Feature Stories
Automation and Robotics Go Arm in Arm
Today’s robotics innovators are offering warehouses a range of automation solutions that are more flexible, affordable, and scalable than conventional systems.
Supply Chain Education: Cramming for Success
As the business world evolves, so do the skills companies seek in graduates of supply chain programs. Today’s supply chain leaders need to understand technology, analytics, operations, and strategy, as well as resilience and risk management.
Supply Chain Finance: You Can Bank On It
Using supply chain finance to successfully manage cash flows enables companies to cut debt and boost profitability.
9 Steps to Safeguard Your Digital Supply Chain
Even as digital supply chains have become more critical, they’ve also become increasingly vulnerable to attack. Here's how to safeguard your information.
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Selecting a TMS
Given the sheer number of options available, it is critical to determine the best Transportation Management System (TMS) for your operation based on its unique needs to maximize potential before making a decision.
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Knowledge Base
Filling the Supply Chain Education Gap with LTL Education Courses
If there's one immutable truth in the world of logistics, it's this: LTL is an inherently complex form of transportation. The solution to this knowledge gap has historically been on-the-job training, but there is now a pressing need for third-party, remote training that prepares logistics workers for transportation success.
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Manhattan Active WMS for a Leading USA Retailer
A major retailer sought to modernize supply chain operations, turning to ITOrizon as its system integrator. ITOrizon implemented a new warehouse management system and ensured it was functional and effective.
Thought Leaders
Is the Dynamic Unified Logical Data Model the Silver Bullet for Disruptions?
An adaptive unified logical data model augmented with semantics creates a real-time master data lake with a deep business context. It allows businesses to gain real-time supply chain insights from customers, markets, partners, production, distribution, logistics, and environments.
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Checking InKeith Biondo
Bullwhip or Just Bull?
There is clearly a bull market in reshoring and nearshoring as global supply chains reconfigure. But as things normalize, will the reshoring trend be long-term company policy or just another example of the bullwhip effect?
Online ExclusiveGlobal LogisticsArjun Chandar, Founder and Chairman, IndustrialML, Inc.
How Manufacturers Can Navigate Global Supply Chain Upheaval
Not only do advanced analytics reduce the supply of materials needed for a factory, but also help to find alternative vendors for materials that are in short supply. Here's how industry 4.0 technologies can ease the burden on the global supply chain.
Online ExclusiveGlobal LogisticsLucas Fiuza, Business Director, Apex-Brasil
Taking a Fresh Look at Brazil’s Transportation Sector
Some of the most compelling examples of change and positive momentum in Brazil are in the transportation sector. Here are three key highlights foreign investors should be aware of when considering transportation investments in Brazil.
Good Question
What’s the difference between traceability and transparency in the supply chain?
Readers offer insight on the difference between supply chain traceability and transparency. Guess which one you can have without the other?
Online ExclusiveIT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyJason Traff, President/Co-Founder, Shipwell, 512-333-0898
Girding for Supply Chain Turmoil in 2022
Companies can minimize disruption by implementing specific tools and best practices that will enable clearing logistical, transportation, and technological hurdles. Those include modernizing your business’ supply chain management processes—adopting artificial intelligence, for instance—enhancing visibility within the logistics network, applying analytics, and expanding your carrier networks.
IT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyBruce Orcutt
Digital Transformation: The Experience is King
Three top priorities for digital transformation for the year ahead.
Last Mile
Container Shipping By the Numbers
The transport of goods via ship has been around for centuries, gaining massive efficiencies in the 1950s when Malcom McLean invented containerized shipping. Here's a quick look-sea:
Smart Moves: Supply Chain Careers & Education AdviceChristine Castaneda
Effective Ways to Find and Retain Talent
With many roles in the field needing to be filled, supply chain managers must be prepared to not only better attract talent, but also to invest in their existing employees to retain them for the long-term.
Viewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisJoey Rubinstein
Retail Inventory: Old Method, New Tricks
How Japan’s 7-Eleven revolutionized retailers' stock orders and created a simple framework for smaller retailers to get stock that customers want.