Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2025

This week’s news roundup highlights the transformative impact of AI integration, autonomous robotics, and strategic visions on the future of supply chains, on to the news: How AI Can Help Tame Warehouse Complexity Artificial Intelligence | By Steve Ross • 06/12/2025 The complexity of running the warehouse only continues to increase.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Supply Chain & Logistics News December 2nd – December 5th Experts claim that Cyber Monday the Monday following Thanksgiving is one of the busiest days for deliveries followed by the Mondays leading up to Christmas. As the demand sees no end and trade wars wage on, the future of the supply chain will not come without hiccups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Imagine a world where supply chains run with complete transparency, efficiency, and automationwhere every transaction, shipment, and payment are executed seamlessly without intermediaries slowing things down. For decades, supply chain management has encountered bureaucratic bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and trust issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Supply chain disruptions have become a persistent operational risk. Traditional supply chain planning, which relies on historical data and reactive adjustments, is no longer adequate for managing these challenges. Amazon is a leader in AI-driven supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In today’s interconnected global economy, sustainability within supply chains and logistics has become a necessity rather than an option. For senior leaders, understanding and integrating the three pillars of sustainability—environmental, social, and economic—into supply chain strategies is essential.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When one thinks of supply chain software vendors, the name InterSystems may not spring to mind. A supply chain data fabric can help companies augment their supply chain processes. They aim to achieve the same success in supply chain management that they have achieved in the healthcare sector.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It has led supply chain vendors to discuss how they currently use artificial intelligence. Further, virtually every supplier of supply chain solutions is eager to explain the ongoing investments they are making in artificial intelligence. The forecast can be compared to what actually shipped or sold.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

My head is wobbling with announcements, late-night Friday press releases, company name changes, and executive turnover in the supply chain planning market. Logility, a conservative company supply chain planning technology, historically had no debt and cash reserves of more than 80M, is undervalued in this deal.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Technology can change or even improve work. Companies today making a fundamental mistake: they are attempting to automate current processes with AI versus challenging and redefining work. Today, in supply chain planning, this could not be further from reality. What’s missing? This bearish attitude is well-founded.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

From May 19 to 21, 2025, CeMAT Southeast Asia and LogiSYM Asia Pacific were co-located for the second consecutive year at Singapore EXPO, creating a comprehensive platform for the regions logistics and supply chain community. Geek+ was honored as Best Warehouse Robotics Company for its smart warehouse automation solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2025

In the past, tracking a shipping container across continents or monitoring the temperature of a pharmaceutical package in a rural warehouse came with trade-offs: cost, power drain, or unreliable coverage. Two cellular technologies LTE-M and NB-IoT are now reshaping long-distance asset tracking. This is changing. This is changing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Five years ago, we all thought the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the most disrupted supply chain landscape we would ever see. Since then, supply chain disruptions and volatility have only increased. That may sound impossible, but new technology places this capability within the reach of every organization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 29, 2025

During the two-day event, I participated in various sessions covering a range of topics, including Warehouse Management Systems, Labor Management, Agentic AI, and Warehouse Automation. Supply chain unification was an undertone for many of the sessions during the entire event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

October 14th – 18th 2024 Supply Chain & Logistics News Yesterday, I landed back in the States from my autumn getaway. These efforts aim to support Amazon’s operations with clean energy while advancing nuclear technology. Do You Think Fedex Ships Live Pandas?

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EFT

JUNE 18, 2025

Against a backdrop of US tariff uncertainty and geopolitical instability, European supply chains are backing technology as a key response, with supply chain management software and forecasting technologies found to be deployed most widely and the capabilities most likely to generate resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

As technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) gain traction, the focus has remained on practical applications that yield incremental improvements rather than wholesale infrastructure change. AI is playing an increasingly pragmatic role in optimizing supply chain operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As automation continues to evolve in logistics, two technologies are becoming central to modern delivery methods: autonomous drones and autonomous vehicles. However, each technology serves different purposes within logistics, and the question remains: Which will ultimately shape the industry’s operational structure?

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As Josh and his partner scaled Launch Fulfillment , they encountered some cash flow issues inherent in high volume parcel shipping that their ecommerce customers required. Joshua is dedicated to helping eCommerce brands optimize their supply chains by offering premium fulfillment services.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home No More Black Swans: The Age of Supply Chain Uncertainty Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses. Everything should be expected and planned for. This insight wasn’t merely theoretical.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

CONA Services Provides a Common Platform for Supply Chain Collaboration CONA Services LLC is an IT services company owned and governed by the 11 largest Coca-Cola bottlers in North America. CONA is a strategic partner that provides its bottlers with a common set of processes, data standards, and technology platforms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Manhattan joins a select group of supply chain software suppliers generating over $1 billion in annual revenue. Manhattan Associates is a leader in two markets, warehouse management systems and omnichannel systems. The company also sells supply chain planning and transportation management solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

In todays hyperconnected supply chain environment, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the operational backbone for visibility, optimization, and automation. Consider these real-world scenarios: A sensor on a shipping container crossing the ocean may require satellite communication until it enters port Wi-Fi coverage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2025

The Warehouse Management System market nearly grew by $1 billion in 2024, following a robust four-year climb since the pandemic. E-Commerce Expansion and Fulfillment Complexity The surge in online shopping has dramatically increased the demand for sophisticated warehouse operations with shorter shipping deadlines.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous supply chains are systems that can operate with little to no human intervention, and they use artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, and sensors to optimize the flow of goods. The key technologies that enable autonomous supply chains are artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, sensors, and blockchain.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 3, 2025

How CPG leaders can reduce costs without hurting supply chain performance fbaker Tue, 06/03/2025 - 09:18 In the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, SG&A (Selling, General, and Administrative) costs have long been a go-to target for improving margins. The answer lies in technology, smarter planning, and automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, data and software programs can be saved or run in any data processing center in the world. Cloud computing has made installation, administration, and updates significantly easier and has thereby laid the foundation for Software as a Service (SaaS). This business model provides many advantages: Processing big data efficiently.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 26, 2025

Blind shipping is a strategic method of drop shipping where the supplier's identity is concealed, and products are shipped directly from the supplier to the customer, maintaining confidentiality along your supply chain. What is blind shipping? And why does it matter to businesses?

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process. It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

Supply chain automation refers to the tools and technologies we can use to make manual tasks automated, reducing the need for human workers. It’s sometimes misunderstood, but it’s actually integrated into almost all supply chains nowadays in av ariety of different ways.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2025

If your business depends on freight shipping, you've likely felt the effects of a world that seems to change overnight. Building a resilient supply chain isn't just a best practice anymore — it's a business imperative. Even businesses that ship only within U.S. The good news? borders feel the effects of global issues.

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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. Healthcare providers are leveraging efficient supply chains to ensure critical supplies reach patients when needed most.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. I am worried.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. The ride is uphill, but the visibility is low. What is normalcy?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article is from Scott Mullins, EVP of Operations and COO at Lucas Systems, and looks at self-distribution in healthcare systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Supply management. Supply chain management. Supply chain planning. The lack of interoperability between decision support platforms is a problem for companies attempting to improve decisions from the channel to supplier bi-directionally through technology. Are these terms the same? The answer is no.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Supported by advanced technology, their multifunctional customer portal provides instant booking, quoting, real-time tracking, and other features designed to streamline the shipping process. Expedite All: A freight brokerage company that connects smaller carriers and owner-operators with shippers needing expedited shipping services.

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