Supply Chain Visibility

Companies are responding by diversifying sourcing and looking for new trade routes.

LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Tim Hotze, Senior Vice President Operations Planning, Network Steering and Optimization, for Target, at the SMC3 Connections conference in Salt Lake City last month. Hotze provided a detailed overview of key facets of Target's supply chain and logistics operations, including: sourcing, tariffs, AI, and Peak Season, among other topics.

This article describes what supply chain vigilance is about, why supply chain executives and managers need to embrace it, and how to create a vigilant organization able to manage increasing external uncertainty.

The company is focusing on cold storage, temperature-controlled delivery, and faster service worldwide.

In this podcast, LM Group News Editor interviews Mark Baxa, President & CEO of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).

Bellevue, Wash.-based Seagull Software, a provider of label management software for designing, printing, and automating the production of labels, barcodes, and RFID tags, announced that it has merged with Boca Raton, Fla.-based Mojix, a provider of item-level inventory management and traceability services. Seagull’s proprietary label management software, called BarTender, will now integrate with Mojix’s platform.

A survey recently published by global management consultancy McKinsey, entitled the “Supply Chain Pulse,” highlighted the ongoing changes in the ways companies are managing goods flow processes, including sourcing new materials, manufacturing, and distribution, as it relates to global trade and commerce, which tallies $32 billion annually across goods and services.

Miami-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System Inc. said today it has inked a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding equity of IFS Holdings LLC, also known as Impact Fulfillment Services (IFS), a provider of contract packaging, contract manufacturing, and warehousing services for shippers in the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare sectors.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor, for Logistics Management and Peerless Media, interviews Michael Farlekas, CEO of E2open, an Austin, Texas-based connected supply chain software platform services provider.

LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviewed Subramanian about his new role and various market trends and themes. The interview is below.

With 2023 underway, it is time to take a fresh look at where things stand, as they relate to key trends and themes germane to all things supply chain, logistics, and freight transportation. To be sure, things have changed on various fronts, especially when viewed against the backdrop of nearly three years ago (it is hard to believe it has been that long), at the onset of the pandemic. It is fair to say we all remember those times very well,...

While there is often a lot of talk about things like the need for, or even potential, for more standardized processes, when it comes to keeping truck wheels rolling and staying on schedule to meet tight deadlines, there is much more than meets the eye required to take that from a concept to a reality.

Memphis-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider FedEx and Chicago-based FourKites, a provider of real-time tracking and visibility solutions across transportation modes and digital platforms, announced that they have partnered up for a strategic alliance on a new supply chain visibility offering, which connects key data insights from each of their respective networks.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Glenn Koepke, GM, Network Collaboration, for Chicago-based FourKites, a provider of real-time tracking and visibility solutions across transportation modes and digital platforms.

The report, entitled “Supply Chain Assessment of the Transportation and Industrial Base: Freight and Logistics,” presents myriad steps and approaches, which can be taken by the federal government, Congress, states, and private companies can take to augment supply chains, both presently and in the future.