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Why a “Perfect Fit” TMS Beats Feature-Packed Systems
When picking a Transportation Management System (TMS), shiny features, slick dashboards, and buzzwords can be distracting. But here’s the truth: real ROI doesn’t come from having the most bells and whistles. It comes from finding a TMS that fits your transportation complexity like a glove.
5 Questions I Would Like to be Asked About the Logistics Behind Traveling
Operators are under pressure. They’re expected to move faster, do more with less, and somehow keep everything running smoothly while their systems, tools, and data are a mess. Now, AI is adding a whole new layer. On one hand, it’s exciting. The potential is real. On the other, a lot of teams feel stuck. They know they should be using AI, but they’re not sure where it fits into their day-to-day work…
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Why a “Perfect Fit” TMS Beats Feature-Packed Systems
When picking a Transportation Management System (TMS), shiny features, slick dashboards, and buzzwords can be distracting. But here’s the truth: real ROI doesn’t come from having the most bells and whistles. It comes from finding a TMS that fits your transportation complexity like a glove.
Hire, Onboard, Manage: Treating AI Agents Like New Team Members
Operators are under pressure. They’re expected to move faster, do more with less, and somehow keep everything running smoothly while their systems, tools, and data are a mess. Now, AI is adding a whole new layer. On one hand, it’s exciting. The potential is real. On the other, a lot of teams feel stuck. They know they should be using AI, but they’re not sure where it fits into their day-to-day work…
5 Questions I Would Like to be Asked About the Logistics Behind Traveling
Operators are under pressure. They’re expected to move faster, do more with less, and somehow keep everything running smoothly while their systems, tools, and data are a mess. Now, AI is adding a whole new layer. On one hand, it’s exciting. The potential is real. On the other, a lot of teams feel stuck. They know they should be using AI, but they’re not sure where it fits into their day-to-day work…
5 questions I frequently get asked about automating operations with AI
Operators are under pressure. They’re expected to move faster, do more with less, and somehow keep everything running smoothly while their systems, tools, and data are a mess. Now, AI is adding a whole new layer. On one hand, it’s exciting. The potential is real. On the other, a lot of teams feel stuck. They know they should be using AI, but they’re not sure where it fits into their day-to-day work…
The Future of Supply Chains Starts With Better Questions
Do Supply Chains exist in the public sector? The short answer is “YES!” I spent the first 25 years of my career in the private sector where I worked in warehouse operations, industrial engineering, and consulting, all in the logistics and supply chain area…
Five Questions I Wished People Asked Me About Public Sector Supply Chains
Do Supply Chains exist in the public sector? The short answer is “YES!” I spent the first 25 years of my career in the private sector where I worked in warehouse operations, industrial engineering, and consulting, all in the logistics and supply chain area…
What a Buyer Wants, What a Buyer Needs
Simply put, the job of a buyer is really about buying the right thing at the right time for the right price. It sounds simple, but it really is very complicated because everything that’s going on in the world impacts the timing, the availability, and the price of the product.
5 Things I Wish More People Asked About Supply Chains in Latin America
Addressing Scope 3 emissions, which constitute a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, is necessary to delivering carbon neutrality across operations. Organizations must entrench an eco-consciousness culture into their core values beyond direct emissions control.
Navigating Hidden Freight Costs: Taking Control of Unexpected Charges
Logistics leaders must control costs while maintaining service quality, but hidden freight charges often erode profits due to poor visibility.
Enabling Procurement Professions to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions
Addressing Scope 3 emissions, which constitute a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, is necessary to delivering carbon neutrality across operations. Organizations must entrench an eco-consciousness culture into their core values beyond direct emissions control.
Supply Chain Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in Africa
Benefits and Drawbacks of AI in the Transportation Industry
Technology is advancing quickly and we all get to experience quick changes in innovation devices. It has become almost impossible today to do any job without
How the Delivery Experience Is Not a ‘One Size Fits All’
The ecommerce industry has been steadily growing over the last few years, accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic which led to a surge in demand for online products and services.
From Recruiting to the Driver’s Seat: How to Improve Your Driver Experience
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Manufacturing Toolbox for Next-Level Productivity
The story of the manufacturing industry has been one of progress. Few manufacturers continue to produce the same products as they did in their infancy years.
Nothing Can Mask the Need for Protection for Health Care Workers
During the Revolutionary War it was common for fledging Americans to melt lead and pewter household implements and recast the liquid into ammunition.
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Empowering Smarter Distribution: The Critical Role of Integrator Consultants in Your Automation Strategy
In a world where customer demands are rising and budgets are tightening, operational leaders face a tough mandate: scale faster, deliver more — all without growing the team. If you’re feeling the pressure to expand capabilities without expanding payroll, this eBook is your roadmap to making it happen.
How to Scale Operations Without Scaling Your Payroll
In a world where customer demands are rising and budgets are tightening, operational leaders face a tough mandate: scale faster, deliver more — all without growing the team. If you’re feeling the pressure to expand capabilities without expanding payroll, this eBook is your roadmap to making it happen.
