The #1 Voice of Supply Chain

In today’s supply chains, every movement, handoff, and delay has a direct impact on cost, efficiency, and production continuity. For manufacturers operating at scale, maintaining visibility across carriers, yards, inventory, and transportation networks is critical to preventing disruptions and meeting performance expectations. Join Supply Chain Now, Kaleris, and materials logistics expert Ken Moore of Subaru of Indiana Automotive as they discuss his team’s journey from manual yard tracking and spreadsheets to a highly visible, data-driven logistics operation spanning multiple facilities, thousands of trailer locations, and hundreds of daily trailer movements. Learn how yard management, KPI-driven oversight, trailer tracking, and emerging AI capabilities are helping Ken’s department improve operational visibility, manage costs, optimize resources, and keep production moving. This conversation will explore practical lessons learned, best practices for measuring logistics performance, and how technology can help supply chain teams make faster, more informed decisions without losing the critical human expertise needed to drive results. Webinar Key Takeaways: •Why visibility is the foundation for controlling logistics costs, resources, and operational performance. •How a material logistics team evolved from spreadsheets, radio calls, and manual processes to a connected, data-driven logistics operation. •Best practices for establishing meaningful KPIs that drive accountability and continuous improvement.…

Demand volatility is often treated as an operations problem—but the root cause may be commercial. Order patterns, promotional calendars, and end-of-period buying spikes can force businesses to add trucks, inventory, space, and labor while margin absorbs the cost. In this webinar, Supply Chain Now hosts Scott Luton and Karin Bursa join Mark Gilham of Enable to examine how one consumer goods distributor changed its commercial terms to reshape customer ordering behavior. The result: smoother demand, greater capacity from existing assets, lower operational strain, and improved profitability—without additional capital investment. Mark will break down what changed, why it worked, and how supply chain, commercial, and finance leaders can identify similar opportunities in their own businesses. Webinar Key Takeaways: – Why demand volatility usually originates in commercial terms, and how to tell whether yours does – How changing customer buying behavior creates capacity without capital expenditure – The mechanics of the case study: what changed, what the results were, over what timeframe – How to model the full value of a behavioral change across margin, cost-to-serve, and service levels – Where to look first in your own business, and how to build the case with commercial and finance Whether you’re carrying the…

The path to autonomous supply chain operations requires more than just transparency and generic AI solutions. It requires technologies that understand your company’s operational realities—a connecting link that ties together all your internal silos, external suppliers, and customers to create a contextual foundation for coordinated, autonomous AI agents that collaborate with humans. In this Supply Chain Now and Celonis webinar, hosted by Scott Luton and Jake Barr, Alejandra Quinones and Christoph Schettler of Celonis will explore how creating this unique operational context enables human experts and AI agents alike to understand past performance, monitor current operations, and make better decisions about future “what if” scenarios. This contextual foundation helps ensure AI agents act appropriately within defined parameters while accelerating decision making across your entire value chain. Key Takeaways: Why generic AI fails without an understanding of your organization’s unique operational DNA How operational context bridges departmental silos and drives cross functional collaboration Best practices for establishing a context layer that supports autonomous decision making

Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling has spent a decade getting to a place most operators never reach: labor performance that drives financial outcomes, not just an operations metric. In this webinar hosted by Scott Luton & Kim Reuter, John Ferrell, Field Operations Manager at Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, and Richard Knight, Senior Director of Solutions at Easy Metrics, will share what that looks like in practice, and what other leaders can learn from it. The conversation centers on cost and margin rather than throughput alone, and on how leading operators are reframing labor performance as a financial lever rather than a productivity one. At Reyes, that reframe took both: unified data practices, where integrating labor and workflow data exposed exactly where time and cost were going each day, and the mindset shifts and phased rollout that made it hold. John and Richard will get into why the financial outcome depended on the second as much as the first. A firsthand story rounds out the discussion: using efficiency gains to support and strengthen the workforce, with less overtime and more normalized workdays, not just a better balance sheet. The discussion will also touch on how sustained labor performance can inform bigger-picture decisions, including how…

SAP AI Inside the Supply Chain: From Silo to Orchestration Supply chain leaders are uniquely positioned to drive transformation. Advances in agentic AI have opened a window to reimagine how supply chains operate — moving from reactive firefighting to intelligent, autonomous orchestration. This Supply Chain Now webinar presents SAP’s vision for Autonomous Supply Chain Management — where AI agents, rich business data, and end-to-end applications work together to anticipate change, unify planning and execution, and unlock continuous value. Built on Joule and the SAP Business AI Platform, the Autonomous Suite spans the full supply chain lifecycle across Design, Plan, Buy, Make, Deliver, and Operate. Join us to explore real-world agent capabilities, industry-specific outcomes, and how governance and sustainability are built into every process from the ground up. Webinar Key Takeaways: Why standalone AI fails supply chains — and what makes SAP’s approach different How Joule and AI agents coordinate intent, data, and action across the enterprise Industry-specific autonomous capabilities and real-world performance benchmarks How governance, compliance, and sustainability are embedded — not added as an afterthought

Most organizations understand their direct suppliers. Far fewer understand the suppliers behind them. As supply chains become more complex, the greatest risks often originate well beyond Tier 1, from critical sub-tier suppliers, shared manufacturing dependencies, geopolitical exposure, raw material shortages and single points of failure that remain invisible until disruption occurs. Join Sphera and Supply Chain Now to explore why leading organizations are adopting an N-tier approach to supply chain risk management. We’ll discuss how greater supply chain transparency enables organizations to uncover hidden dependencies, understand the true impact of supplier risk on products and operations, and make faster, more informed decisions before disruption affects the business. Whether you’re responsible for procurement, sourcing, supply chain operations or enterprise risk, you’ll gain practical insights into how N-tier intelligence is helping organizations move beyond reactive risk monitoring towards proactive supply chain resilience. You’ll learn: Why taking a product-first approach to supply chain intelligence delivers more actionable insights than monitoring suppliers alone. Why understanding your supply chain beyond Tier 1 is becoming essential for managing operational and business risk. How to uncover hidden supplier dependencies, concentration risk and single points of failure before they lead to disruption. How to connect supplier intelligence to…

95% of enterprise agentic AI pilots never deliver ROI (MIT, 2025). The gap isn’t ambition — it’s the jump from a model that works in a sandbox to an agent trusted to act on the plant floor, inside the systems your team already runs on. This session, with host Scott Luton and featured guests Vika Smilansky and Marc Amarillas with DataRobot, breaks down what that jump actually takes, and what it looks like solved, with agents orchestrated across the value chain, not in isolated silos: – Supply chain: multi-tier supplier risk and tariff exposure caught before a single-source failure becomes a line-down event – Plant operations: bottlenecks and downtime caught before they hit the shift report – Aftermarket: warranty leakage and reactive dispatch turned back into retained margin We’ll ground our conversation in real use cases, including a tariff signal that put $2.5B in revenue at risk, resolved in 72 hours instead of weeks, with a human signing off at every step. Not a pilot. Not a dashboard. A production-grade agent workforce — connecting planning, operations, and service to move manufacturers from reactive to proactive. Webinar Key Takeaways: Understand why 95% of agentic AI pilots fail — and the specific…

What’s costing companies millions right now? Tariff changes. Customs compliance risks. Ocean freight disruptions. Air cargo volatility. Security threats. Join industry experts Henrik Holm and Linda Moran, and hosts Scott Luton and Jake Barr, as they break down the latest market developments and share practical strategies to help businesses navigate today’s rapidly changing global trade environment. Watch Now On Demand!