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Senators Take Aim at Amazon with Warehouse Worker Protection Act
Two Democratic senators proposed a new bill that will regulate the use of productivity quotas and improve safety for workers.
Maersk Sees Silver Lining in Red Sea Shipping Challenges
Despite major disruptions in the Red Sea disruptions continue, Maersk predicts smaller losses than expected due to higher freight rates and volumes.
Happy Returns Partners With Shein and Forever 21 to Simplify Returns
The UPS-owned company launches its new buy-online, return-in-store (BORIS) solution at 300 Forever 21 stores nationwide.
Baltimore Opens 45-Foot Deep Channel Following Bridge Collapse
The 45-foot deep channel offers substantial horizontal and vertical clearances, helping support the port's economic recovery.

Supply Chain Resources

Navigating Procurement’s Digital Transformation with AI
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of AI in reshaping procurement and supply chain operations is...
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...


Supply Chain News

Enhance the Value of Your Supply Chain Supplier Relationships
Developing and executing the right kind of supplier relationship based on the right kind of sourcing business model moves an organization from traditional supplier relationship management to the next generation.

DHL Resilience360: Top 10 Supply Chain Risk Predictions 2019
The DHL Resilience360 report examines last year's major supply chain challenges and identifies trends that will shape the risk landscape in 2019.

Eighth UPS Pain in the Chain Survey Snapshot
Healthcare logistics decision makers have improved their success levels in addressing issues across the supply chain in the past year, and they continue to struggle with managing logistics, warehousing, and transportation costs.

Four Steps to Building a Global Chain Risk Management Platform
Be proactive - and significantly reduce global supply chain risks, discover the 4 steps to building a global supply chain risk management platform in a white paper from Avetta.

Unpacking Sourcing Business Models: 21st Century Solutions for Sourcing Services
This white paper is a collaborative effort among the University of Tennessee, the Sourcing Industry Group, the Center for Outsourcing Research and Education, the International Association for Contracts and Commercial Management, and was the inspiration for the 2015 book, Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy: Harnessing the Potential of Sourcing Business Models in Modern Procurement.

Telia and Veolia: From Supplier to Strategic Partner
This case study is a perfect example of the journey of Telia Company AB, a Swedish listed telecommunications company and mobile network operator, of the dynamics of the Vested learning and implementation process.

How Dell and FedEx Supply Chain Reinvented their Relationship
This case study details how Dell and FedEx Supply Chain stopped thinking about “What’s in it for Me (WIIFMe)” and embraced Vested’s “What’s in it for We (WIIFWe)” mindset, and how, by reinventing their relationship achieved record-breaking results.

Optimizing the Modern Supply Chain Enterprise with a Control Tower for CFOs
How CFOs are Leveraging Intelligent Control Towers to Align Financial and Supply Chain Decision-Making.

Merchants Shift Closer to the Consumer
As Black Friday 2018 made loud and clear, most consumers today would prefer to have an online omnichannel shopping experience than a traditional in-store visit.

UK Parliament Rejects Theresa May’s Revised Brexit Deal
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was rejected once again by Parliament, throwing the country deeper into a political crisis and raising the prospect that the divorce will be delayed or even reversed.

International Women’s Day 2019 - #BalanceforBetter | Breakthrough Moment for Women in Global Trade
Today is International Women's Day; Kathleen Marran, vice president of marketing, diverse segments, at UPS, writes about how this moment is a breakthrough for women in global trade, and even more, how inclusion represents a real chance to strengthen communities.

The True Cost of the Long Tail
How much does a long tail really cost you? It's more than you think.

2018 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study
Accurate forecasting is strategic. Every decision by management is ultimately based on a forecast, so getting it right is important.

Increase Sales with Inventory Management Software
If you’re an eCommerce retailer losing money every year due to lost or mis-managed inventory, you’re not using the correct management software.

Retailers Urge Congress to Pass Tariff Relief Legislation | Tariffs Cost US $2.7 Billion per Month
As President Trump claims that billions are flowing into Treasury from tariffs, new data shows it’s coming from American companies - The National Retail Federation is calling on Congress to pass legislation to exclude some items from the administration’s tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.

AVETTA & BROWZ Merge to Form One of the World’s Leading Providers of Supply Chain Risk Management
Avetta and Browz, two providers of SaaS-based supply chain risk management software, have merged forming a formidable combined company focused on delivering the best in supply chain risk management services, the transaction expands their global network to 85,000 customers in over 100 countries.

Selecting Software for Supply Chain Network Design Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult
Network design as a discipline is complex and most organizations struggle to answer network design questions or test hypotheses in weeks, let alone days, and certainly not hours, but it doesn't have to be that difficult.

US Retailers Receive Some Good News on Trump Easing China Trade Tariff Tensions
The Retail Industry Leaders Association, the National Retail Association, and the Association for Supply Chain Management welcomed President Trump's decision to delay the March 1st China tariff hike on thousands of everyday consumer products.

Managing the Supply Chain Complexity Paradigm
This paper offers insight into managing supply chain and product complexity by providing background into the complexity’s sources, a framework for understanding its drivers, and methods to manage it.

Reducing Supply Chain Complexity & Reverse Logistics with a Single-Use $29 Tracker
Tive, Inc., a leading provider of in-transit supply chain tracking solutions, has announced the release of its new real-time visibility tracker product: the Tive Solo™.


Featured Companies

OIA Global
OIA offers global logistics, packaging, and materials sourcing solutions to optimize supply chains worldwide. Since our founding in 1988, OIA has grown into a $1 billion supply chain management leader, with over 1,300 professionals and 69 owned offices in 27 countries.
The Ferrari Consulting Research Group
We provide personalized consulting and advisory research services in helping firms to overcome challenges in their respective supply chain strategic, tactical and information technology needs. We further provide specialized consulting in web based product marketing, go-to-market and electronic content strategies…
Servigistics
PTC completed its previously-announced acquisition of Servigistics, Inc., developer of an innovative suite of service lifecycle management (SLM) software solutions. The combination of the two companies firmly establishes PTC’s market leadership in SLM by positioning PTC with the most…
Transporeon
The Transporeon Group links industrial and retail enterprises with their logistics service providers. The company, which has headquarters in Ulm and Kempten, does this via the Transporeon logistics platform, the Ticontract tendering platform and the Mercareon retail logistics platform. Over 1,000…
Viv Labs
Viv radically simplifies the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything. Viv is a global platform that enables developers to plug into and create an intelligent, conversational interface to anything. It is the simplest way for the world to…
Foundation for the Global Compact
Established in 2006, the Foundation for the Global Compact is a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit organization under New York State law. The Foundation is based on the principle that public-private collaboration is essential to find lasting solutions to pressing global problems. All…
Network for Business Sustainability
A Canadian non-profit established in 2005, the Network for Business Sustainability is a powerful and growing network of international academic experts and business leaders. NBS produces authoritative resources on important sustainability issues – with the goal of shaping management practice and research.…
Syncron
Syncron solutions create agile and streamlined supply and demand chain management processes that improve your competitiveness and financial performance. With Syncron’s industry-leading software and expert supply chain consultants, managing a complex global supply chain is easy.
BPE Global
BPE Global is changing the way that companies approach global trade compliance. Rather than look at global trade as a means to an end, we strongly believe that global trade compliance is critical to a company’s overall strategy and…
Demandware
Demandware, the category-defining leader of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, empowers the world’s leading retailers to continuously innovate in our complex, consumer-driven world. Demandware’s open cloud platform provides unique benefits including seamless innovation, the LINK ecosystem of integrated best-of-breed…
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Unified Control System - Intelligent Warehouse Orchestration
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