Trends News
What is Crowdsourced Delivery, and How Does It Work?
Incorporating a crowdsourced delivery option into your company’s broader logistics and fulfillment plan may help to overcome some of the same-day delivery challenges and provide many benefits to your fulfillment models.
Leading LATAM 4PL Selects MPO Control Tower Platform for Global Supply Chain Solutions
Established as a leading logistics service provider in LATAM, One4pl needed a single-source platform to support multi-modal, international inbound, and outbound flows to enable their global expansion throughout EMEA and Asia.
enVista Sells Enspire Omnichannel Software and Global Freight Audit & Payment Services to Körber
The acquisition enables enVista to focus on the market for supply chain, enterprise business, and automation solutions and moves Kӧrber’s omnichannel and freight audit & payment strategy closer to becoming the global supply chain software champion.
What Is The Multi-Multi Problem Costing Your Business?
If you have a hodge-podge of IT platforms assembled over several years, either within your company or bolted on or into others, you know the term “multi-multi” problem refers to the conglomeration of IT solutions many companies operate under.
The Impact of Inflation on the Electronics Components Supply Chain Industry
The global inflation wave is also impacting multiple sectors, including the electronic components industry, logic, linear, discrete, advanced analog, and passive component prices are climbing and will continue climbing until macroeconomic conditions improve.
Key Takeaways and Reflections from the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo Americas
The most successful supply chain leaders are designing business and technology strategies around mitigating risk and navigating uncertain environments with agility, and above all this, the most widely talked about topic for the event was sustainability.
What to Look For In a Transportation Management System
Most standalone transportation management systems are too limited to encapsulate the tiered complexity of an international, multi-segment supply chain, but technology that can integrate and converge transportation with other supply chain functions, such as order management, set the new industry standard.
Can Blighted Properties Provide New Industrial Inventory?
Despite the innovation happening over the past two years, many industry stakeholders have overlooked blighted industrial properties as a viable pipeline for new industrial inventory.
FedEx and FourKites Announce Alliance to Make Supply Chains Work Smarter
FedEx makes a strategic investment in FourKites, which FourKites will leverage to develop FourKites X to help transform global supply chains with volumes of data insights from both companies’ networks.
Stressed-Out Supply Chain Managers Looking Elsewhere for Career Development
According to various reports, the separation rate increased by 28% last year, and supply chain ‘burnout’ spurred people to search for higher-paying jobs.
Exceptional Returns Management is No Longer Optional
Mastering returns may be easier said than done, with consumers expected to return more than $761 billion in goods bought online in 2022.
Strategic Inventory Management: An Alternative to Safety Stock vs Just-in-Time
How can businesses today achieve and maintain high customer satisfaction without having an abundance of excess inventory sitting on their balance sheet?
What Will an Average E-Commerce Warehouse Like in 10 Years?
What will e-commerce warehouses look like in 10 years? Though predicting the future certainly has a margin of error, we can make educated forecasts about the future of warehousing.
UPS Acquires Same-Day SaaS Delivery Management & Orchestration Technology Company Delivery Solutions
The acquisition provides customers access to carrier-independent, same-day delivery with plug-and-play options.
How to Navigate Significant Shifts When Upgrading Warehouse Software
Supply chains and warehouse operations are under a spotlight with many moving towards adding small- and large-scale automation solutions with software upgrades to match; identifying and navigating those changes is not easy but the right warehouse software platform and integrator can help make the shift seamless.
Global Electronic Component Shortage - May Update
Here is a comprehensive update on the global electronic component shortage, component lead times, and a forecast of when the parts crunch will end.
Coupa Named a “Challenger” in Gartner® 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions
The 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Report helps supply chain technology leaders when evaluating and selecting software tools to enable their supply chain planning maturity progression.
Direct to Customer vs Reaching Customer via DCs
By working with solution providers with a deep understanding of technology and business processes companies can realize their grand vision of D2C and gain competitive advantage.
What to Do When You Outgrow Your E-commerce Fulfillment Operation
Though the e-commerce boom has slowed compared to the explosion seen in 2020, online retail continues to experience steady growth year-over-year.