Three Lies We Tell Ourselves in Supply Chain Management
Okay, maybe “lies” is too strong a word, but we often deceive ourselves in supply chain management — we tell ourselves things we want to believe are true, but deep…
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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q2 2025)
We’ve crossed the midway point of 2025. If you had to pick a song as the soundtrack for the first half of this year, which of the following would you…
Lire la suite →Europe’s Truck Driver Shortage: What’s Driving It — and How Logistics Leaders Are Responding
The wheels of commerce are turning — but who’s left to drive? That’s the growing concern echoing across Europe’s logistics sector. With over 6 million people employed in transport across…
Lire la suite →A Killer App for Warehouse Robots
When I returned from ProMat in 2023, I wrote that based on the number of automation solutions I saw at the conference focused on this application, “loading and unloading trailers/containers…
Lire la suite →[Video] Five Practical & Effective Ways To Mitigate Tariff Impacts
2025 has been a roller coaster ride for supply chain and global trade executives. It’s not just that new tariffs have been implemented on U.S. imports from virtually every country…
Lire la suite →Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 27, 2025)
My niece got married last Sunday, which was also my wife and I’s 28th wedding anniversary. I rented a tuxedo for my wedding, but for my niece’s wedding, I decided…
Lire la suite →What is the State of AI in Logistics?
If you’re like many logistics executives, you’re likely very curious and interested in how AI can improve your logistics operations and deliver business value, but you’re also probably a bit…
Lire la suite →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…
Lire la suite →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…
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