Articles
June 2025
What Hobbies/Activities Make You Better at Managing Supply Chains?
Readers share how hobbies like running, yoga, puzzles, and team sports develop key skills—resilience, flexibility, problem-solving, and communication—enhance supply chain and logistics management performance.
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NOTED: Supply Chain Highlights
Stay informed with this month’s top supply chain highlights: from innovative AI‑powered automation and major M&A moves to sustainability milestones and workforce trends shaping logistics today. insights from Inbound Logistics.
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Walmart Bets Big on Drones
Walmart is banking on drone deliveries to continue dominating both the last-mile delivery sector and the broader retail industry. This drone strategy is long-term and based on Walmart’s research showing that younger consumers (ages 18-35) are the most likely to use drone delivery services. Younger consumers, accustomed to organizing their lives around iPhones and apps, […]
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State of Logistics Report; The Latest Data on Cross-Border Trade; Spotlight on Autonomous Supply Chains & other Logistics News
News, trends, and insights on the latest in global logistics and supply chain management.
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Freight Fraud: 5 Ways to Mitigate Risk
Freight fraud is becoming increasingly commonplace across the U.S. supply chain. In fact, 72% of respondents to a 2024 Transportation Intermediaries Association survey experienced at least three different types of fraud—everything from phishing and brokerage scams to cyberattacks, and fraudulent inbound phone calls and text messages.
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Unlocking Revenue Growth With AI
In the modern service economy, businesses face growing pressure to deliver value-driven customer experiences while maximizing profitability. Yet, many organizations remain tethered to outdated tools and manual processes that hinder operational efficiency and scalability.
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Rare Earth Elements: What’s the Drill?
While rare earths are not exactly “rare” (even the rarest of these elements, thulium, is 125 times more common than gold), these critical metals present tricky supply chain challenges and opportunities for companies to mine:
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Fantasy Farms and Fintech: A Blooming Success
Each year, Fantasy Farms grows more than 50 million stems of flowers across its own farms and by working with qualified growers in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico. The company regularly supplies 8,000-plus retail locations and 30,000-plus locations during major holidays.
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10 Tips for Overcoming Workforce Shortages
Supply chain workforce shortages continue to plague today’s businesses, and they are as prevalent on the warehouse floor as they are in the office.
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To Reduce Empty Miles, Shippers Must Share to Save
For an industry that prides itself on running lean, the supply chain has a glaring inefficiency on the roads every day: trucks with plenty of space to spare.
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Ecommerce Fulfillment: How to Keep it Rolling
Ecommerce retailers convey confidence despite facing barriers. Here’s how they stay on track.
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5 Key Steps to a Circular Supply Chain
Shippers looking to reduce waste should prioritize these critical components for traveling a successful path to circularity.
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Betting on Robots Over Hype: ‘Viral Videos Don’t Pack Boxes’
From fashion design to robotics CEO, Kimberley Losey’s journey defies convention. But it’s her relentless focus on solving real problems that’s redefining automation and reshaping warehouse robotics, one human-footprint robot at a time.
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For a Competitive Edge, Safety Is a M.U.S.T.
Fostering a solid safety culture not only saves lives and reduces accidents and cargo damages, it strengthens customer relations.
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Hawaii Logistics: Maintaining the Island Flow
Keeping cargo movement flowing to and from Hawaii’s multiple locations requires logistics savvy, specialized experience, and inter-island ingenuity. Call it Aloha spirit or pure persistence; these providers go the distance for every shipment.
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The Chemistry of Trust: Logistics Leaders Reinvent Chemical Supply Chains
In a high-stakes, highly regulated environment, top logistics providers blend innovation and institutional knowledge to secure safer, smarter, and more sustainable chemical transportation for a shifting global market.
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75 Green Supply Chain Partners
From the highway to the warehouse, from the skies to the docks, these 75 standout companies don’t just provide supply chain solutions—they’re moving the needle on sustainability.
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