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Supply Chain Top Stories

Ask an Expert: How Shippers Can Prep for Hurricane Season
Extreme weather events pose an extreme challenge for the transportation industry. Here are some tips on how to protect your company's supply chain.
Apple Accused of Multiple Human Rights Violations
The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Apple of using illegal minerals and violating human rights in its supply chain.
South Korea Finally Overtakes China in Goods Exported to U.S.
Fueled by U.S. consumer demand for semiconductors, South Korea continues to make huge inroads as China fades.
UPS Struggles in First Quarter With Steep Earnings Decline
Shipping giant UPS struggled with shifting consumer demands and rising costs, resulting in an earnings dip during the first three months of 2024.

Supply Chain Resources

GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report 2024
We’ve researched the five biggest trends in the supply chain space this year, and, drawing on our...
Ten Golden Rules of Supplier Risk Management by JAGGAER
In this whitepaper we cover the best practices to mitigate risks and create a crisis response plan.


Supply Chain News

Beyond Visibility: How to Build a Supply Chain That Thinks
This white paper details how end-to-end visibility will bring about a cognitive, predictive and digital supply chain, in which the flow of goods, resources, and people are mapped by an equivalent flow of information.

Full-Scale Supply Chain Solution for Large Canadian Retailer
One of Canada’s largest retailers partnered with LEGACY Supply Chain Services to develop a full-scale, custom supply chain solution – supporting the client’s growth and enabling rapid expansion into new retail markets.

Rethinking the Supply Chain
This white paper describes how a radically different approach to supply chain yields vastly improved results.

The ROI of Streamlined Contractor Qualifications and Management
Companies should look at compliance as an opportunity to enhance business capabilities – and invest to achieve these goals.

National Retail Federation on the Current State of Ecommerce Supply Chains
Jonathan Gold, Vice President, Supply Chain and Customs Policy for the National Retail Federation shares his insights and observations on how ecommerce is changing the way we approach logistics and distribution.

The Coming AI Revolution in Retail & Consumer Products
This white paper details how companies are thinking about implementing intelligent automation such as artificial intelligence in their retail businesses.

Reconfiguring Nanostore Retail Supply Chains to Combat the Nutritional Food Desert
Urban populations in emerging economies often buy their nutritional food supplies, called food deserts, from small, mom-and-pop retailers called nanostores, a nanostore is defined as a small, family-owned outlet operated by fewer than five people located in a densely populated neighborhood.

Navigating the Complex Regulatory Environment within Healthcare & Pharma Packaging
A survey by the Contract Packaging Association revealed that 70% of contract packaging and contract manufacturing companies are concerned that the regulatory environment could negatively impact business in the coming years.

The Logistics of Canadian eCommerce
U.S. companies have found that a logistics plan that works well for the U.S., cannot simply be replicated for operating in Canada.

How the Internet of Things & Big Data Are Accelerating Supply Chain Management
IoT technology along with big data analytics is well on its way to transforming supply chain management, and the companies that can take advantage of these benefits in the near term will save money, increase efficiency and keep their customers happy.

Chain of Custody: Source of Control in Global Supply Chains
The logistics industry is slowly being transformed to the point when the utilization of the electronic data environment will become the norm in the industry and the additional technological advancements in IoT technology will enable the integration of complete cargo supply.

Data Loggers vs. IoT Enabled Real-Time Services for Supply Chain Visibility
Learn how to optimize your supply chain processes and eliminate inefficiencies with the help of supply chain visibility solutions and cargo tracking and monitoring.

IoT in the Supply Chain to Help Beat the Brexit Blues
With the risks Brexit could bring to the supply chain, this paper explains how to optimize your supply chain processes and eliminate inefficiencies with the help of supply chain visibility solutions and cargo tracking and monitoring.

The Emerging Business of Supply Chain Risk Management
For many organizations, globalization, outsourcing, and extended supply chains are effective strategies to increase efficiency and achieve economies of scale, however, these benefits are accompanied by the significantly increased risk to quality, safety, business continuity, reputation, and more.

Preparing Your Workplace for Cannabis
The increasing legal and social acceptance of cannabis raises thorny questions about work safety, impairment, and use on premises, learn about upcoming developments and some ways you can prepare your supply chain for the changes.

Changing the Supply Chain Landscape with Blockchain
Blockchain technology has obvious and practical uses in situations that require visibility across several entities, like supply chains, when a supply chain forms a blockchain it can tell you all of the relevant real-time details of a required asset, like who the shipper is and what phase of logistics the asset is in.

Food Supply Chain Logistics Software & Technology Trends
The transportation and logistics industry has traditionally been defined by trucks and infrastructure, but over the past several years technology has begun to change the way business is done.

Quick Guide to Food Supply Chain Traceability
Learn about how the traceability of food and beverage products together with supply chain visibility helps reduce the waste in food supply chains.

How Cross Border Shippers Can Improve their Supply Chain Organizations
How smart shippers can offset the monumental challenges that come with running today’s increasingly complex, intertwined global supply chains.

Customization & Digitalization are Essential for Differentiated CPGs Product Experiences
The way people buy has shifted over the past decade and it’s created ripples within the consumer goods space and supply chain.


Featured Companies

Digi-Key
Digi-Key Corporation, based in Thief River Falls, Minn., is a global, full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, offering more than three million products from over 650 quality name-brand manufacturers. With over 800,000 products in stock, an…
Youredi
Youredi is the leading provider of data integration and analytics solutions as a service for global eCommerce, finance and logistics. With its simple, cost-effective iPaaS that can be delivered quickly and securely from the cloud and can compliment your existing…
Food Chain Workers Alliance
The Food Chain Workers Alliance believes in a truly sustainable food system, one that can provide healthy and locally made food, and that has the potential to lift up communities, workers, and our shared environment. A food system that is…
Ajilon
At Ajilon Professional Staffing, we are a leader in temporary and permanent recruitment and the placement of top talent. Our areas of specialty include organizational leadership and support positions in HR, non-clinical healthcare, office administration, supply chain, logistics, and more.…
Suntek Systems
Suntek is a supply chain software company that offers the freight forwarding management solution, customs brokerage solution, order fulfillment solution and manifesting solution. By utilizing own flexible supply chain solutions, Suntek makes our customer’s complicated logistics process from order…
Demand Solutions
Demand Management, Inc. is a leading global supply chain planning software company that offers affordable, easy-to-use tools for manufacturers and distributors who want to increase forecast accuracy, improve customer service levels and reduce overall inventory to maximize profits and lower…
Drewry Supply Chain Advisors
Drewry Supply Chain Advisors is the global market leader in seafreight market intelligence and benchmarking and a specialist advisor in international seafreight procurement. Our experience with clients suggests not only is there a need to assist seafreight procurement activity with…
CFO Edge
CFO Edge is a leading Southern California provider of outsourced CFO services. Based in Los Angeles, we are a group of experienced chief financial officers who engage with area executives on demand to address strategic planning, business management, and day-to-day…
CK Systems
C&K Systems is recognized as a global leader in the management and deployment of cloud based retail point-of-sale environments for small to medium specialty retailers. In today’s connected world retailers need a suite of integrated Omni-channel and…
Ceres
Ceres is a non-profit organization advocating for sustainability leadership. We mobilize a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.
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The Ultimate WMS Checklist: Find the Perfect Fit
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An Inside Look at Dropshipping
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