Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

They integrate AI into demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and logistics operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. Companies must react after the fact, often incurring higher costs and reduced service levels. Predictive maintenance of transportation fleets reduces downtime and repair costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2025

are expected to rise by $3,000 to $12,000 per car, forcing manufacturers to either pass costs to consumers or cut production. production at its South Carolina plant to reduce reliance on North American imports. This includes: Increasing domestic supply chain investments, reducing dependence on cross-border components.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the 1940s, Gujarat’s dairy farmers united against exploitative pricing by private firms, led by Verghese Kurien. This laid Amul’s foundation, empowering farmers with fair prices and delivering quality dairy products to consumers at affordable rates. This empowers them to have a stake in the business and share profits.

Optimal Sourcing 284

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 7, 2025

The problem is that the reduction of costs within one function does not necessarily drive value. For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? You are right. What should we do? How Do You Drive Value?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 23, 2025

In alignment with its end-to-end supply chain strategy, Blue Yonder will now be able to assist its customers in automating the collection and exchange of shipment data from logistics suppliers, facilitating accredited and traceable emissions calculations across all transportation modes, including air, inland (truck, rail, barge), and sea.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Treating suppliers as essential partners in the field of direct spend management—almost like customers—can be a key component of a successful company strategy. Supply Chain Knowledge and Risk Mitigation: Suppliers have a direct impact on direct spend with raw material and transportation costs as two big drivers of operating margins.

Manufacturing Procurement 292

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 1, 2025

By harnessing the growing power of AI to not only sense demand at a very fine-grain, real-time level, but also to govern decisions about pricing and inventory. The company says its new approach uses agentic AI to transform consumer feedback into profitable retail growth strategies. AI can help.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The onus is on ecommerce retailers to control the controllables, and focusing on eliminating uncertainty from the consumer fulfillment process and optimizing the last mile is a smart approach. By mapping customer delivery personas to the delivery choices they offer, retailers can improve fulfillment certainty to protect margins.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He is responsible for driving strategy, customer engagement, and industry analysis. Prior to joining DAT, Adamo led the pricing and decision science teams at FedEx. Prior to his career in logistics, Adamo worked in pricing and analytics at a deregulated energy provider.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy. Process-based companies continue to focus on manufacturing efficiency (OEE) and discrete on procurement (PPV) without designing the supply chain to balance transportation, manufacturing, and procurement to a balanced scorecard. The Lovefest with Shiny Objects. Guess what?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

Supply chain managers will need to assess supplier capacity, evaluate long-term sourcing contracts, and consider geographic diversification to reduce risk associated with seasonality and regional sourcing limitations. Companies may need to revise inventory strategies and adjust procurement lead times accordingly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2025

Many are expanding their service offerings to include tariff strategy consulting and supply chain reconfiguration guidance, moving beyond traditional entry filing to become true strategic partners. These tools can extract data from commercial documents and automatically populate entry forms, reducing processing time by approximately 65%.

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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. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 15, 2025

Companies now must make strategic decisions regarding pricing, shipping, supply chains and overall logistics. Create Short-Term and Long-Term Shipping Strategies Tip: To successfully navigate import tariff challenges, it's essential to have both short-term and long-term shipping strategies in place.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 15, 2025

While the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers powerful incentives to build a domestic clean energy supply chain, a concurrent strategy of imposing steep tariffs on imported components, particularly from China, is creating a policy paradox. While technological advancements continue to push global battery prices down, U.S.

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These benefits aren’t just about lower prices; they’re also about reducing transportation and inventory costs, which can really add up over time. When they’ve found the best option, the procurement team works to negotiate pricing, discounts, and long-term terms.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

That’s exactly what Kyle Krug , Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Marketing at Legacy Supply Chain Services, suggests. The SAP staff explains, “The good news is that you can now leverage smart technologies and tools to better power increasingly sophisticated supply chain optimization strategies.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2025

Subscribe The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy! Companies across the globe are making concerted efforts to reduce their carbon footprints, ensuring that their practices are environmentally friendly while also maintaining efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Key Strategies for Reducing Carbon Footprint 1.