The Supply Chain Back Office Is Broken
Your TMS and ERP aren’t enough. Despite billions spent on supply chain tech, most teams still run on PDFs, spreadsheets, and email threads—creating manual chaos that slows everything down.
Understanding the Foundation of Visibility
Most organizations talk about visibility—but few truly achieve it. Are you one of them?
6 Strategies for Building an Adaptive Supply Chain
Traditional supply chains react, while Adaptive Supply Chains are built to anticipate and evolve. Learn how these strategies can transform your supply chain and multiply margins despite today’s turbulent market environment.
Unlocking Fulfillment Potential: Robotic-Assisted Picking Engineered to Boost Your Profits
Zebra Robotics Automation is revitalizing AMR-assisted picking to optimize fulfillment efficiency and productivity with up to 30% fewer robots need in comparison to legacy systems. Their innovative approach can help significantly lower your cost per unit by…
Team Collaboration and PCB Design
PCB design has evolved from a single designer handling layouts to a collaborative effort among experts, especially for complex products like tablets and smartphones. With teams often working remotely, effective collaboration tools are essential to avoid errors and delays.
How to Batch Factor for Right-Sized Automation
Get right-sized warehouse automation. Unlock the potential of your warehouse order fulfillment operations. Learn how SKU Batch Factor is calculated and how it influences automation size and Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) design to save you from…
Visibility Guide- Ensuring high data quality to maximize ROI of real-time transportation visibility solutions
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Empowering Smarter Distribution: The Critical Role of Integrator Consultants in Your Automation Strategy
In a world where customer demands are rising and budgets are tightening, operational leaders face a tough mandate: scale faster, deliver more — all without growing the team. If you’re feeling the pressure to expand capabilities without expanding payroll, this eBook is your roadmap to making it happen.
How to Scale Operations Without Scaling Your Payroll
In a world where customer demands are rising and budgets are tightening, operational leaders face a tough mandate: scale faster, deliver more — all without growing the team. If you’re feeling the pressure to expand capabilities without expanding payroll, this eBook is your roadmap to making it happen.
The Supply Chain Back Office Is Broken
Your TMS and ERP aren’t enough. Despite billions spent on supply chain tech, most teams still run on PDFs, spreadsheets, and email threads—creating manual chaos that slows everything down.
Understanding the Foundation of Visibility
Most organizations talk about visibility—but few truly achieve it. Are you one of them?
6 Strategies for Building an Adaptive Supply Chain
Traditional supply chains react, while Adaptive Supply Chains are built to anticipate and evolve. Learn how these strategies can transform your supply chain and multiply margins despite today’s turbulent market environment.
Unlocking Fulfillment Potential: Robotic-Assisted Picking Engineered to Boost Your Profits
Zebra Robotics Automation is revitalizing AMR-assisted picking to optimize fulfillment efficiency and productivity with up to 30% fewer robots need in comparison to legacy systems. Their innovative approach can help significantly lower your cost per unit by…
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Something to Talk About: Topics Shaping Supply Chain
Tariffs have the entire world on edge, and the Supply Chain Now hosts are staying abreast of the very latest developments on the tariffs front to share them with listeners. But believe it or not, there’s a lot more going on in the world that affects the supply chain industry than tariffs, and Supply Chain Now is keeping listeners informed about all the topics important to them.
Supply Chain Now’s Guide to the Red Sea Crisis
An estimated 12% of global trade worth more than $1 trillion traverses the Red Sea each year. When Houthi rebels started attacking commercial vessels in November 2023, ocean carriers began rerouting container ships around Africa’s Cape of Good Horn rather than through the Suez Canal on voyages from Asia to Europe. That greatly increased travel time and costs.
Meet the Supply Chain Now Host: Jake Barr
Supply Chain Now is the voice of the supply chain industry, and our hosts are experts in the field. Podcast listeners and webinar viewers tune in to hear the sage advice of host Jake Barr, heralded as an architect of global supply chain strategy and creator of “profit powerhouses.”
Meet the Supply Chain Now Host: Marty Parker
Supply Chain Now is the voice of the supply chain industry, and our hosts are experts in the field. Podcast listeners tune in to hear the words of wisdom from host Marty Parker, whose practical advice is taken everywhere from the classroom to the C-suite.
Beyond the Mic: How to Maximize Your Supply Chain Podcast’s Reach and Impact
Podcasting has become a crowded — and noisy — field. It seems these days everyone has a mic — and a platform.
Regulatory Changes In 2025: What Shippers Need To Know
It’s safe to say supply chain podcasters won’t run out of things to talk about this year. With ever-evolving policies like the United States’ changing trade levies, experienced supply chain podcasts aren’t outlining podcasts, booking guests, or recording programs too far in advance. These days, material can be stale before it even airs!
