Articles
January 2026
Follow This Roadmap To a Lean, Sustainable Supply Chain
Few companies realize that, when implemented in the supply chain, Lean and Green are not contradictory but can be mutually beneficial. This is a good reason for firms to adopt an integrated Lean and Green strategy.
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Lush Gets a Store-Level Inventory Control Makeover
Lush, the cosmetics company known for its fresh and handmade products, has experienced tremendous growth. Across the globe, it boasts more than 850 store locations, including more than 250 in North America.
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Seeing Around the Next Bend
Global supply networks involve many partners and recent shocks have shown how quickly a single disruption can ripple through the system. Traditional visibility stitched together data from transportation, warehouse, and enterprise systems and augmented it with GPS or RFID tags; those tools provide only snapshots of past movements.
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Are Humans in “The Loop” of Your Future-fit Strategy?
I recently counseled a stealth startup on its go-to-market strategy. It’s a familiar story—Silicon Valley-based, computer science DNA, venture capital funding, and an ambition to jump on the AI train and automate backend processes better than predecessors.
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Powering Progress with Electrification
The utility sector is at the heart of an electrification wave. As societies pivot from fossil fuels to electricity, utilities and power generation companies are not just managing grids; they are driving the charge. Power providers are being asked to deliver more electricity than ever—faster, cleaner, and more reliably—while modernizing outdated infrastructure and contending with fragile global supply chains.
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How Data Can Fix Demand Matching
Supply-demand mismatches are more than just inconvenient; they are costly. From inflated transportation spend to missed SLAs, poor alignment erodes both profitability and customer trust. The solution? Advanced analytics, not just for hindsight, but for foresight and real-time agility.
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Enabling Smarter Government Logistics
If I have learned one thing in my decades of navigating defense logistics, it’s that we can’t afford to solve tomorrow’s readiness problems with yesterday’s systems. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the first new technology with the viability to change how we forecast demand, manage obsolescence, and optimize supply chains. But the path to realizing its potential is met with structural, cultural, and bureaucratic hurdles.
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Mastering the Last Mile of Premium, Perishable Food
For the past decade, Crowd Cow has partnered with ethical farms, fisheries and other food producers from around the world to source sustainable, quality beef, seafood, pork, and other items. By sourcing from small farms and managing the processing, Crowd Cow can bring its products to many consumers who otherwise might not have access to them. At the same time, Crowd Cow offers many of its suppliers a customer base they might struggle to reach.
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Humble Bragg: Ashton Roberts Bridges Sales, Supply Chain, and B Corp
RESPONSIBILITIES: Implementing data-driven forecasting models, enhancing supplier partnerships, leveraging technology to increase agility and reduce waste, and modernizing the company’s supply chains without compromising quality or values. EXPERIENCE: Manager of supply chain and analytics, senior supply chain analyst, supply chain analyst, all with Bragg; research analyst life cycle, carbon, and zero energy, New Buildings Institute; […]
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Synchronizing the Supply Chain: Building Shared Consciousness
Technology bridges awareness and action. Organizations that operate from one truth can shift from reactive firefighting to proactive margin management.
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BUILT TO LAST: Inside Harley Davidson’s Evolving Supply Chain
From hand-built engines and just-in-time inventory to electrification and global sourcing, Harley-Davidson’s supply chain is revving up for a future that balances heritage with transformation.
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Building a Continuous Vendor Feedback Loop with TransportGistics
In today’s fast-paced supply chains, vendor performance directly impacts your ability to deliver on time and on budget. Stop relying on ad hoc reviews and static scorecards.
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Riding the 2026 Wave
While doom-scrolling through Facebook late one night, I saw a painting by a friend that captured something I hadn’t quite been able to put into words—so much so that I reached out and asked if we could use it for our January cover. It perfectly reflects a good way to look at the year ahead. […]
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Why Transportation Strategy Can’t Be Static in a Volatile Market
Transportation planning is often anchored to historical pricing, static forecasts, and the belief that volatility is temporary. But that’s no longer the environment we’re facing.
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The Differences Between Long-Term 3PL Partnerships and Short-Term Contracts
With volatility becoming the norm in the supply chain, shippers have begun reevaluating their third-party logistics (3PL) providers. Here’s how to choose the right 3PL model.
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When Minutes Mattered: An After-Hours Save That Averted A Critical Line-Down Overnight
Keeping production moving for a manufacturer, ProTrans quickly coordinated a late-night charter flight and delivered a critical shipment under extreme time pressure and demanding circumstances.
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10 Tips for Improving Yard Visibility
Transportation and warehouse activities may be well tracked, but once a trailer enters the yard, visibility breaks down. Improving visibility is not a data problem but an operating model problem, requiring a system governing how work is planned, executed, measured, and improved—making visibility actionable rather than merely descriptive.
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Scaling Without Losing Control: How a Modern WMS Supports Sustainable Growth
A modern warehouse management system can address the core pain points of growing warehouses, enabling them to scale, maintain accuracy, and improve performance.
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3 Ways Outdated WMS Systems Are Killing Your 3PL Business
If your warehouse management system can’t deliver confidence, control, and clarity, your best clients are already evaluating competitors.
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Building a Reputable Brand as a 3PL within the Life Science and Pharmaceuticals Industry
2026 marks MD Logistics’ 30th year in business. Here’s how the 3PL built a reputation as a leading partner within one of the most regulated industries.
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