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Historically, there has been a disconnect between Supply Chain Planning and Supply Chain Execution processes and applications. As a result, companies tend to plan, optimize, and execute their [...]

In June 2024, Amazon announced "its largest reduction in plastic packaging in North America to date." This is the latest example of how Improving packaging can lead to benefits for transportation [...]

There have been several disruptive cyberattacks in the logistics industry in recent years, including attacks on software providers. The most recent example is CDK Global which was attacked on [...]

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 [...]

Poor data quality is the Achilles' heel of supply chain management. This is especially true for data received from suppliers, logistics service providers, and other external trading partners. How [...]

As we approach the midway mark of 2024, how would you characterize the current state of the freight transportation market? What actions do you plan to take in the second half of 2024 to better [...]

This week's survey topic and questions were submitted by an Indago supply chain executive member. Many companies use lumper services -- that is, third-party workers to load/ unload freight from [...]

Last July, Indago members ranked "Adjust our inventory management policies" as the top action they planned to make to finish 2023 strong. Now that we are in the second quarter of 2024, how would [...]

Freight fraud is a growing problem. CargoNet, for example, "recorded 692 cargo theft eventsacross the United States and Canada in the third quarter of 2023, a 59% increase when compared to the [...]

Back in December 2023, we asked our Indago members if they were feeling optimistic or pessimistic about the year ahead from a supply chain management perspective. Now that we're a quarter into [...]