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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

I laugh when business leaders tell me that they are going to replace their current supply chain planning technologies with “AI.” I agree that the market is a bit of a mess. Each supply chain planning technology at the end of 2024, went through disruption–change in CEO, business model shift, layoffs, re-platforming and acquisitions.

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Tariffs and Trade in 2025: Uncertainty Will Create Opportunity for Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

"Companies can take a fresh look at the balance they strike between efficiency and resilience," says Marsh Advisory managing director James Crask.

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Supply Chain Trends 2025: Innovation, Resilience & Sustainability

All Things Supply Chain

In 2025, supply chains are undergoing a fundamental transformation to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.

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The State of Order Management: Commerce and Order Management Strategies to Drive Success 

BlueYonder

The retail landscape continues to evolve. Every retailer must create customer-centric experiences from click to deliver and back, leverage stores as fulfillment hubs and keep an eye on sustainability to meet the needs of sustainability conscious shoppers. Trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), new selling channels and store fulfillment are having an outsized impact on retailers commerce and order management strategy.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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Achieving Supply Chain Resilience: Strengthen and Adapt Your Operations

Procurement Academy

Global markets are facing significant uncertainty and negativity, with instability and continued risk expected to impact businesses for the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum. Global conflicts, macroeconomic shocks, and shifting global trade routes are all combining to provide real challenges to modern supply chains, and are driving the uncertainty that organizations feel.

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What is Ocean Freight?

Logistics Bureau

You know how we often take for granted that we can order something from across the world and it’ll show up at our doorstep? Well, ocean freight makes that possible. It’s essential to global trade, moving about 90% of everything we use in our daily lives. Think about it this way – that coffee you’re drinking? Before it reached your cup, those beans probably spent weeks crossing an ocean in a container, stacked among thousands of others on a vessel bigger than several footb

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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

When you talk to companies that have implemented enterprise or supply chain applications, executives will usually admit that they have under-invested in training and preparing users to use the new technology. People issues are always challenging. But change management is significantly more difficult when the technology deployed is used not just internally, but also by key trading partners.

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Finding Enterprise Adaptability Through Industrial Transformation

QAD

Between geopolitical constraints, workforce shortages, supply chain challenges and evolving consumer demand, working in manufacturing today can feel like playing a game of dodgeball; just when you think youre in the clear, another disruptive event comes flying your way. If only there was a referee to call a timeout so everyone could catch their breath!

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Strategic Sourcing + Smart Solutions: The Unbeatable Duo for Procurement Success

SCMDOJO

Strategic sourcing and innovative solutions are often viewed as two distinct procurement tools, but they should not be seen in isolation. Think of them as apples and gearseach essential and effective on its own, yet when combined; they create a formidable mechanism for achieving procurement excellence. This article delves into how these two elements, working together, can transform procurement strategies into long-term competitive advantages.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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OneRail’s Winning Strategy for Final Mile with Bill Catania

The Logistics of Logistics

Bill Catania and Joe Lynch discuss OneRail’s winning strategy for final mile. Bill is the Founder & CEO of OneRail , a leading omnichannel fulfillment solution pairing best-in-class software with logistics as a service that provides dependability and speed to help businesses meet their delivery promise. About Bill Catania Bill Catania is the Founder & CEO of OneRail , a leading omnichannel fulfillment solution pairing best-in-class software with logistics as a service that provides

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Trust More: A New Year’s Resolution for Supply Chain Executives

Talking Logistics

At the start of 2017, I wrote a post highlighting four things supply chain and logistics professionals should stop doing in the new year. Last January, I updated the list and added a couple of more things to stop doing in 2024 and beyond (see Supply Chain New Years Resolutions: Things To STOP Doing In. Read more The post Trust More: A New Year’s Resolution for Supply Chain Executives appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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LSPs Need to Build Digital Leadership Quickly. Blue Yonder Can Help.

BlueYonder

Faced with unprecedented supply chain complexity, more companies are making a strategic choice to focus on their core business, while outsourcing their warehousing and transportation to the experts logistics services providers, or LSPs. Among Fortune 500 companies, 80% are outsourcing logistics and 68% of all businesses report that theyve achieved cost savings from logistics outsourcing.

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What is Volume Leverage?

Logistics Bureau

Think of volume leverage like having a stronger negotiating position when you’re dealing with larger quantities. When we talk about volume leverage in logistics, we’re essentially looking at how we can use higher volumes to create advantages across different areas of the supply chain. Here’s where it gets interesting – volume leverage isn’t just about getting better prices (though that’s certainly part of it).

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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From HMPV to Resilience: Why Future-Ready Supply Chains Are Critical Now

Locus

Disruption is quickly becoming the new normal for global logistics. Hot on the heels of COVID-19, the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) outbreak is highlighting just how fragile our supply chains remain. According to a recent update from the World Health Organization (WHO), HMPV is quietly spreading through key manufacturing regions, echoing the operational challenges we faced during the pandemic.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 10, 2025)

Talking Logistics

As you read this, Ill be making my way to my sons graduation from Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Moore, Georgia. After 10 weeks of basic training and 12 weeks at OCS, hell be a newly commissioned officer in the United States Army. The forecast calls for snow and ice for most of the. Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 10, 2025) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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The Top 5 Key Supply Chain Capabilities

Procurement Academy

Strong supply chain capabilities drive efficiency and develop competitiveness in an oversaturated market. Global disruptions such as COVID-19 have unearthed a wide range of vulnerabilities within international supply chains. They taught businesses that you simply must be prepared for rapid change with contingency plans and alternative solutions ready to go.