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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.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2025

However, building such a supply chain requires smart strategies , the right partners, andmost importantlythe ability to adapt quickly when things go wrong. In this article, well explore proven strategies to safeguard your supply chain, minimize risks, and keep your business running smoothly, no matter what obstacles lie ahead.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2025

With expertise, technology and carrier access, a skilled 3PL company can help you unlock greater efficiency, reduce shipping costs and build supply chain resilience. That includes advising you on mode optimization, pricing strategies, routing and ways to gain better visibility across your freight operations.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 27, 2025

A December 2024 study by Professors Jonathan Phares, Jason Miller, and Stephen Burks, published by the Association for Supply Chain Management, shows carriers hire drivers when freight demand rises and reduce staff when it falls. Weak demand leads to job cuts. Carriers respond rationally to demand. In Florida, a 2.6%

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Understanding the key differences between these services can help you make a more informed decision, streamline your operations, reduce shipping costs and ultimately improve customer satisfaction. Instead, they coordinate between parties to ensure goods are transported efficiently.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At ToolsGroup, we provide cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions to enhance supply chain resiliency and efficiency. This tool helped Belcorp to map logistics parameters, such as supplier, production and transportation lead time, minimum order quantities and distribution requirements, while achieving desired service levels efficiently.

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Freight Waves

JULY 23, 2025

railroad landscape, creating a single-line transcontinental network poised to redefine freight transportation. By eliminating interchanges at major hubs like Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans—a common bottleneck in the current system—shippers can expect reduced transit times and potentially lower costs.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 4, 2025

Supply chain software provider Descartes announced Wednesday that it is cutting its workforce by 7%, or roughly 200 people. The head count reductions were an expansion of a restructuring plan announced a quarter ago , which involved trimming just 2% of the workforce.

Price Reduction 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

The adoption of AI in supply chain automation is enabling companies to make more accurate decisions, reduce cycle times, and better manage complexity. Use Cases: Spend Analytics: Machine learning models analyze historical purchasing behavior to identify opportunities for cost reduction, supplier consolidation, and policy enforcement.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

AI has the potential to truly eliminate these boundaries by integrating departmental workflows. 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. And the cherry on top?

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GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2025

It lays out the who, what, where and how of your freight, making it vital for both transport and dispute resolution. It also affects compliance, carrier performance, pricing, insurance and legal protection. NMFC Classification Indicates freight class for LTL pricing and handling. Every LTL and FTL shipment legally requires one.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alex is also the President of Reefer Van Network , a prominent player in the refrigerated transportation industry, specializing in the safe and efficient delivery of temperature-sensitive goods across North America. Reefer Van Network (RVN): A specialized division within Expedite All focused on refrigerated freight transportation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This increase in spending is not due to candy prices rising, the results from the survey show an overall candy prices only increased 0.9% Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies, facilitating improved safety, maintenance, and repair of roads, particularly during natural disasters. The data is accessible to state U.S.

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Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

That’s why organizations zero in on strategies to achieve procurement cost reduction.    The key thing to remember is that cost reduction in procurement isn’t just about slashing expenses. It cuts costs yet helps maintain product quality and smooth operations. Negotiate better contract terms.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Economic downturns can disrupt the flow of goods, increase operational costs, and reduce profit margins. In this blog post, well explore the importance of robust supply chains, the key risks they face during economic downturns, and practical strategies. Recession-proofing a supply chain doesn’t mean eliminating all risks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

tax-free, could lead to higher prices and delays for consumers, impacting companies that rely on low-cost imports from China. The partnership will explore the feasibility of transporting ammonia-based hydrogen to Germany and other European locations via floating import terminals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

tax-free, could lead to higher prices and delays for consumers, impacting companies that rely on low-cost imports from China. The partnership will explore the feasibility of transporting ammonia-based hydrogen to Germany and other European locations via floating import terminals.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2025

When tariffs rise, fuel prices spike or international trade agreements shift, those cause ripples across all freight modes — truck, air, rail and ocean. They offer flexible service and cost-effective pricing, especially for domestic shipments. It's a critical part of many 3PL supply chain strategies.

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Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

Acquisition of 3GTMS On March 24, 2025, Descartes acquired all of the shares of 3GTMS, a leading provider of transportation management solutions. The purchase price for the acquisition was approximately $112.7 The plan is designed to reduce Descartes’ global workforce by approximately 7% and eliminate various other operating expenses.

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