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14 Moves to Master Demand Surges
Effectively managing increases in demand requires a strategic series of moves—each one calculated to advance your position and ultimately put surges in checkmate.
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How to Prepare for Nearshoring
Nearshoring is experiencing a resurgence, mainly due to lessons learned from supply chain shortages and delays during the pandemic. Shippers realize there is much to gain from nearshoring, including reduced costs, shorter wait times and increased efficiencies.
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Green & Red Flags: How to Select the Right 3PL
Choosing the right third-party logistics provider doesn’t have to be an uphill climb. Here are the green flag signals that can lead to a winning partnership and the red flags to leave behind.
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Project Logistics Spotlight: Heavy Lifting, Sensitive Cargo
From ensuring safe delivery of rare or injured animals to transporting oversized machinery, project logistics requirements are unique and complex. Here’s how DHL, FedEx, Lufthansa Cargo, and other transportation providers tackle unique, high-value shipments with precision, care, and efficiency during every leg of the journey.
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Automating Your Warehouse Without the Heavy Lifting
A new generation of simplified, flexible ASRS solutions makes it easier than ever to streamline operations and boost productivity — without the heavy lifting of costly facility renovations.
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Tackling Tariffs and Trade Headaches: How to Overcome Supply Chain Visibility Gaps and Global Barriers
Supply chain and logistics managers face global trade barriers and geopolitical risk and uncertainty. Here’s how to handle tariffs and prepare for supply chain disruptions.
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FOCUS ON: Nearshoring
Nearshoring: Hype or Happening? While businesses of all types are exploring the idea of reorganizing supply chains so manufacturing and production occurs closer to the United States—with the focus largely on Mexico—it’s still unclear exactly how much traction nearshoring has gained. Some experts say nearshoring is definitely here to stay, while others claim the buzzworthy […]
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NOTED: Supply Chain Highlights
HappyRobot, which provides AI-powered voice solutions for the logistics sector, secured $15.6 million in Series A funding.
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Most Read Articles of 2024
From boosting supply chain visibility to optimizing warehouse labor and turbocharging last-mile delivery, these are the articles that resonated most with our audience last year.
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Bolting Ahead: Specialty Bolt & Screw Tightens its Supply Chain
Specialty Bolt & Screw, Inc. (SBS), a leading provider of fastening solutions, offers more than 15,000 SKUs across 12 locations, and manages a complex global supply chain. As a result, it required a more efficient and accurate inventory management and forecast function than it was able to achieve with its older, homegrown system.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Savage opened a new Niagara Transload facility at the Thorold Multimodal Hub in Ontario. Located in the Golden Horseshoe, the facility provides connections between rail, maritime, and truck transportation, which can reduce transport costs for the manufacturing, agriculture, and construction industries.
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Tariff(ic) Counterwinds Ahead, Are You Ready?
The upcoming year could be tough for the supply chain with expected new administration tariffs, stricter immigration policies, and potentially new port strikes that all could begin in early 2025.
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RFID Drives Visibility, Sustainability
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is at the forefront of helping tackle the sustainability challenge by enabling visibility across the entire supply chain journey, allowing retailers to track and mitigate waste.
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The High Cost of Hidden Workarounds
Costly problems stemming from excessive paperwork, manual workarounds, and hidden work remain deeply nestled throughout inbound logistics processes, out of sight from senior leadership.
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Podcast Roundup: Hear & Now
Our audience played these 12 podcasts on repeat in 2024. Listen for insights on everything from dedicated transportation solutions to nearshoring to managing supply chain disruptions.
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The Power of Single-Source Partnerships
To maintain a competitive edge, every aspect of a supplier’s operation must operate seamlessly. Opting for multiple logistics vendors may initially seem like a way to increase flexibility, but this approach often leads to fragmented communication, inconsistent service levels, and added complexities.
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What Would You Put in a Supply Chain Time Capsule to be Opened in 2050?
From a toy forklift to a conveyor belt to paper documents, here are the relics from 2025 that our readers say will amuse and surprise supply chain professionals in 2050.
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2025 Winter Reading Guide
Cozy up this winter with our curated reading list, featuring 12 essential books for logistics and supply chain professionals. Whether you’re navigating the complexities of global trade, exploring GenAI, or optimizing last-mile delivery, these titles are packed with the insights you need.
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9 Regulations Reshaping Global Logistics: Here’s How to Decode Them
Navigating the complex maze of regulations—from CBAM to the UFLPA—can feel like searching for hidden words in a difficult puzzle. With increased scrutiny on environmental, labor, and consumer impacts, global supply chains must stay ahead of the shifting regulatory landscape.
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Automation Takes Blue Sky From Growing Pains to Growing Gains
Growing demand was an enviable problem for Blue Sky Distribution, a family-owned distributor of 3,500-plus grocery, tobacco, and other products to wholesale, big-box, and ecommerce customers across much of the western United States. To effectively onboard and serve new customers, including major grocery and convenience stores, it needed to automate several manual processes.
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