Friday, May 15, 2026 · Kyungmin Kook and Elisa Ruiz Mugica
AI-powered drone automation is helping warehouses reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve inventory accuracy, and lower operational waste, demonstrating how inventory management can become a meaningful driver of supply chain sustainability.
High engagement from across the supply chain industry has prompted the NextGen Supply Chain Conference to extend both its award submission and speaker proposal deadlines to June 1, giving organizations additional time to showcase real-world execution and transformation…
Thursday, May 14, 2026 · Andrew Byer and Mike Dobslaw
Supply chains create competitive advantage when they move beyond siloed operational metrics and align every supply, planning, manufacturing, and logistics decision directly to evolving business goals, customer expectations, and market strategy.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 · Walter Salek, MS SCM program director, Elmhurst University
The battle for last-mile dominance is no longer about retail alone, but about which AI-driven logistics network can most effectively balance automation, labor, consumer behavior, and fulfillment economics in an increasingly complex delivery environment.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 · Andrea Montecchi, Chairman, Oliver Wight
Organizations that achieve strong C-suite synchronization through integrated business planning, aligned leadership behaviors, and enterprise-wide visibility are better positioned to turn strategy into consistent operational execution and long-term business performance.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is exposing how deeply modern supply chains depend on petroleum-based inputs, creating cascading disruptions across transportation, agriculture, plastics, chemicals, semiconductors, and global consumer markets.
Penske Logistics is the latest to introduce a new platform designed to unify transportation, warehousing, partner, and inventory data into a more continuous operational view aimed at accelerating decision-making and improving execution.
Regenerative supply chains move beyond simply reducing environmental and social harm by focusing on restoring the ecosystems, communities, and production systems that long-term supply chain resilience and competitiveness depend on.
Benchmark supply chains are shifting from internally driven planning to a Right-to-Left model synchronized with actual consumption. The result: lower inventory, stronger service, and measurable gains in total value.
Agentic AI is shifting procurement from insight to execution by autonomously managing high-volume, low-value transactions and unlocking scale, consistency, and incremental savings across the long tail of spend.
Amazon’s new Supply Chain Services platform formalizes a long-building strategy, with VP Peter Larsen explaining why the company believes scale, data, and volatility readiness give it an edge in a crowded 3PL market.
Gather AI’s expansion into lift-mounted cameras and enhanced drones reflects a broader shift from scan-based tracking to continuous, AI-driven visibility that captures every movement inside the warehouse.
Körber’s collaboration with NVIDIA highlights how advances in computing power and physics-based simulation are turning digital twins into practical, real-time decision tools for supply chain design, execution, and optimization.
Human-in-the-loop automation is emerging as the most practical path for warehouse robotics, as real-world supply chain variability prevents fully autonomous “lights-out” operations from delivering consistent performance.
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