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Inventory Management and the Supply Chain: Outlook 2025
Jason Miller, Eli Broad Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management and Interim Chairperson of the Department of Supply Chain Management within Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business, breaks down…
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Optimizing Parcel Packing to Cut Costs
Enhance your shipping efficiency by prioritizing improvements in pack-out processes, including cartonization strategies, to minimize waste, lower transportation costs, and meet increasing order fulfillment demands sustainably.
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Supplier diversification, AI readiness, and circularity top supply chain priorities for 2025
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Supply chains are evolving rapidly in 2025 as businesses prioritize resilience, sustainability, and AI-driven innovation to navigate ongoing…

First-half 2025 dry van truckload outlook: Improving conditions ahead
Signs indicate gains of about 4% in rates in the first half of the year, with potential higher gains later in 2025 in an improving dry van…

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Mentorship insights: Empowering women leaders in supply chain management
Business Management
Empowering the next generation of supply chain leaders begins with mentorship. Programs like TrailblazeHers 24:24 from the Digital Supply Chain…

Importing from China is about to get very expensive
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It is important for supply chain professionals to understand the economics of production and global supply chains as tariffs will change the…

Automation continues to slow port labor negotiations
Procurement & Sourcing
International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance have until Jan. 15 to reach a contract deal, but automation…

Procurement strategy: Managing Scope 3 emission suppliers for a sustainable supply chain
Business Management
Scope 3 emissions, originating from a company’s supply chain and product lifecycle, often represent the largest portion of a company’s…

Services economy sees gains for fifth straight month in November, reports ISM
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The November Services PMI, at 52.1 (a reading of 50 or higher signals growth), was down 3.9% compared to October, growing, at a slower rate, for…

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Driving supply chain flexibility in an uncertain and volatile world
Business Management
The SC-Flexibility Drivers Matrix creates a roadmap to creating the versatility modern supply chains require.

Increased semiconductor M&A presents challenges for supply chain professionals
Procurement & Sourcing
As more mergers take place in the semiconductor industry, customers need to carefully track data such as product identification numbers that can…

November manufacturing output increases but with more room to run, reports ISM
Procurement & Sourcing
The report’s benchmark reading, the PMI, at 48.4 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), increased 1.9% over November’s 46.5, its…

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From challenges to solutions: Highlights from NextGen 2024
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A deep dive into the 2024 NextGen Supply Chain Conference, which took place in Chicago in October and attracted more than 175 attendees,…

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Achieving Supply Chain Excellence: Balancing Cost,…
Discover expert strategies for mastering supply chain management by balancing cost control, resilience, and ESG compliance. Learn from Georg Roesch, VP of Direct Procurement Strategy at…
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The Frictionless Supply Chain
Sandra Donzella from the U.S. Export-Import Bank discusses how ExIm programs, including export insurance and financing, help U.S. businesses expand internationally while minimizing financial risks.
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Talking Supply Chain
Open eBL is hoping its open-source, standards-based electronic bill of lading is the efficiency game-changer global trade has been searching for.
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In-Transit
In this episode, Navneet Lekshminarayanan, the founder and managing director of Holocene, joined In Transit host Vishnu Rajamanickam to discuss insights and strategies for managing complex service…
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December 2024

I am just weeks away from completing my second year as editor-in-chief of Supply Chain Management Review. It has been a fast two years—I can say that with certainty. Perhaps that’s because of all of the changes the industry—and the world—have undergone during this time. If anyone thinks that business moves slowly, they are mistaken.
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What a year it was

As I looked back at all the articles that we’ve published on the pages of Supply Chain Management Review this year, I came to a realization that had not hit me month-to-month,…
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Supply constraints? Demand-shaping revisited

Supply chain managers working with sales and marketing can ensure products in demand match with available supply to maximize profits.
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Harnessing generative AI for smarter supplier negotiations

Project seeks to “place a data scientist in the pockets” of procurement professionals.
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Supply chain network design for success

Accurate modeling of a company’s supply chain network provides insights into optimal production, storage locations, and raw materials supply network strategy. The modeling…
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Next-Gen SupplyChains: Underpinning your ability to manage complexity and drive innovation

Traditional supply chain engineering is no longer effective. But no single transformation model is universally useful. Instead, there are three pillars that should guide supply…
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Balanced supply chain management Part 4: The key—leading beyond the silo

Previous articles have discussed the characteristics of balanced supply chain management. But how do you implement it in practice? You have to move beyond the silo.
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It’s high time to go beyond visibility

Add vigilance to supply chain management with visibility. Real-time visibility of inventory, capacity, supply, and demand conditions is central to agile supply chain operations…
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Driving supply chain flexibility in an uncertain and volatile world

The SC-Flexibility Drivers Matrix creates a roadmap to creating the versatility modern supply chains require.
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From challenges to solutions: Highlights from NextGen 2024

A deep dive into the 2024 NextGen Supply Chain Conference, which took place in Chicago in October and attracted more than 175 attendees, exhibitors, and speakers from the…

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