10 Tips for Improving Carrier Collaboration
In an era of constant disruption, businesses face unprecedented logistics challenges. To navigate these complexities, companies must strengthen collaboration with carriers.
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The Great Trucking Contraction: Safety, Language, and the Future of the American Supply Chain
The American trucking industry, which moves 70% of domestic freight, is currently under the microscope. But the focus isn’t on speed limits or logging hours anymore. We are seeing a fundamental policy shift in commercial transportation regulations, and it involves the complexities of national security, immigration, and basic safety. HMD Trucking is a Chicago-based carrier […]
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AI Chip Demand Creates New Global Supply Chain Strains
By Felecia Stratton | December 3, 2025 Global supply chains are facing a fresh challenge: surging demand for advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers. A new report from Reuters shows demand for advanced high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used to power AI data centers has boomed so sharply that manufacturers are diverting production […]
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Somewhere Henry Ford is Smiling
Henry Ford revolutionized car manufacturing by inventing the moving assembly line. Besides saving time and money, that new process made the Model T affordable and ubiquitous. Today, thousands of vehicle plants around the world still use that method. Using Ford’s method, modern vehicle assembly lines are a moving and sequential process where a car’s frame—called […]
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The Hidden Cost of Inefficient Inbound Operations — and How Visibility Changes Everything
When operations leaders talk about supply chain performance, the conversation almost always starts with outbound: on-time delivery, fill rates, and transportation spend. But the truth is, the story of outbound success often begins on the inbound dock—and too often, that story is one of delay, chaos, and unseen cost. The Invisible Bottleneck Inbound operations are […]
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Will AI Replace Freight Brokers? Understanding the Future of Brokerage in a Tech-Driven Supply Chain
As artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and machine learning advance across the supply chain, one question has moved to the forefront of logistics conversations: Will AI replace freight brokers? The short answer: Total replacement is unlikely, but transformation is inevitable. AI is already reshaping how brokers quote freight, match loads, communicate with carriers, and manage data. […]
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Direct-to-Customer Delivery Guide
When your customer needs the product right away, these providers offer the technology and delivery networks to make it happen quickly and cost effectively.
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Supply-Chain Shorts: UPS and Caterpillar News, Tequila Cargo Theft & More
Return to Sender UPS is reportedly “disposing” of some packages unable to clear U.S. Customs following regulatory changes that ended the long-standing “de minimis” exemption, which had allowed duty-free entry for goods valued under $800. The change imposed new tariffs and fees on more than 1 billion packages annually. UPS officials told NBC News that […]
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