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January 2025

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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Big and Bulky Needs an Overhaul Beyond Logistics
The Mount Everest of delivery is the high-risk, high-reward segment known as big and bulky, where retailers can make more money if they get it right and leave their reputation in tatters and coffers empty with a few missteps.
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Achieving Effective Logistics Visibility
Funneling tracking data from multiple sources into core business processes to provide reliable arrival times reduces safety stock, bolsters resilience, and drives fulfillment.
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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
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
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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8 Trends Influencing Freight Rail in 2025
As we look ahead into 2025, we see factors such as consumer confidence, energy pricing, and deregulation—among others—providing a more favorable environment for short-term growth and long-term planning for the rail freight industry.
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What’s Your Supply Chain Vision for 2025?
From sure-fire predictions to major trends to watch, industry experts outline the year ahead.
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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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Global Logistics Leader Rallies Support in Rebuilding Ukraine
Logistics Plus blends business investment with humanitarian support.
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How to Combat Cargo Theft With ID Verification
Logistics and supply chain operations are grappling with an alarming surge in cargo theft; recent data highlights the severity of the issue.
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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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Simple Math, Big Impact: Common Sense Inventory Strategies
As a mathematician/engineer, I love advanced analytics as much as the next person. But as a practical person, I can assure you that you don’t need advanced analytics to make substantial improvements for your company. All you need is basic algebra and some time to think.
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Razr Logistics: Transforming On-Demand Warehousing With Innovative Technology & Our Expansive Network
In an era where agility and efficiency define success in the logistics and 3PL industry, Razr Logistics has emerged as a trailblazer, revolutionizing the concept of on-demand warehousing.
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Warehouse Robotics Unlock Efficiencies
From AI-powered AMRs to cobots working safely alongside humans, cutting-edge robotics are transforming supply chain operations. See how the latest innovations are changing the game and driving efficiency.
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Interview with New York & Atlantic Railway President: Riding the Rails to Economic Growth
Marlon Taylor found a career with a short line railroad too cool to resist. Today, he navigates challenges, sustainability, and innovation at New York & Atlantic Railway by emphasizing adaptability, resilience, teamwork and communication, and leading with empathy.
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Are More Women In Critical Logistics Roles?
Are more women playing important roles in transportation and logistics? The simple answer is: yes.
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