Promotions that look like bargains still create cost and waste More than a decade ago, suggesting that buy-one-get-one-free promotions could be “immoral”…
By Prof. Jan Godsell, Loughborough Business School · Compliance · Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min readA merchandising team has to commit to fabrics, volumes and price points months before a garment reaches a store. Last season's sales help with core items.…
By K.R. Samiksha · Inventory · Sep 29, 2026
More than four million TEU now sit at berth, above the 2022 peak. That pile does not only lengthen a voyage. It takes ships out of rotation, breaks weekly…
By Hannah Kohr · Ports · Sep 29, 2026
Commercial auto is still a line most carriers would rather shrink than grow. AM Best put the 2024 underwriting loss at $4.9 billion, the fourteenth…
By Freddie Bolton · Transportation · Sep 27, 2026
Fleet operators are collecting unprecedented volumes of telematics data, yet many still struggle to convert visibility into operational improvements. GPS…
By Hannah Kohr · Fleets · Sep 26, 2026
The modern distribution yard has improved meaningfully over the last couple of decades, as more customers have recognized the value of dropped trailer…
By Adam Newsome, CEO Lazer Logistics · Yard · Sep 25, 2026
Most companies, whatever the industry, have a vendor onboarding process. A new supplier gets added, bank details are taken, a purchase order goes out, and…
By Ravinder Kapoor, Founder of Procurement Wala · Procurement · Sep 25, 2026
When a product is recalled, you have hours to work out whether it is yours. We checked 310 Chinese company names from US recall notices. Most of them did…
Workforce planning is often treated as an HR responsibility, but its consequences are operational: missed shifts can mean lost throughput, delayed orders,…
By The Supply Chainer · Podcast · Sep 24, 2026
For many importers, the most expensive supply chain disruptions no longer begin in the middle of the ocean. They begin after the container reaches the…
By Evan Porter · Podcast · Sep 23, 2026
For supplier-screening and procurement teams, the problem is not a missing policy. It is a missing view of the plant that actually ships the parts.…
By Evan Porter · Compliance · Sep 23, 2026
The latest sustainability reports from ONE, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk and OOCL point to meaningful investments in more efficient vessels, alternative fuels,…
By Evan Porter · Shipping · Sep 22, 2026
U.S. electric cars do not use one home plug. NACS is the inlet on Tesla and on a growing list of newer models that adopted that standard. J1772 remains…
By Hannah Kohr · Fleets · Sep 22, 2026
Last-mile logistics and transportation get most of the attention in ecommerce supply chain management. While shipping costs and delivery windows are…
By Dave Tu, President at DCL Logistics · Last Mile · Sep 21, 2026
Lululemon, Walmart, Dollar General, Advance Auto Parts, Starbucks, Boscov’s and Culver’s are fixing execution gaps that software vendors still sell…
By Hannah Kohr · Automation · Sep 20, 2026
A shipping container ship can be rerouted around a blocked strait. A truck that can't get through a congested port gate is a harder problem to solve. That…
By Charles Weber · Shipping · Sep 18, 2026
A container of Canadian-milled aluminum extrusions can now sit in a bonded warehouse for days while a broker rechecks its origin paperwork against new…
By K.R. Samiksha · Tariffs & Taxation · Sep 18, 2026
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