Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. In early 2024, for example, Delta Airlines partnered with the technology platform SmartKargo to launch a 2-day and 3-5 delivery service solution, DeliverDirect. Meanwhile, Chinese e-commerce platforms are changing up their supply chains just in case.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2025

Products Before Talks Vietnam Inks Deals to Buy $3 Billion U.S. Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management U.S. Billion I Have to Actually Buy This Thing Before It Will Work? Trade Deficit Narrows by Most on Record as Imports Plunge Global Trade & Economics U.S.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 17, 2025

Companies that heavily depend on these materials, such as those in renewable energy and textile manufacturing, face heightened risks of supply chain disruptions and rising costs. Thirty-six percent of the shipments were shipped by entitles based in Vietnam. billion USD. What Comes Next?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with December 2024, Q4-2024 , and year-end global supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI reporting. Both are key indicators to future supply chain momentum or growth. and thus 2024 provided a 0.8 in November to 50.5 in December.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Tariffs hit hard on the bottom line by hiking up costs across supply chains, thereby affecting sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution decisions. However, if organizations adopt proactive tariff optimization strategies and build adaptive supply chains, these challenges can be turned into opportunities. Here’s how.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2025

Here’s your supply chain & logistics news for the week. Some key developments in supply chain and logistics include Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ successful integration of a human-centric digital strategy, leveraging technologies like Continuous Manufacturing and MES to boost agility and workforce adoption.

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Arena Solutions

JANUARY 7, 2025

With recent political shifts potentially leading to an influx of new tariffs, manufacturers are gearing up for considerable disruptions across the global supply chain. Regardless of the outcome, manufacturers will need to reassess their supply chain strategies to mitigate risks and stay competitive.

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Freightos

JUNE 24, 2025

Join 60,000+ Supply Chain Experts Who Never Miss an Issue! And aside from a tentative agreement with the UK, the US still reports only limited progress in negotiations with many of its largest trading partners like the EU , Canada , and Vietnam. America by air. Start your week with the industry insights others miss. "

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog shares excerpts of select individual predictions that will be included in our annual 2025 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. billion in funds.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides our assessment commentary relative to yesterdays declared U.S. The announcement was highly significant in its scope and implications for multiple industry focused supply chain management teams moving forward. Vietnam – 46 percent in addition to other tariffs. Administrations.

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Freightos

JULY 8, 2025

The extensions allow more time for negotiations that could lower or avoid these tariff increases, as so far the White House has only signed an agreement with the UK, announced a tentative trade framework with Vietnam , and is reportedly making progress with several trade partners including the EU , Japan , Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand.

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EFT

JULY 1, 2025

technology firms, saying that it was a "blatant attack" and that he would set a new tariff rate on Canadian goods within the next week. tariffs disrupt the fast-fashion industry that relies on imports of low-cost clothes from China, Vietnam, and other Asian countries. shares fell as much as 5.8%

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EFT

JUNE 16, 2025

The key supply chain stories from Reuters’ global network of journalists US ocean container imports tumble in May as China tariffs take hold U.S. year-over-year in May, the sharpest decline since the pandemic, as President Donald Trump's 145% tariffs took hold, supply chain technology provider Descartes (DSG.TO) said on Monday.

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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. In the U.S., An estimated 60% of U.S.

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Freightos

MAY 7, 2025

Despite dropping volumes out of China and some increase in demand out of other countries like Vietnam, transpacific container rates were level this week as carriers have successfully reduced capacity to current volume levels through a significant number of blanked sailings and service adjustments.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2025

Newest Senior Operations and Supply Chain Leader Sabih Khan joined Apple’s executive team as Senior Vice President of Operations in 2019. He has directly led senior leadership for Apple’s global supply chain efforts for the past six years. based supplier, production and other capabilities. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. He did two tours in Vietnam and was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. RIP Fred Smith, one of the most consequential figures in the history of supply chain. at over 5,000 facilities worldwide. --Its

