Supply Chain & Logistics Trends

IT business leader Paul A. Strassmann, who passed away recently at age 96, wrote the following in 1997: “It is not computers but how a firm manages them that makes the difference. What matters is [...]

As we near the beginning of Q4 2024, companies are already starting to plan and budget for 2025. What is your overall outlook for the transportation market in 2025? What are your top strategic [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that some large companies -- including UPS, JP MorganChase, and Boeing -- are "requiring full-time attendance for at least some segment of their [...]

As we head into 2024, what supply chain trends will continue to grow? Which risks are top of mind for your supply chain organization? Are you feeling optimistic or pessimistic about the year ahead?