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Rethinking Supply Chain Strategy In an Era of Persistent Volatility
Q. What’s different about what shippers are facing in 2026 versus prior years of disruption? A. Over the past five or six years, supply chains have been challenged like almost never before. A first round of tariffs, then COVID, then more tariffs, various conflicts, and now renewed trade policy volatility. As I’ve described it, it’s […]
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Overcoming Geopolitical Uncertainty and Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Q. What are some notable shifts and opportunities facing the freight market? A. Many consumers of raw and finished commodities continue to search for alternative sources—enter Latin and South America. These channels heading both north and south are becoming more favorable than ever. The border between Mexico and the United States has seen its challenges, […]
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Creating a Responsive and Scalable Rail Supply Chain
Q. What are the biggest challenges facing rail shippers today? A. Rail shippers aren’t dealing with a lack of data—they’re dealing with too much of it in too many places. Across the supply chain, information is often fragmented across multiple systems, spreadsheets, and carrier touchpoints. At the same time, many organizations lack a rail strategy […]
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A Sustainable Partnership Provides a Custom Solution: Reusable Packaging
For 30 years, MD Logistics has served the pharmaceutical industry. The third-party logistics provider builds customized solutions to fit their clients’ unique supply chain needs.
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Keeping Freight Moving Through A Critical Transition
As Ahold Delhaize USA brought inbound freight management back in-house, Trinity Logistics helped ensure freight kept moving without disruption.
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3PL Delivers Supply Chain Makeover for Beauty Company
Providing advanced ecommerce fulfillment, specialized hazmat handling, and intelligent shipping optimization, Verst Logistics streamlined and integrated its client’s supply chain operations.
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Build the Capability to Respond Fast
The margin between a manageable delay and a costly stoppage is razor-thin and continues to narrow. So if you’re preparing for disruption, you’re already behind.
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Barrett Distribution Centers: Turning a Security Challenge into a Cost-Savings Win
At Barrett Distribution Centers, we’re always looking for ways to do more than just move product — we want to move the needle for our customers. This case study is a great example of what happens when a strong partnership, some honest problem-solving, and the right technology come together.
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Freight Damage: The Claim Is Only a Fraction of the Cost
Most companies measure the claim. The smartest companies measure business impact.**
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Building a Quality-Driven Cold Chain For Temperature-Sensitive Freight
How process alignment, monitoring, and documentation are reshaping expectations beyond temperature control
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The Retail Freight Strategy That Gives Shippers an Edge
As the supply chain moves from back-office function to board-level priority, one logistics strategy has become a powerful tool for shippers: retail freight consolidation.
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The New Operating Model For Warehouse Performance
Four pillars of high-performing operations have emerged: workforce resilience, operational flexibility, automation readiness, and performance management.
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When P&L Stalls: What Your Freight Metrics Are Telling You
When profitability stalls, freight data often reveals where margin is quietly being lost.
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Your Inbound Program Works. Can It Scale?
What separates good inbound operations from great ones is how, and whether, the way you manage it today can handle where your business is going.
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The Crew Behind Your Cargo: Why Seafarer Shortages Are the Supply Chain Risk Nobody Is Tracking
Supply chain managers have learned to track everything: port congestion, container availability, fuel surcharges, canal transit times. Yet the single input that keeps every one of those variables moving — the people who actually operate the ships — rarely appears on a risk dashboard. That is a blind spot the industry can no longer afford.
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On-Site Container Storage: A Flexible Answer to the Warehouse Capacity Squeeze
Warehouse space is one of the least flexible lines on a logistics budget. A lease is a multi-year commitment sized to a forecast, yet the demand it serves is rarely steady. Seasonal peaks, promotional surges, new product launches, and the safety stock rebuilt after a supply disruption all push storage requirements up and down on […]
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Cloud-Based TMS Streamlines Operations Into One Workflow
Helping teams eliminate duplicate data entry and move freight faster, Tai TMS brings quoting, booking, tracking, document management, audit, and invoicing into one connected workflow.
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Report: Supply Chains 2026
Supply chains are entering a new phase of transformation. What was once built around efficiency and cost is now being rebuilt around resilience, visibility, and the ability to execute reliably across increasingly complex global networks. Trade volatility, regulatory pressure, and the growing role of AI are reshaping how organizations plan, source, move, and manage goods […]
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Carrier Fraud Prevention: Who’s Really Vetting Your Carriers?
Q. Carrier fraud is getting a lot of attention across the industry right now. Where does the problem actually come from? A. Public load boards. Carrier fraud does not typically originate with shippers—it originates on public load boards that lack user subscription vetting controls. When a broker posts a load to a public board to […]
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Logistics In Hawaii: Sustaining Supply Chains
Logistics companies serving the Hawaiian Islands cultivate resilience while navigating unique challenges, including unpredictable weather events.
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