SCMDOJO

JUNE 3, 2025

Picture yourself at your local hardware store comparing two paint cans that appear completely identical, yet they have completely different price tags. Before digital tools entered the scene, thats almost exactly what procurement used to feel like. This is exactly what digital tools are delivering. Today though?

Negotiating Skills

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. But what if you could get a clear, birds-eye view of your core performance without investing in complex, expensive software? Check out SCMDOJO’s Supply Chain KPIs Dashboard!

Pricing Training

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Subscribe Thesis Ideas for Supply Chain Students! Today’s fast-moving supply networks demand more than intuition; they require systems thinking, digital fluency, and strong data skills. As a result, the degree plays a growing role in boosting cost efficiency and visibility across supply chains.

Vendor Strategies

SCMDOJO

JUNE 9, 2025

How Documentation Happens in Logistics Accurate documentation in logistics requires structured processes and reliable methods to capture, record, and transmit essential information at every stage of the supply chain. In the procurement phase, documentation begins with purchase orders and supplier contracts.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

JANUARY 19, 2025

The ways to find and buy items online with instant processing had changed the customers’ views on the whole chain. But convenience is not the only trait of a click-to-buy process. We conclude that different types of loans may help e-commerce supply chains. Here, we get another central point, the capital.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a comprehensive, dynamic software system that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing goodsfrom raw materials to finished products. The need to innovate, automate and contain costs calls for optimum performance across the manufacturing value chain.

Manufacturing Procurement

IT Supply Chain

JUNE 18, 2025

The smartest contractors are switching to integrated platforms that unify purchasing, payments, and supplier coordination all in one place. Top-performing firms are using project management software that connects the dots between site needs, supplier availability, and accounting. When suppliers don’t get paid promptly, orders stall.

Manufacturing Procurement

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Reverse logistics, while not being the opposite of forward logistics, is still about products moving backwards in the supply chain. However, remember that products or subassemblies that never made it out of the factory may need to travel backwards one or more stages along the supply chain.

Reverse Logistics

Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Home February 24, 2025 Understanding Opportunity Cost in Warehouse Automation Decisions Kane Edwards , Business Development Manager Every business decision comes with trade-offs and choosing one path means forgoing another. In the context of warehouse operations, this principle applies directly to warehouse automation.

Supply Chain Software

SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

In an age where supply chains face persistent disruptionsfrom pandemics and trade wars to cyberattacks and climate volatilityresilience is no longer optional. This shift has pushed supply chain leadership to pivot from reactive management to proactive strategy built on data. Not sure where your supply chain stands?

Prescriptive Analytics Software

Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Instead of developing strategies to keep spend management and purchasing compliant, companies end up with multiple instances of maverick spend or unsustainable vendor behavior. Procurement compliance means ensuring all purchasing activities adhere to applicable regulations, laws, internal policies, and external guidelines.

Procurement Analytics

Ware2Go

APRIL 15, 2025

Amazon is driving demand for faster delivery With the launch of Amazon Prime, the ecommerce giant created strong demand for 2-day shipping, and then turned around and sold that capability to its 3rd-party sellers in the form of Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). It’s not hard to see why Amazon prefers this model.

Inventory Reduction

Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I primarily work with customers and prospects on how to fit our ERP solution into their business and different functionalities that we can bring to bear and how it would work with other parts of their technology stack. Chad Wright From a technology perspective, it was exactly what I had just said.

Manufacturing Procurement

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

These tariffs will raise costs, disrupt supply chains, and force companies to rethink sourcing and logistics strategies. Businesses must act immediately to safeguard operations, contain financial risks, and maintain supply chain stability. Strengthening Domestic Supply Chains Businesses that manufacture in the U.S.

Negotiating Skills

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Choosing the right inventory management software , often referred to as an inventory control system, can be the difference between a well-oiled, profit-generating operation and one plagued by costly mistakes and inefficiencies. The right software empowers businesses to take control of their stock, optimize operations, and drive growth.

Inventory Management Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

New Roles and Skills likely to Emerge, Gartner’s Abdil Tunca Says July 30, 2025 Supply Chain Digest Says. In a recent blog post, Tunca had this to say: “CSCOs must develop an organizational structure to support the management of growing fleets of robots by creating a warehouse automation strategy.”