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Top Blogs of 2024 (Plus Some Supply Chain Analytics Blasts from the Past)

Arkieva

From supply chain analytics to demand planning best practices and beyond. Heres a roundup of 2024s most popular blogs, including a few blasts from the past. Top Blogs of 2024 (Plus Some Supply Chain Analytics Blasts from the Past) was first posted on January 7, 2025 at 8:23 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.

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Future-Proof Logistics Warehouses with Flexibility and Throughput

Logistics Viewpoints

Flexibility and throughput are indispensable for success in logistics warehouses today. According to Benchmark International, e-commerce sales are projected to hit $6.3 trillion globally by 2024. Logistics providers face escalating pressures to meet high-speed delivery expectations and manage unpredictable market dynamics. Logistics warehouses that prioritize flexibility, operational efficiency, and throughput will be able to secure long-term growth, meet client demands, and stay ahead of evolvi

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Thank You

Supply Chain Trend

Dear reader, As Im starting 2025 it is time for some change. I will finish my editorship at Foresight, and I will stop this blog supply chain trend. For 15 years Ive been writing this blog and related articles & field studies on average monthly. Content was anchored in S&OP and supply chain planning but touched visioning, strategy execution, company culture & behaviours, communication, philosophy, psychology, automation & augmentation, AI, human-machine collaboration & proces

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Stord Brings Enterprise-level Fulfillment, Last-Mile and Order Management Software Capabilities to Emerging, High Growth DTC Brands

Stord

Heaven Mayhem, SuperPlants, Wunderground, and more among rapidly scaling e-commerce brands gaining access to new level of commerce enablement services and technology ATLANTA, January 7, 2024 Stord , a leader in high-volume fulfillment services and supply chain technology for omnichannel mid-market and enterprise brands, has launched an accelerator initiative designed to bring enterprise-level fulfillment, parcel and last-mile services, plus market-leading order management software (OMS) to emer

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Introducing AI Blueprints: Unlock actionable insights with AI-ready pre-built templates

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Streamline complex analytics workflows & tackle challenges like anomaly detection, store clustering, and more with ease. If youve ever felt overwhelmed by messy sales data or spent endless hours piecing together reports, youre not alone. For data scientists and supply chain leaders, transforming raw data into actionable insights can be a constant challenge.

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Brace for Impact. Unpredictable Tariff Disruptions Are Here - Your Playbook

Tariffs will have a major impact on your supply chain, margins, and operations. Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.

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Keep or Return? Fashion Influencers Have Created a Costly Trend for Retailers

BlueYonder

Its no secret that product returns are one of the biggest challenges facing the worlds retailers especially retailers of fashion apparel. Clothing trends and product seasons come and go with increasing speed today. That means fashion retailers must get returned products back in stores, or back into online inventories, as quickly as possible to capture the fleeting resale opportunity.

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Warehouse Automation Reflections for 2024 and What Lies Ahead in 2025: Part 3/3

Locus Robotics

Home January 10, 2025 Warehouse Automation Reflections for 2024 and What Lies Ahead in 2025: Part 3/3 Rick Faulk , Chief Executive Officer Now that Ive looked back at 2024 and offered my warehouse automation predictions for 2025 , lets turn to the three areas warehouse leaders should concentrate on to prepare their operations for the future. Flexibility vs.

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Modernizing Defense Supply Chains

The Network Effect

The post Modernizing Defense Supply Chains appeared first on The Network Effect.

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From Waste to Worth: Transforming Logistics Through Sustainability

Bristlecone

As consumers and businesses become increasingly environmentally conscious, the logistics industry stands at a pivotal crossroads. Imagine a bustling logistics hubefficient, clean, and powered by renewable energy. Electric trucks glide silently along optimized delivery routes, significantly reducing fuel consumption and slashing carbon emissions. With sustainability taking centre stage in modern logistics, this vision is rapidly transforming from aspiration to reality.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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5 Retail Supply Chain Technology Trends in 2025

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

2025 is poised to be a transformative year for retail supply chains, driven by technological innovation, heightened resilience, and a stronger push for sustainability. What does this mean for how we shop and work? This is not just for supply chain executives but everyone else in the C-suite of retailer businesses.Understanding these trends is critical … Continue reading "5 Retail Supply Chain Technology Trends in 2025" The post 5 Retail Supply Chain Technology Trends in 2025 appeared first

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Warehouse Automation Reflections for 2024 and What Lies Ahead in 2025: Part 2/3

Locus Robotics

Home January 06, 2025 Warehouse Automation Reflections for 2024 and What Lies Ahead in 2025: Part 2/3 Rick Faulk , Chief Executive Officer What will the future hold for warehouses in 2025? In the first part of this three-part series , I discussed how 2024 was about proving the value of flexibility, throughput, and intelligence. This year will amplify those gains while addressing new challenges.

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Resilinc’s New SCRM AI Assistant Streamlines Supply Chain Support

Resilinc

Discover how Resilincs new SCRM AI assistant will improve supportmaking it easier for users to find answers to questions to mitigate supply chain risks faster. When managing supply chains, time is of the essence. The faster you mitigate a supply chain disruption, the faster your company can ensure continuity. While SCRM platforms can be powerful tools to help manage your supply chain quickly, when looking for support it can be easy to get lost in the weeds of technical documentation.