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End-to-end Supply Chain: E2E Meaning, Benefits, & How to Implement
Learn MoreAdopting an E2E supply chain ensures businesses stay competitive by optimizing workflows and strengthening supply chain planning. The ability to track performance across the supply chain end enhances adaptability and customer satisfaction.
5 Types of Risk in Supply Chain Management
This guide breaks down five types of risk in supply chain management, showing how environmental risks, financial threats, and market shifts can hit operations hard.
Walmart Bets Big on Drones
Walmart is banking on drone deliveries to continue dominating both the last-mile delivery sector and the broader retail industry. This drone strategy is long-term and based on Walmart’s research showing that younger consumers (ages 18-35) are the most likely to use drone delivery services. Younger consumers, accustomed to organizing their lives around iPhones and apps, […]
Prioritizing Technology Upgrades in a Multi-Client Warehouse Environment
As industry demand grows and client business evolves, it’s the role of the solution provider to be able to quickly respond to accommodate their growth. MD Logistics accomplishes this by pinpointing key upgrades.
State of Logistics Report; The Latest Data on Cross-Border Trade; Spotlight on Autonomous Supply Chains & other Logistics News
News, trends, and insights on the latest in global logistics and supply chain management.
Freight Fraud: 5 Ways to Mitigate Risk
Freight fraud is becoming increasingly commonplace across the U.S. supply chain. In fact, 72% of respondents to a 2024 Transportation Intermediaries Association survey experienced at least three different types of fraud—everything from phishing and brokerage scams to cyberattacks, and fraudulent inbound phone calls and text messages.
Unlocking Revenue Growth With AI
In the modern service economy, businesses face growing pressure to deliver value-driven customer experiences while maximizing profitability. Yet, many organizations remain tethered to outdated tools and manual processes that hinder operational efficiency and scalability.
The End of Cost-Plus: A Legacy Pricing Model in a High-Performance Supply Chain
A Case for Performance-Based Pricing
Rare Earth Elements: What’s the Drill?
While rare earths are not exactly “rare” (even the rarest of these elements, thulium, is 125 times more common than gold), these critical metals present tricky supply chain challenges and opportunities for companies to mine:
Fashion in Flux: How Apparel Brands Are Battling Tariffs, Demand Dips, and Supply Chain Snarls
Leading brands like Gap Inc., Lululemon, and American Eagle prepare for trade uncertainty.
Types of Cargo: Key Factors, How They’re Transported, and Handling Requirements
Cargo means goods or products moved from one place to another for cargo transportation. In the shipping industry and global trade, understanding different types of cargo helps optimize how goods reach their destination. Businesses rely on shipping companies and logistics companies to handle bulk cargo, liquid bulk cargo, general cargo, and more. Proper transport vehicles […]
Fantasy Farms and Fintech: A Blooming Success
Each year, Fantasy Farms grows more than 50 million stems of flowers across its own farms and by working with qualified growers in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico. The company regularly supplies 8,000-plus retail locations and 30,000-plus locations during major holidays.
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Consumers Want More Action on Sustainability
Learn MoreThe 2022 Retail and Sustainability Survey from global business applications firm CGS illustrates the demand for sustainability, even at the cost of losing expedited shipping times.
What’s the biggest supply chain silo?
Readers shine a light on the most significant information lapses and data gaps in the supply chain, from transportation siloes to the lack of visibility into suppliers.
Higher Transport Rates on the Horizon
Fuel surcharges, market forces, and easing truckload growth rates are driving up parcel and LTL rates, says Cowen/AFS’s 2022 Freight Index.
What pandemic-era adjustment will have the greatest supply chain impact?
The acceleration of digital twins. The ability to digitally model a company’s manufacturing and distribution network will allow it to quickly assess the impact of large and small disruptions and take appropriate actions. —Allen Jacques Industry Thought Leader Kinaxis The use of data analytics to help suppliers really understand consumer behavior. Suppliers decided to eliminate […]
NOTED: The Supply Chain In Brief
The latest mergers & acquisitions, logistics contracts, sustainability initiatives, humanitarian logistics efforts and more. Good Works The Coca-Cola Company, based in Atlanta, donated $1 million to the Technical College System of Georgia Foundation’s Commercial Truck Driving Program. The donation funds driver training programs and helps ensure more drivers are in the pipeline to fill trucking […]
Supply Chain Helps Meet ESG Goals
As corporations become increasingly focused on ESG initiatives, their supply chain and logistics partners respond with tools and services designed to help them grow sustainability and other goals.
2022 75 Green Supply Chain Partners
Inbound Logistics editors select 75 companies going above and beyond to prioritize green initiatives and help global supply chains become more sustainable. These companies are dedicated to developing and implementing best practices that leave a positive footprint on the world.
Chemical Logistics: Critical Challenges Drive Creativity
Chemical shippers and their partners keep critical shipments moving safely and efficiently—refining their strategies and getting creative despite considerable challenges. Here’s how leading providers formulate solutions for the chemical industry.
Vertical Focus: Footwear
China SC Woes Have Footwear Industry Tied In Knots The impact on the supply chain from lockdowns in China was a major themefor footwear retailers in the first half of 2022. Largely reporting lower-than-expected earnings, many major footwear brands pointed a finger at the lockdowns to explain their disappointing performance levels. Strict and extended COVID-19 […]
To Efficiently Unload Trucks, You First Need to Dance: A Winning Collaboration Between DHL Supply Chain and Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics has established a reputation as one of the most innovative and advanced robotics companies in the world. Much of this reputation has grown through the many videos of its dancing robots. And, while the videos are fun, they also serve a very real purpose in spurring innovation and advancing robotic technology. The videos, […]
Supply Chain Knowledge Center
End-to-end Supply Chain: E2E Meaning, Benefits, & How to Implement
Learn MoreAdopting an E2E supply chain ensures businesses stay competitive by optimizing workflows and strengthening supply chain planning. The ability to track performance across the supply chain end enhances adaptability and customer satisfaction.
5 Types of Risk in Supply Chain Management
This guide breaks down five types of risk in supply chain management, showing how environmental risks, financial threats, and market shifts can hit operations hard.
Types of Cargo: Key Factors, How They’re Transported, and Handling Requirements
Cargo means goods or products moved from one place to another for cargo transportation. In the shipping industry and global trade, understanding different types of cargo helps optimize how goods reach their destination. Businesses rely on shipping companies and logistics companies to handle bulk cargo, liquid bulk cargo, general cargo, and more. Proper transport vehicles […]
Supply Chain Resilience: What It Is, Common Disruptions, and How to Build
Supply chain resilience refers to a company’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover quickly from unexpected disruptions. Businesses now face constant challenges like natural disasters, geopolitical risks, and the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. These events expose weaknesses in even the most efficient supply chain models. Supply chain leaders are under pressure […]
The Best Mapping Software for Location Intelligence
Choosing accurate mapping software is essential for businesses that use location intelligence. This field has seen steady growth. The global market is projected to reach $63.8 billion by 2032, with steady demand from retail, logistics, and urban planning. Maptive stands out as the best mapping software for location intelligence due to its precision, speed, and […]
Vendors vs Suppliers: The Differences and Why It Matters
Vendors and suppliers are both business entities that play different roles in the supply chain. Suppliers provide raw materials, while vendors sell finished products to other businesses or the final customer, operating in distinct capacities depending on the products’ use and sales channels. The key difference lies in what each business entity provides to the […]
