November 2025
The November 2025 issue of Supply Chain Management Review explores the topics of global supply chain resilience, innovation leadership, and data-driven transformation. Highlights include strategies for building resilient value chains, navigating tariffs, advancing analytics maturity, and redefining leadership through mentorship. Plus: insights on cyber risks, warehouse tech adoption, and smarter equipment leasing.
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Tariffs are here to stay
For decades, business leaders largely assumed that globalization and free trade would steadily reduce barriers. Tariffs were seen as temporary political tools, usually…
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Designing supply chain networks that matter
In today’s increasingly volatile geopolitical business environment—characterized by fluctuating freight rates, persistent labor shortages, evolving customer expectations,…
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Embrace the hero maker’s craft to guide the quest for SC transformation
You know the names: Confucius, Yoda, Anne Sullivan, and Mr. Miyagi. Do you know what they did to earn their spot on this elite list? As you take a moment to think, let’s point…
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Building globally resilient value chains for sustained operations
Building globally resilient value chains requires agility, integration, and proactive design frameworks that enable organizations and nations to withstand disruption and sustain…
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How to leverage the innovation capabilities in your supply chain through organizational climate
The firms that win on innovation don’t just add suppliers—they cultivate an organizational climate that empowers people to learn, share, and act on external ideas.
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E-tailing update: Amazon’s grocery gambit
Amazon is doubling down on grocery with a bold same-day delivery push to 2,300 U.S. cities, positioning itself directly against Walmart’s two-channel dominance. But as the…
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Paying for it: 4 ways to reduce equipment lease expenditures
Smart sourcing, rigorous contract management, and competitive lease evaluation can cut equipment leasing costs by approximately 20% while preserving flexibility and access to…
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Tariffs as strategy: How to rethink import/export
In an era of shifting tariffs and trade uncertainty, companies must rethink import/export strategies around diversification, flexibility, and resilience to maintain…
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Supply chain analytics: Trends, benchmarks, and business impact
Supply chains generate massive amounts of data, and there is no shortage of tools designed to harness that data for better organizational decision-making. Many companies are…
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A reordering of the COO and CSCO logistics agenda
Persistent volatility from tariffs, inflation, high borrowing costs, and geopolitical shocks has made disruption the operating baseline. Rate disparities, capacity swings, and…
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2025 Warehouse/DC Operations Survey: Tech adoption marches on
Our annual survey shows that inventory challenges persist, but adoption of automation and technology remains strong, supported by rising CapEx budgets. The survey also…
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The Invisible Handshake: AI to AI procurement negotiations
Supply chain managers and procurement professionals are watching a new kind of negotiation take shape, one that doesn’t involve people sitting across a table or trading…
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Supply chains under (cyber) attack
Cyberattacks are crippling supply chains and exposing hidden vulnerabilities in the very technologies meant to drive efficiency. As cloud platforms, robotics, and connected…
