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The Three Pillars of Sustainability in Supply Chain and Logistics: A Strategic Guide

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Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Warehousing operations also offer opportunities for sustainable transformation. Another crucial focus area is sustainable packaging.

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Mastering Disruption: A Smarter, More Connected Approach

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Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing.

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How Smart Contracts Are Impacting Supply Chains

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How Smart Contracts Improve Logistics IoT-Enabled Tracking: Sensors on shipping containers continuously log real-time data (e.g., Inventory & Warehouse Management Warehouses and fulfillment centers are prone to stock discrepancies, mismanagement, and delays due to human error.

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Amazon and the Shift to AI-Driven Supply Chain Planning

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Organizations examine past sales trends, apply seasonal adjustments, and make forecasts based on historical models. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility. Predictive maintenance of transportation fleets reduces downtime and repair costs.

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Less Than Truckload Shipping Trends to Wrap Up 2018

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Shipping rates will continue to soar, and demand for more capacity will push the stretched industry to its breaking point, says Michael Angell of Freight Waves. As consumers take to their favorite retailers, also due in part to the strong economy, volume shipped will increase. Get Your Free Copy Here. Download eBook.

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Manhattan Associates Talks Global Supply Chains, Trends, and Sustainability

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Third, what are the big trends in warehouse and transportation management? WMS and TMS Trends. For the warehouse, the biggest trend is to maximize the pace and speed to meet customer service level agreements. This means not shipping air or having excess room in boxes and pallets. Order Management.

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What Does a Tier 1 Warehouse Management System Include?

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A Tier 1 WMS Should be Capable of Complex Optimization ARC Advisory Group does global market research on the warehouse management system market. We write about trends in this study. One trend I believe is imminent is that the market appears to be poised to bifurcate in terms of functionality.