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January 2025

2025 Winter Reading Guide

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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Automation Takes Blue Sky From Growing Pains to Growing Gains

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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Time to Sweat Your Warehouse Assets?

Time to Sweat Your Warehouse Assets?

Success in the warehouse is often synonymous with warehouse performance. In retail, this means meeting growing throughput and capacity requirements. Those responsible for ensuring materials handling facilities are up to the task, however, must compete for budget dollars by making a compelling business case for investments.

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Christina Nemeyer’s Unexpected Path to Procurement Success

Christina Nemeyer’s Unexpected Path to Procurement Success

RESPONSIBILITIES: Oversee the team responsible for establishing national account programs for indirect spend, leveraging PFG’s scale to generate value. EXPERIENCE: Senior manager, corporate strategic sourcing, and corporate sourcing manager, PFG. Fuel supervisor, Estes Express Lines. Inventory control and loss prevention supervisor, S&K Menswear. Market loss prevention manager, Shoe Carnival, Inc. Regional loss prevention analyst and […]

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Small Businesses, Big Supply Chains

Small Businesses, Big Supply Chains

From cloud-based shipping solutions to AI-powered inventory management, small businesses harness cutting-edge technology to scale like never before. Here’s how strategic partnerships, outsourcing logistics, and leveraging data-driven insights help SMBs streamline operations, meet demand, and enhance the customer experience—proving that size doesn’t limit success.

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Hype vs. Reality: The Promise of AI  in Supply Chains

Hype vs. Reality: The Promise of AI in Supply Chains

AI-driven solutions are often hailed as the silver bullet for today’s supply chain challenges. The hype promises faster operations, cost savings, reduced risk, and streamlined customer service—but how much of this is reality? Here’s a look at the tangible impacts AI is having on supply chains, dissecting where it truly delivers and where expectations may need a reality check.

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From Fax to the Future:  Do It Best Reinvents Its Supply Chain

From Fax to the Future: Do It Best Reinvents Its Supply Chain

Aiming to keep pace with the rapidly expanding home improvement market, Do It Best—a member-owned hardware, lumber, and building materials buying cooperative—sought to replace its outdated manual processes with a streamlined, automated system. Since providing exceptional service to its members is crucial to the cooperative’s success, Do It Best partnered with Redwood Logistics to enhance its transportation management system (TMS).

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