Articles
November 2024
VAI and Kinnunen: Constructing Efficient Inventory Management
Kinnunen, a family-owned business that offers a range of construction supplies—from air compressors to wood glue—has enjoyed so much growth that its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system was struggling to keep up. This hindered the company’s ability to effectively manage inventory and serve customers.
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Securing the Core Through Third-Party Risk Management
In today’s intricate global business landscape, robust third-party risk management (TPRM) and supply chain oversight frameworks are indispensable for maintaining operational integrity, adequate security, and regulatory compliance.
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AI and the Essential Supply Chain Worker
When it comes to AI in the supply chain, we can choose fear or embrace change. Only one approach is likely to be successful.
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Building a Future-Ready Supply Chain; Intermodal Rebounds; Strategic Shoring Gains Favor; and Other Logistics News
A look at the latest news stories in global supply chain and logistics.
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Upgrading Your Supply Chain Skill Set
By implementing these action items, professionals and students can better prepare themselves for the complexities of modern supply chain management.
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Why We Need Advanced Manufacturing
What I learned over 40 years in manufacturing is that innovation and manufacturing are intertwined. Brilliant scientists and engineers invented some of the world’s most innovative and impactful products, and many of them need to be manufactured on innovative processes.
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Supply Chain Technologies that Empower the Human Workforce See Growing Investments
The 2024 MHI Annual Report, “The Collaborative Supply Chain,” shows companies are leveraging artificial intelligence and other technologies in a human-centric way.
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DC Automation Gets Real
While pie-in-the-sky technologies capture imaginations, these systems do the heavy lifting and boost worker safety and productivity in warehouses right now.
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EDI Isn’t Dying—It’s Evolving and Can Be Integrated with API
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain famously said upon reading his own premature obituary. The same can be said about EDI software.
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Customer Service—A Magnet for More Business
Customer service beyond expectations can act as a magnet for more business. It’s a force that an independent Landstar agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has put into practice.
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Shippers Get On Board With Air Cargo
As ecommerce soars and global trade accelerates, the demand for air freight solutions is a boarding pass to the future. But can capacity keep up with the industry’s rapid ascent?
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Fast Track to Expedited Shipping Success
Expedited shipping helps organizations elevate their competitive edge, enhance customer satisfaction, and swiftly respond to supply chain disruptions—all while keeping inventory costs in check. Here’s how to speed expedited shipping success.
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When Robotics, Starlink, and AI Converge: What’s Next?
The maturation and convergence of three technologies—robotics, Starlink, and artificial intelligence—will revolutionize the practice of supply chain management across the globe. I know you have heard that before, but this time it is not hyperbole. When these three technologies converge, much of how we manage logistics today will be legacy, a fading memory in a […]
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