The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade estimates that more than $600,000 million worth of trade has been disrupted in just the first 18 hours of the West Coast work stoppage.
We congratulate the winner and finalists of this year’s Supply Chain Innovation Award competition, and trust that their examples will motivate others to seek out new ideas and solutions.
The brief strike by East and Gulf Coast dockworkers brought to the fore the ongoing controversy about automation at U.S. ports, and its ultimate impact on human workers.
To improve resilience and business continuity in the face of pandemics, wars, natural disasters and other supply chain vulnerabilities, businesses are adopting comprehensive supplier risk-management initiatives.
As micro-fulfillment centers implement a mixture of systems and services to perform the last mile of the fulfillment process, a lack of reliable connectivity could hinder their performance.
If there’s anything in the world of parcel shipping that can be considered a certainty, it’s that rates will rise every year.
But there are still opportunities to save.
With the help of a market-leading AI platform, companies can help to bring about a safer and just future for workers around the globe and their organizations to succeed.
The system even captures emotional cues like frustration or satisfaction, helping businesses gain deeper insights into customer sentiment, improve operational efficiency and deliver enhanced user experience.
The cloud- and mobile-based system automates maintenance management for fleets, by taking in recall alerts, tracking fuel use, and logging vehicle inspections.
If you can be somewhat flexible with planning and lead time, you can leverage a 3PL’s ability to develop the scale needed for executing retail consolidation programs.
Many warehouses today still run manual systems in which employees direct workflows and spend much of their time walking up and down aisles to pick and slot products.
In 2020, Myers Industries began looking for a way to integrate its planning function across six business groups serving multiple markets and product types.
Jennifer Chung, director of automation and innovation for North America with DSV, and Laura Adams, director of customer lifecycle marketing with Locus Robotics, tell how Locus helped DSV to meet the seasonal needs of a key customer.
Like any manufacturer, your organizational goals can be summed up into three words: profitability, growth, and scale. These expectations only continue to increase as your business moves along the maturity curve, with mounting pressure to make smart investment choices that lead to the right type of gains and mitigate risk.
The automotive supply chain has never been more challenging. From the rapid shift to electric vehicles and skyrocketing costs to raw material shortages, geopolitical tensions, and volatile market demands, suppliers face pressures that can define their success or failure.
What are the biggest challenges when dealing with a new circularity landscape? Not just regulatory, but also ESG pressure from consumers, clients, and investors. We would like to highlight the challenges from the voice of a customer to understand how they are dealing with it, and what is a good place for others to start.
In this session, we will discuss how supply chains should harness the collective potential - meaning the potential of the individual, the community and technology to drive productivity, business growth and achievement of enterprise objectives.
Experts from leading global technology companies come together to advise on how order fulfillment facilities can use new kinds of technology to avoid the need to move or expand on existing facilities.
Every year, costs will increase, waste will need to be reduced, and sustainability standards will determine how orders are packaged and shipped across the globe. What’s certain is that shippers will be dealing with these challenges for the foreseeable future.
Advanced technologies such as automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) allow warehousing operations to eliminate employee dead time, blend B2B and B2C fulfillment workflows, retain employees, reduce inefficiencies, increase throughput, and maximize space utilization. How? Read on to find out.
This white paper presents five essential insights for shippers regarding cargo theft, shedding light on current trends in the U.S. and outlining the most common modus operandi used by these criminal networks.
SupplyChainBrain will once again feature its annual list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners in the August 2025 issue. Click here to nominate any of your partners.