The Hidden Costs of Inefficient Warehousing
Warehousing costs extend beyond leases and labor. Optimized warehouse management systems remove the hidden costs caused by inefficiencies.
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Who Pays the Freight? Why This Idiom Matters
The party responsible for freight controls the visibility, execution, and oversight of transportation decisions
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USPS, DHL eCommerce Expand Long-Term Final-Mile Partnership With $10 Billion Parcel Delivery Agreement
For USPS, the agreement offers stable parcel volume growth as the organization continues trying to offset structural declines in traditional mail. For DHL, the partnership avoids the substantial capital investment required to build a nationwide residential delivery operation from scratch.
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Ecommerce Networks: An Insider’s View
A few years ago, I sat with a midmarket retailer who admitted something I hear more often than most people might expect: “We built our network for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.”
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Kindness, Curiosity, and Featherweight Sewing Machines
Bill Stankiewicz, the veteran managing director of Savannah Supply Chain, shares the personal lessons that shaped his compassionate and disciplined leadership style–from saving for college to famously saving an employee’s job.
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New Robot Sense: Space Perception via sound
Sonair’s ultrasonic technology adds sound-powered 3D spatial awareness to robot perception. Moving beyond the prototype phase, the technology is now in production.
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10 Tips for Supply Chain Leadership Lessons
Behind every supply chain decision are real people balancing speed, cost, risk, and relationships. Effective leaders recognize that technology matters, but success is ultimately defined by how they support people, make tradeoffs, and handle change.
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You Diversified Your Suppliers, But What About Your Robots?
We often think about supply chain risk as something that happens upstream: an extreme weather event delaying a shipment from a single-source supplier or a carrier battling a data breach. That’s no longer the whole picture here. There are risks just as serious much closer to home.
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Macrologistics & Micrologistics: A Modern Framework for Unlocking Logistics Performance
In today’s competitive landscape, logistics has evolved from a back‑office necessity into one of the most powerful levers for business performance and differentiation. Yet despite its potential, many organizations still struggle to extract meaningful value from their logistics operations. The reason is straightforward: logistics is often treated as a single, monolithic function—broad, complex, and difficult […]
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TMS and DRP: The Recipe for Resilience
Ajinomoto Foods North America (AFNA) worked with EY Consulting and Blue Yonder to digitize its largely manual resource planning system and logistics processes that were hampering AFNA’s visibility, service, and efficiency.
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1 in 6 Women Truckers Experience Harassment. These Truck Stops Are Doing Something About It.
Data shows truck stops are the most common site of harassment against women drivers. WIM and Trucker Path are using technology and $200 million in federal backing to make stopping safer for women on the road.
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Fill Rate Explained: Benefits, Fill Rate Formula, and More
In wholesale, retail, and logistics operations, fill rate is one of the most important indicators of inventory performance and customer service. This guide is intended for supply chain professionals, inventory managers, and business leaders seeking to optimize order fulfillment and customer satisfaction. Understanding and optimizing fill rate is crucial for maintaining customer loyalty and operational […]
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IN BRIEF: Rail Growth, AI Automation, and Warehouse Expansion
3PL CEVA Logistics opened a new warehouse in Dubai South Free Zone, an emerging logistics hub in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council region. Designed for ecommerce customers, the nearly 250,000-square-foot facility, which opened in January 2026, handles more than 30,000 units per day.
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TMS Solutions: New Capabilities, Rich Possibilities
Shippers operating without a transportation management system are leaving real money on the table. Today’s integrated TMS solutions are the map and the key, opening a treasure chest of financial governance, real-time visibility, and the intelligence needed to run smart.
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Why Carrier Costing Is Becoming Core Logistics Infrastructure
Carrier costing is no longer just a back-office accounting function. Modern costing systems now support pricing strategy, emissions reporting, operational visibility, and stronger shipper-carrier collaboration across the supply chain.
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Supply Chain Tech Landscape: From Resilience to Orchestration
The deep integration of artificial intelligence as a “system of action” is the most significant shift revealed in Inbound Logistics’ annual supply chain technology survey. No longer is AI a standalone feature; it has become the bedrock of enterprise execution. That shift reflects in this year’s Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Providers. Aera […]
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What 3PLs and Freight Forwarders Get Wrong About SaaS
What most organizations are actually seeking is relief from managing infrastructure—not a specific deployment model. “SaaS” can represent several architectural models.
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Measure Twice, Automate Once: Don’t Build on a Shaky Foundation
Before investing in robotics, make sure your WMS and processes are built to support it.
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Alaska Finds An Edge
Building on solid partnerships with companies that know the terrain and how to navigate it, the Last Frontier is taking off as a partner in global supply chains and energy markets.
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Amazon Just Wholesale’d Its Supply Chain. What Happens Now?
Amazon’s new logistics offering is bigger than the headlines suggest. Here’s a breakdown of what it means for shippers and 3PLs.
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