The Supply Chainer

Southeast Asian container terminals operate under constant pressure to coordinate vessel berthing, automated crane sequences, yard handoffs, and manual ground operations across multiple shifts without communication delays. A single missed h...

Leadership changes continued across retail, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain technology during June. While executive appointments are common, several of this month's moves stand out because they put supply chain, fleet and operations leaders in positions with broader influence over business performance. As companies look for ways to improve execution, control costs and increase resilience, operational leadership is moving higher up the agenda. Target Names Jeff Engla

AI chip demand diverts memory production. Procurement teams in manufacturing, retail and tech face lead times that swing wildly. A delayed component shipment misses a receiving window. Detention charges mount at the dock. Warehouse labor sits idle. Cash flow forecasts collapse because finance lacks real-time signals on supplier commitments. Operations directors juggle daily firefighting while trying to protect margins and customer orders. This volatility turns routine plannin

This week’s episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast examined how supply chain resilience is shifting from recovery planning to faster, earlier decision-making. Hosted by Tom Raftery, the episode featured Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of ASCM, the Association for Supply Chain Management. The discussion focused on agility, supplier visibility, AI, sustainability, cyber risk and the governance pressures now reshaping supply chain leadership. For senior supply chain leaders, the conve

Air freight operators move high-value and condition-sensitive cargo under strict operational limits. Airline regulations restrict radio transmissions during flight. Many tracking devices exhaust batteries quickly or lose connectivity mid-journey. Visibility often fragments when cargo shifts between air, road, warehouse and storage. Operators end up choosing between compliance, battery duration, or continuous monitoring. Solutions from competitors such as Tive, OnAsset Intelli

Operational pressure is mounting for agrifood and manufacturing leaders. Disruptions in key chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz drive sharp increases in costs for fertilizer, feed, fuel, freight, and food. Legacy systems struggle with rapid modeling of interconnected decisions across procurement, inventory, and logistics. Operators face fragmented data, sequential optimization failures, and mounting execution gaps that expose thin margins. According to the FAO, 20-45% of ke

Over the past few months, I've been recording Source Code, a podcast where we sit down with the people actually doing procurement. Not analysts describing it from a distance, but operators who've spent careers in the middle of it. Three episodes in, a common theme stood out: many of procurement’s issues aren’t new, but are becoming even harder to ignore. The dual-source lesson hasn't actually landed. Kris Stasukaitis has spent nearly two decades running mechanical commodity m

When retailers operate across marketplaces, dropship networks, and direct-to-consumer channels simultaneously, inventory accuracy becomes a distributed coordination problem. Stock levels fragment across enterprise resource planning systems,...

Amazon Inc. continues to deepen its logistics footprint in the United States. The company has expanded its Less-Than-Truckload services to all businesses. This allows palletized shipments to any US destination. The move immediately pressured shares of established LTL carriers. Operational Pressure on Incumbents Old Dominion, FedEx Freight and Saia experienced notable declines. Investors weighed the potential for new competition from Amazon's vast network of warehouses, trucks

Vessels facing prolonged anchorage in the Gulf prior to transiting the Strait of Hormuz encounter accelerated biofouling buildup, directly impacting operational performance and supply chain costs. Extended stationary time in warm saline waters promotes rapid organism settlement on hulls, increasing hydrodynamic drag, fuel consumption, and overall voyage expenses. Dr. Mario N. Tamburri of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Director of the Maritime

Walmart is directing more suppliers toward a centralized consolidation model that replaces fragmented less-than-truckload shipments with coordinated full-truckload deliveries to a single intake point. The shift reduces per-unit transportati...

A sourcing manager reviews supplier risk alerts flagged across three dashboards, each showing different assessments of the same vendor's delivery performance. Finance tracks one version of contract spend, procurement monitors another set of...