors and reduce warehouse dependency. Powered by digital tools, on-demand strategies offer a cleaner, more responsive path to production. Warehousing becomes a sunk cost. But in volatile markets, they often backfire.

Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

And cross-functional teams — from procurement and sales to finance and customer service — are left scrambling to react. 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. Inventory buffers shrink. That means going multimodal.

Freight

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

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) platforms have emerged as innovative solutions in education and training, offering customized support that can profoundly enhance the development of future supply chain experts. Preparing the next generation to excel in this dynamic field requires more than traditional education methods.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 2, 2025

Labor shortages in warehousing persist as a significant issue, with a vacancy rate of 7.4%. While we have end-to-end transactional processes (order to cash and procure-to-pay), there is no end-to-end planning solution. What if we had a shipper rating system based on forecast, dock scheduling, warehouse logistics, and payables?

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

Following are three strategies for using data to meet these challenging times. Now is an excellent time to develop organizational execution intelligence, which means using data and analytics to optimize operations across inventory management, pricing and promotion to squeeze every last ounce of efficiency out of your processes.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

Each reformulation may involve regulatory submissions, quality assurance reviews, and potential consumer communication strategies. Companies may need to revise inventory strategies and adjust procurement lead times accordingly. In many cases, current warehouse and transportation arrangements will need to be re-evaluated.

Manufacturing Procurement

Freightos

JULY 7, 2025

Disparate systems, such as Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms, often operate in silos, resulting in inconsistent data formats and poor data quality. Yet, as Esch highlighted, even global companies struggle with data harmonization.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Journalist Sean Galea-Pace reports that conducting end-to-end supply chain risk assessments and prioritizing important focus areas is the first of several suggestions offered by EY analysts to help companies improve their end-to-end supply chain and operations strategy to grow, optimize and protect operations.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this blog, well explore key strategies to enhance supply chain resilience and highlight how services like those offered by ModusLink can help businesses navigate these challenges effectively. Effective demand planning also optimizes inventory levels, reducing costs associated with storage and carrying inventory.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

Look for solutions with ergonomic workstations that use images, lights and clear visual cues instead of audio prompts, which can get lost in a noisy warehouse or confuse a multilingual workforce. A system so straightforward that a new team member can be trained in under an hour and hit the ground running.

Supply Chain Software

ivalua

AUGUST 12, 2025

At Ivalua, we help global enterprises modernize their sourcing strategy through greater visibility, data-driven decision-making and agile, connected processes. Key Takeaways Effective sourcing strategies support resilience, sustainability, and long-term growth across the organization.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

First Insight, which works with major retailers like Gap, Under Armour and Marks & Spencer , to optimize their pricing, merchandising and inventory strategies, has turned its attention to making sure retailers can take control of their pricing and inventory strategies using real-time customer insights and predictive scenario modeling.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Of course, AI is already in use in the supply chain, adding its capabilities to myriad other efforts to optimize operational efficiency. Koganti said this is the fastest-growing use of AI in supply chain, especially when it comes to forecasting, procurement and fulfillment. It employs 450 million people globally, and contributes $1.45

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

JULY 6, 2025

It’s easy to feel at ease when procurement systems operate as they should—robust and solid. Procurement teams now face a clear need: build bendable systems instead of unbreakable ones. Let’s look at how procurement ecosystems can become more prepared for anything that comes their way. That is, until something goes wrong.

Manufacturing Procurement

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Decoding the Procurement Department: A Comprehensive Guide to Roles and Responsibilities This supply chain article provides a comprehensive overview of the procurement department within an organization. Read In Detail About Procurement Department Here 2.

Negotiating Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They offer software systems and technology for complex integration, rapid application development, and advanced analytics and sell those solutions to companies that need to accelerate optimized business outcomes. Marketing may want an optimization scenario that costs more but leads to maximum service levels for a new product.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

From rule-based systems to predictive analytics and the generative AI boom, businesses have leveraged these technologies to optimize operations, forecast trends, and create data-driven strategies. They can proactively identify risks, optimize processes in real time, and even negotiate supplier contracts without human oversight.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

At the outset, shippers may see Hawaiian shipping as an extension of their mainland operations, to which they can apply the same strategies and the same playbook. Building an effective shipping strategy for Hawaii is a moving target. Building an effective shipping strategy for Hawaii is a moving target.

Hawaii

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Tesco and Walmart have announced procurement policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability throughout their extended supply chains. AI can integrate with procurement platforms, utility meters, logistics trackers and internet of things sensors to gather real-time data. Retailers are following suit.

Rail Software

ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

It’s a strategic, big-picture function that includes procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and customer delivery — and all the relationships and processes in between. It includes everything from managing transportation providers to optimizing warehouse layouts, picking and packing, and even handling customs paperwork.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

Against this backdrop, one factor stands out as both a risk and key opportunity: pricing. To be precise, the ability to adjust pricing and pricing strategies in real-time, grounded in data and tailored to specific markets, has emerged as the most effective way to shield and even grow profits.

Price Reduction

Precoro

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In this article, we’ll explain what centralized purchasing is, the challenges it tackles, the benefits of centralized procurement, and the types of companies that can benefit most from it. That’s when a centralized procurement organization structure proves beneficial.

Pricing Training

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

One of the most effective strategies for building resilience is integrating project management into supply chain operations. In supply chain operations, it plays a crucial role in mitigating risks, improving response times, and optimizing workflows. Improve collaboration between suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics partners.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Its such a tiny word, but it covers quite a lot of different disciplines," says Adrian Wood, director of strategy and marketing for Dassault Systèmes. Traditional AI dates back to at least the 1960s and encompasses techniques such as machine learning, which utilizes historical data to optimize problems and predict future outcomes.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

At Optimal Dynamics’ recent Transportation Leadership Strategy Session, 25 industry peers gathered to exchange perspectives on how we’re all adapting to these pressures. Some of the most exciting developments are happening in AI-driven network optimization. These three roles form the backbone of any change initiative.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Opportunities for Procurement Technology As we look toward 2025, European businesses are reshaping their supply chains to navigate an increasingly complex global landscape. While companies have robust visibility over their inventory and warehousing (99%), this drops to a stark 20% when it comes to their deeper supplier networks.

Procurement Analytics