UPC Meaning: What It Is, Types, and How to Get
Running a business today means staying organized, especially when selling products globally or across online marketplaces. Mismanaging items leads to errors, confusion, and lost sales. That’s where understanding UPC meaning becomes essential. A UPC—short for Universal Product Code—is a unique number and a type of bar code used for product identification. The barcode symbol, which […]
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Beyond Reshoring to Regionalization
Recent and ongoing tariff discussions have some supply chain leaders rethinking their global supply strategy. While this has led many manufacturers to consider reshoring, an alternate strategy is growing around regionalization and rightshoring.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Providing air capacity on key trade lanes, CEVA Logistics launched a trans-Pacific charter program connecting Wuxi, China, to Chicago. Offering three flights per week, the Wuxi-Chicago charter is designed to accommodate a range of cargo types, including industrial equipment, electronics, oversized cargo, ecommerce goods, and apparel.
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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Drones
From conducting inventory counts with accuracy to completing last-mile deliveries with precision, these drones take flight in the supply chain space.
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TMS: Time to Ditch the Spreadsheets
Outdated tools can’t keep up with today’s global supply chain demands. A modern transportation management system (TMS) turns complexity into clarity, cuts costs, improves service, and transforms shipping from a manual chore into a strategic advantage.
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How to Manage Lead Time With Machine Learning
The impact of lead time variability on supply chain management is a critical factor impacting operational efficiency, cost management and service delivery. Lead time involves decisions that determine optimal inventory levels, when to place orders and how much to order, stocking policy, available-to-premise calculations, supplier performance and supplier selection.
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Create Efficiencies for B2B and D2C Fulfillment with Unified Warehousing
Q. What is unified warehousing? A. A unified warehousing network seamlessly handles both your B2B and D2C orders under one roof. Consolidating your inventory into one location eliminates the need for redundant stock across separate warehouses. This reduction in overall stock levels translates directly into lower inventory carrying costs. With all products housed in one […]
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Inside the Four Walls: Scaling Smarter with Robotics, Goods to Person, and Agile Fulfillment
Q. What are the biggest challenges your clients are facing in warehouse and fulfillment operations today? A. Labor remains one of the most pressing issues across the industry. With increasing wage pressures and a limited pool of available workers, many fulfillment centers are struggling to scale their operations traditionally. As demand grows and service expectations […]
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Supply Chain Pocket Change?
As a company’s supply chain network evolves over time, information needed for adaptive efficiency becomes isolated in hard-to-find data pockets. In those instances, data required to drive modern efficient operations is isolated and not instantly accessible—usually housed on old world siloed spreadsheets. Do you have supply chain data points in hidden pockets? Modernized business operations […]
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