Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 20, 2025)
The clock is ticking, and in less than two months, I will be attempting to climb Mt. Washington in New Hampshire on my bicycle. It’s 7.6 miles up — and…
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UNFI: Another Reminder of Cyberattack Risks on Supply Chains
In June 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — “How…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 13, 2025)
It is Friday the 13th. It’s also my wife’s birthday. (Nothing implied, I swear.) We’re going to spend the afternoon together, starting with getting ice cream for lunch, which is…
Lire la suite →U.S. Container Import Volumes Drop in May Led by Sharp Decline in Imports from China
U.S. container import volumes retreat as tariff impacts emerge. In May 2025, U.S. container import volumes declined to 2,177,453 TEUs — a 9.7% drop from April (see Figure 1). Year-over-year,…
Lire la suite →Introducing a Supply Chain Logistics Maturity Model
Editor’s Note: The following post introduces a research report published recently, “Supply Chain Logistics Maturity Model.” The research, conducted by Adelante SCM and commissioned by SAP, led to the creation…
Lire la suite →D-Day for Drones
Last Friday was June 6th, the 81st anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy (the largest amphibious landing in history), which was a turning point…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 6, 2025)
Ask 100 people on the street today if they know the historical significance of June 6th and it wouldn’t surprise me if none of them know (especially if they’re under…
Lire la suite →Takeaways from Magaya’s “Moving Freight Forward Tour 2025”
“Now I know what being in a rock band feels like,” I joked with the members of the Magaya team I was travelling with. We were checking into our hotel…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 30, 2025)
Is ghosting on the rise or is it just me? Maybe my emails are landing in spam boxes, or they’re getting buried deep in the inbox, or getting accidentally deleted.…
Lire la suite →Five Practical & Effective Ways to Mitigate Tariff Impacts
Editor’s Note: Yesterday (May 28, 2025), as reported by the Wall Street Journal, “the New York-based Court of International Trade ruled that [President Trump] overstepped his authority in invoking powers…
Lire la suite →Rethinking Business Relationships in Supply Chain Management
When it comes to working with suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers, most companies still take a “What’s In It for Me?” approach to business relationships instead of a “What’s…
Lire la suite →Agentic AI 007, the Supply Chain Intelligence Officer
If Ian Fleming were alive and writing today, James Bond would likely be “Agentic AI 007,” a fully autonomous software intelligence officer powered by a British Large Language Model (LLM).…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 23, 2025)
It’s the Friday of Memorial Day weekend here in the US, which means many folks will be taking the day off to make the long weekend even longer. So, I’ll…
Lire la suite →Supply Chain Lessons from an Obituary
I like to read the obituaries in the newspaper, especially the ones in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the people featured are unknown to the…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 16, 2025)
In case you’re wondering, companies are still shipping air. The item on the counter (a replacement top for my coffee grinder) came in that big box with all the air…
Lire la suite →Running Your Supply Chain on Floppy Disks?
I’ve never liked Newark Liberty International Airport, and it’s even lower on my list of airports today. “Yet another equipment outage at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) caused widespread delays…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 9, 2025)
I had no idea what was going on when we arrived at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta and saw tons of people in the lobby dressed as furry animals. It…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 2, 2025)
I found Godin the Holy Land of Wilmington, Delaware. As fate would have it, I missed a turnon my morning walk, and when I stopped to seewhere I was, I…
Lire la suite →How Good Is Your Dock Appointment Scheduling Process?
In December 2022, The Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) was formed “to simplify the integration of systems across the fragmented ecosystem between shippers, carriers and intermediaries and create a more efficient…
Lire la suite →[Video] The Logistics of the De Minimis Entry
We’re still in the first quarter of 2025, but we already have a strong contender for Word of the Year: tariffs. Since inauguration day, tariffs have dominated the headlines, with…
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