Commentary
Supply Chains Go Dark at the Dock Door
Two decades of visibility spending have run outward and upstream: control towers, ETAs, port dwell, carrier scorecards. The farther the freight sits from the building, the more precisely it is watched.
Growing Pains
It’s good news, bad news time. The good news is that purchasing managers see economic growth for the foreseeable future, according to the Institute of Supply Management, which surveys purchasing managers monthly. These Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) surveys produce a key economic indicator that measures the health of both the manufacturing and service sectors. The […]
Demand-Driven AI?
Do you still rely on rearview mirror forecasting to run your front-line manufacturing operations? No bueno. For decades, the standard S&OP playbook meant extrapolating last year’s sales, tacking on a hopeful percentage bump for good luck, and praying your suppliers wouldn’t hit a wall. But in today’s volatile global supply chain ecosystem, historical data isn’t […]
Case Studies
The Art of Scaling Up: How Aisya Aziz Balances Code, Clarity, and Culture
Aisya Aziz, LiquiDonate’s CTO, started out customizing MySpace pages as a teenager. Today, she scales the smart technology that reroutes retail returns directly into the hands of families in need.
Brian Waite: Pump Company Freight Manager Takes a Multimodal Approach
Discover how Brian Waite, Global Freight Manager at WMFTS, leverages a multimodal freight strategy—balancing ocean and air—to cut costs and keep supply moving.
Delivering the Route to a More Efficient Fleet
Richard’s Building Supply maintains operations in more than 60 locations across 14 states. Even so, it managed and tracked its fleet of several hundred vehicles via “a paper-process with old-fashioned delivery boards and a GPS system,” says Jenny Vetter, the company’s logistics manager.
How-To
10 Tips for Preparing for Peak Season
As manufacturers, distributors, and retailers prepare for peak season across their entire supply chains, implementing these tips will help with reduced risk, higher customer satisfaction, and more consistent execution of every step in the order process.
10 Tips for Building a Strong Workforce
As labor shortages intensify, warehouses must look beyond traditional hiring strategies. Expanding your potential talent pool and improving onboarding, communication, and workplace technology can help unlock productivity and retention gains.
10 Tips for Mapping AI to Resilience
Giving AI a complete, real-world picture of operations—the actual decisions, constraints, exceptions, and workarounds that define how work gets done—is what enables it to identify risks and drive resilient supply chain outcomes.