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

and Vietnam have been far short of comprehensive, leaving many details unclear. Global Supply Chain Management Argentina: A New Opportunity in Latin America’s Industrial Sector Global Supply Chain Management U.S.-Swiss Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Exiger Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

Table of Contents Supply chain AI company Exiger presented with Hope for Justice | Slave Free Alliance at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2025 Orlando to discuss the intersection of ethical supply chains, trade restrictions, and where businesses can invest their time and technology now to save moneyand liveslater.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 8, 2025

technology shared with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd., made engines, avionics and other technology to build its C919 jetliner. Dockworkers, Port Employers Set to Restart Talks Bloomberg Vietnam Inks Deals to Buy $3 Billion U.S. and Asia’s biggest economy. and Asia’s biggest economy. and Asia’s biggest economy.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 6, 2025

The company and its retail peers are trying to manage supply chains that have been upended by U.S. Apparel and footwear production hubs in Asia, including China and Vietnam, face elevated tariff rates as the White House pushes for new trade deals. Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management U.S. Bloomberg U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

VF Corporation is Building a Highly Automated DC on the West Coast. Anytime you have a chance to talk to an executive vice president in charge of the global supply chain of a nearly $12 billion corporation, you know you will learn some things. Cameron Bailey, EVP of Global Supply Chain at VF Corporation, did not disappoint.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic The Asian Institute of Management conducted a study across orgainsations in Asia to identify crucial skills and competencies required by supply chain managers and leaders in Asia. Supply Chain Competency: Focuses on core competencies to optimize operations.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 7, 2015

What happens when you ask four experts for their thoughts on supply chain transformation? And this is what they shared: How would you define supply chain transformation? If you ask me, supply chain transformation is about redefining the way you work, the way you deliver to customers, the way you operate.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 16, 2022

Many pundits insist that anyone who believes the global supply chain is going to return to normal is suffering from this form of insanity. ”[1] Noted supply chain expert Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder of Supply Chain Insights, put it another way. .”[1] … What can we learn? ”[2].

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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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Kinaxis

AUGUST 10, 2015

Through the supply chain. Modern slavery is one of the supply chain industry’s dirty little secrets, but thankfully, governments in the US and UK are attempting to wash it clean, working to put a stop to a problem that should never have been allowed to exist in the first place.

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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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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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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

The article presents findings from a survey conducted across over 200 global supply chain professionals to highlight how the pandemic has increased the need for freight market intelligence and how it continues to be relevant even as supply chain issues resolve. While this isn’t news to me, the importance it took on was.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

While prices to Long Beach from both Shanghai and Vietnams Saigon Port increased more than 40% between the time of the reciprocal tariff announcement on April 2nd and their start date on April 9th, since then Shanghai – Long Beach rates have fallen more than 30% while prices out of Saigon have remained at their elevated level.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its Supply Chain Matters outreach blog highlights a recently published survey sponsored by Accenture that provides findings indicating that companies are indeed investing in supply chain resiliency capabilities to mitigate business disruption. In 2022, more U.S.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Welcome to the third installment of Supply Chain Spotlight, Elementum’s interview series. We speak with the most influential people in today’s global supply chain. Each interview is a conversation about the most important topics and tasks facing supply chain professionals all over the world.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Complexity is a major issue faced by most production-based supply chains because of the interconnected nature across global operations; and when it comes to livestock and fresh food, their perishable and voluminous nature create unique challenges that make matters significantly worse.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate, Supply Chain Matters blog unveils part two of a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. Economic and Business Challenges Expected in 2023. Overall Themes for the Year 2023.

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Unleashed

MARCH 31, 2021

We live in a global economy and that has made the supply chain all the more important – these days partner companies could be anywhere in the world, facing any number of challenges. However, when people refer to supply chains, they often use the terms ‘supply chain’ and ‘logistics’ interchangeably.

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