Warehousing

QAD

JULY 9, 2025

As global supply chains become more complex and customer expectations grow more dynamic, manufacturers need smarter, faster, and more adaptive tools to stay ahead. This emerging technology is transforming how manufacturers forecast demand, optimize inventory, and respond to market shifts.

Supply and Demand

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. Supply Chain Digest Says. Gartner says that, with the exception of high-performing organizations, 40% of logistics leaders cite the struggle to realize value from existing technology investments What do you say?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Arena Solutions

AUGUST 1, 2025

That means that both systems are really built for collaboration and built for kind of also including your supply chain and the whole processes. I’ve been building CAD and PDM and related software for 44 years. Obviously tariffs, wars, politics, pandemics, supply chains are disrupted whether you want to change or not.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

We always start with a check on the US and global economy, as that has such an impact in the end on supply chain practice. One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. Gilmore Says. What do you say? growth for all 2025, 2.8%

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Highlights of the interview are provided below: Q: Why is it critical for supply chain planning leaders to evolve their roles to more proactively shape business decisions in today’s environment? What do you say?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Shapiro

JANUARY 27, 2025

If you’re involved in international shipping or global trade, you simply must slow down and pay attention! By revisiting the de minimis import process, CBP aims to tighten security measures without creating unnecessary bottlenecks in the shipping process. regulations. What are the Proposed Changes?

Resource Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Aronow observes that many supply chain organizations are perpetually chasing their commercial partners to engage and improve the demand forecast. Aronow says to start by investing in organizational storytelling skills. What do you say?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supply chain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. Below are some highlights from the Gartner blog post. This shift was accompanied by a change in tone.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supply chains list. That famous ranking used to be released at a dinner the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May (now called the Supply Chain Symposium), but this year it was again released in a webinar a few weeks after the conference. Gilmore Says.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

Company warehouses buzz with metallic arms plucking items from shelves and wheeled droids that motor around the floors ferrying the goods for packaging,” the article this week says, adding that “In other corners, automated systems help sort the items, which other robots assist in packaging for shipment.”

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

The on-going conflict creates risks to critical raw materials and the continued flow of finished goods, Garter says, requiring supply chains to conduct cost-benefit analyses of mitigation actions in partnership with finance leaders. Supply Chain Digest Says. Prepare CFOs for continued supply chain cost volatility 3.

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. The differences continue: In my rough estimate labor productivity in the second facility is about twice that of the first even with less automation. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago. What do you say?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

What I failed to do in any of those three columns was mention what in some ways may have been the biggest to news items: the retirements of sorts of Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich and groundbreaking, inaugural Gartner analyst, and famous inventor of the Three V’s of Supply Chain, Art Mesher.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. It adds that even for shippers with annual contracts, which tend to be larger and better protected from cost changes from their vendors, Drewry had seen a trend of more frequent unexpected surcharges, such as Red Sea and ship deviation surcharges since late 2023.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. It also describes using layered defenses across telematics, authentication and personnel training. While these results may seem surprising to those solely focused on barcode scanning, the adoption of multi-modal technologies in the DC makes perfect sense for greater worker efficiency and productivity.

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. That price would represent about a 23% premium to Norfolk Southern’s stock before the first reports of a potential deal this month. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

Click here to send us your comments January New that supply chain software provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. The disgraced executive was eventually convicted of wire and securities fraud in 2022 for misleading investors about Nikola’s operations and zero-emissions technology. What do you say?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

This week we review the performance of supply chain stocks, and next week we will provide our popular take on the 1H 2025 in numbers and charts On to the stocks, I am ending my numbers with the closing bell on July 3. In early 2021, SCDigest re-launched this weekly supply chain and logistics stock market index.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Digest Says. Pre-tariff shipping was not enough to tighten the market balance even as seasonality improved in May,” Denoyer said. In May, the Linehaul Index fell 0.5% month-over-month. The year-over-year increase slowed to 0.6% in May from 0.9% What do you say? seasonally adjusted versus April. month-over-month.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

of GDP The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls. Supply Chain Digest Says. Companies often do not perform enough user training, making the work harder for operators.

Supply Chain Design Software