John Galt

AUGUST 6, 2025

Jennifer Stark, Director of Planning at 1440 Foods, shared this valuable insight during the recent webinar Fueled for Growth: 1440 Foods Supply Chain Transformation Journey. Moving Beyond ERP For years, supply chain teams have leaned heavily on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as their only source of truth.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Shipping lines again managed to extract added spot rates and surcharges which have impacted business transportation budgets. supply chain activity. sourcing from China, with a correspondingly rise in import share from low-wage locations, chiefly Vietnam, and regional trade areas, particularly Mexico.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2025

The cost of drivers were reported as 6 percent in overall transportation costs, 4.9 Supply chain leaders, strategists and sourcing professionals should make note of such trending. Indicated is that continued decay in logistics and supply chain productivity rates could result in stagnating global GDP growth.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2025

Kinaxis Supply Chain Matters has recently highlighted the announcement from supply chain orchestration provider Kinaxis regarding the release of the Kinaxis Tariff Response application. This application is built on Kinaxiss AI-powered Maestro platform and delivered by select Kinaxis supply chain experts.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It would appear, at least from our lens, that the industry’s supply chain transformative needs will remain as work-in-progress. Perhaps a consolidation is that after ten years, the industry wide DCSA process is starting to make meaningful progress.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2025

If you are attending and are particularly interested in Blue Yonders supply chain planning solutions, make sure to check out the session catalog for dedicated Supply Chain Planning sessions.

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BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2025

Cognitive Solutions can SEE and anticipate events and their implications in real-time.Blue Yonder has the only unified data model across planning, transportation, and warehouse management in the supply chain industry. Disruptions that used to take days or weeks to resolve are now handled in minutes.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2025

This is often reflected in tough negotiations with suppliers for supply contracts along with extended payment terms. Internally, cost reduction relates to the closing of inefficient production facilities, cutbacks in permanent workforce needs and tough negotiations with logistics and transportation services providers.

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2025

With this latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Blue Yonder is one of only two evaluated companies recognized as a Leader in the three Gartner Magic Quadrant reports covering Supply Chain Planning, Transportation Management Systems, and Warehouse Management Systems 3.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 18, 2025

Industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters founder Bob Ferrari provides observations and insights garnered from the SAP Sapphire customer conference held in May. SAP ’s goal of several years ago related to growing revenues and profitability has shown positive momentum.

SAP

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

Tariffs also destabilize supply chain operations. When duties render traditional sourcing unprofitable, companies must reconfigure supplier networks, often under tight timelines. Walmart reportedly reduced Chinese imports by 10% in 2024 , in favor of sourcing more from Vietnam and Thailand. Beyond the U.S.,

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 20, 2025

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we alert our many readers to the appearance of Bob Ferrari, our Founder and longtime supply chain technology industry analyst appearance in a recently published and very timely podcast.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nationalist and legislative policies tied directly to industry supply chain sourcing have continued during these past two years, especially involving the United States and China.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

Jason Wang: [email protected] RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Chemicals & Energy Related Articles Supply Chain Issues Have Hurt the U.S. Featured Product Popular Stories U.K. and India Seal Free Trade Agreement Slashing Tariffs, Barriers Global Trade & Economics New U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2025

Introduction and Purpose Since our inception as an independent supply chain management industry analyst advisory firm, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group has published an annual predictions advisory. The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group announces the general availability of our published 2025 predictions advisories.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Mr. Frasquet is the executive director of corporate procurement, although his responsibilities include a much broader set of supply chain responsibilities than just sourcing. Mr. Rodríguez is the operations strategic planning manager and he leads a team focused on the company’s supply chain design.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

That said, there are several high-level trends and factors that will impact supply chain and logistics strategies and operations in 2016: Oil Prices : Just a few years ago, there was plenty of talk about oil prices potentially reaching $300 per barrel and the impact it would have on supply chain and logistics networks and processes (e.g.,

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He writes, “Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident. ”[2] He insists supply chain innovation today is not a choice, but an imperative.

Supply Chain Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

Yes, we have achieved greater normalcy in transportation. In the survey, 48% of companies were driving digital transformation, but the only element that improved performance was descriptive analytics. Companies driving digital transformation did not outperform their peer groups during the past three years. What is normalcy?

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

Over the year, COVID-19 introduced even greater complexity into the already difficult work of supply chain planning–and changed supply chain from a practitioner-focused topic to everyday dinner table conversation. Digital supply chain transformation will accelerate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Product packaging, especially in the consumer products universe is more than simply the vessel to hold the product and to protect it during transport. The transformation has touched all inventory levels from material sourcing to end product delivery. Many times, packaging gives a product its identity. It influences sales.

Packaging

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 6, 2019

Company executives are increasingly aware of the importance of supply chains in making companies successful. A couple of years ago, however, a McKinsey study concluded companies weren’t investing enough in supply chain transformation technologies. Technology and supply chain transformation.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

”[2] Steve Banker ( @steve_scm ), Vice President of Supply Chain Services at Arc Advisory Group, agrees it’s a fair question. He writes, “Companies mean different things by the term ‘digital supply chain transformation.’

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Otherwise, what is available to sell (ATS) in the form of readied stock, can soon fail to translate into available to promise (ATP) , should any of the labor, transport, production or sourcing efforts go awry. The post Supply Chain Transformations Must Prepare for No New Normal appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2024

Countless companies grapple with the fundamental flaw of disjointed processes, which leaves planning blind to crucial factors such as transportation, warehouse, and labor constraints. Bridging this technological divide requires a concerted effort to harmonize data flows and establish a unified source of truth.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Early IoT adopters in the transportation, retail, energy, agriculture, healthcare, and city management sectors are proving the IoT’s value every day. ” Transportation optimization. The IoT ecosystem can be used to optimize transportation routes and increase both efficiency and effectiveness.

Internet of things

QAD

AUGUST 4, 2021

This scarcity issue is only amplified when we review the aging workforce in the delivery industry and the lack of interest from younger generations to jump in a semi-truck for short- and long-haul transports. Supply Chain Cleansing .

Resource Reduction

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

Purchasing Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago! I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. There are also avoided costs.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Beery concluded that the best transformation projects would be, one, improved supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

IL’s educational mission is to guide businesses to efficiently manage logistics, reduce and speed inventory, and neutralize transportation cost increases by aligning supply to demand and adjusting enterprise functions to support that paradigm shift. Watch TireHub’s supply chain transformation testimonial here.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 6, 2021

With so much being written and discussed about supply chain transformation, it’s good to remind ourselves what supply chain management is fundamentally about. Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, bluntly states, “The best supply chains are fit for function.”[1]

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It has helped us dynamically optimize our engineer sources as we go. The second is to optimize our network of depots, to minimize costs: taking logistics costs from warehouse and transport centers and assessing the implications of volume increases on our network. This has been really easy to do and quick to implement.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks.

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