Supply Chain Podcasts in 2025: Building Brand Leaders
The first podcast available for download reportedly was Queen Elizabeth’s 2004 Christmas address. Apparently, people were hungry to download anything they could.
Small Companies, Big Impacts: Three Supply Chain Startups to Know
Supply chain technology is a hot commodity. Venture capital investments in supply chain tech and technology-based logistics companies have totaled an estimated $15.4 billion in 2024, and more than 150 supply chain startups have been acquired in the last two years as logistics companies work to leverage cutting-edge technology to improve their services.
Global Trade Trends: Three Businesses Bringing Innovation to Supply Chain
Global trade practitioners face waves of uncertainty with the possibilities of slews of international tariffs and work stoppages at ports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. There are other weighty challenges as well, including conflicts in Russia-Ukraine and the Middle East, increasingly dangerous storms, and seasonal capacity strains and congestion.
The Future Is Now: Four Businesses Transforming Modern Warehousing
Warehousing historically hasn’t been a particularly exciting topic. But times have changed. Thanks to technological innovations, warehouse automation has made the receiving, housing, and distributing of goods truly fascinating stuff.
Big Ideas: What’s on the Horizon for Supply Chain 2025?
Change is certainly going to come, and a number of developments are expected to impact the supply chain in 2025. That includes the increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, investment growth in renewable energy, and momentum gains for nearshoring.
Supply Chain Now Guide to Lean Manufacturing: Tried, True, and Transformative
Lean manufacturing is all about reducing waste and increasing efficiency. Manufacturers have been implementing lean practices for decades and have stood the test of time. Now, with technological advancements, lean methodologies can be more transformative than ever before.
Automation Advancements: 3 Businesses Leveraging Automation for Optimization
Prospects of supply chain automation have the industry abuzz. It’s even become a major sticking point in the International Longshoremen’s Association contract negotiations with the United States Maritime Alliance.
The New Guard: Three Supply Chain Influencers to Watch
“The term ‘influencer’ has become quite ubiquitous in the online space, especially in social media marketing. What was previously being done by celebrities is now taken over by regular people with large followings on social media platforms,” said Influencer Marketing Hub.
Why Invest in Supply Chain Podcasts?
Today, podcasts rival streaming television programming in terms of the number and variety of offerings. Perhaps that’s because podcasts are the ideal vehicle for businesses to deliver thought leadership and expand brand visibility.
Supply Chain Now’s Guide to Resilience in the Supply Chain
The resiliency of the supply chain has been tested time and time again — strained by weather-related events like hurricanes, global crises such as COVID-19, disasters like the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, and security breaches from cyberattacks.
Today’s Shippers Demand Effective Transportation Management
In today’s complex supply chain landscape, effective transportation management is less an ambition than a necessity. As the logistics industry attempts to keep pace with rapid technological advancements, a dynamic regulatory environment, and ever-shifting market dynamics, the field of transportation management is working to keep pace with the constantly changing demands of a complex transportation sector.
Eco-Friendly Innovations: How Sustainable Practices Are Reshaping Supply Chains
Scope 3 emissions reportedly account for more than 70% of businesses’ carbon footprints. That huge percentage gives an indication of just how critical supply chain sustainability efforts are to the planet.
Breaking Through: Supply Chain Podcasts Cut Through the Noise in a Crowded Field
Back in the day, business news and ideas often flowed from office watercooler conversations. Then company figureheads started popping up on cable TV news programs, lecturing on stock market drops, trade increases, industry gains, and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain shortfalls. Now, podcasts are all the rage, and it can be difficult to stand out in a crowded field. There’s a lot of noise in supply chain podcasts, in particular. How do you break through to share your supply chain insights with potentially millions of listeners?
New Kids on the Block: Three Voices Transforming the Supply Chain
Supply chain management is constantly evolving. Whether you see the glass as half full or half empty, this dynamic environment brings both challenges and opportunities to the fore. The good news is that, while challenges continue to emerge, experts and thought leaders who offer insights and strategies are changing the industry, too.
Supply Chain Podcasts as a Learning Tool: Building Industry Engagement
The late Steve Jobs demonstrated how to create a podcast using Apple’s audio editing software during a developers conference in 2006. Today, Apple hosts nearly 2.7 million podcasts devoted to everything from AI to zoology. There’s obviously a lot of noise in every industry, including supply chain, and not all supply chain podcasts are the same. Your time is valuable. You should get your supply chain industry insights from proven leaders, not self-proclaimed freight and logistics experts pontificating from their basements.
Supply Chain Now Guide: Protecting Supply Chains From Cyberattacks
In July, what is being called the “largest IT outage in history” grounded air cargo and travel and caused “substantial disruptions” to the networks of such supply chain giants as FedEx and UPS. While cybersecurity company CrowdStrike blamed the worldwide outage on a “software update” and not a cyberattack, the event illustrates the importance of taking measures to safeguard the supply chain systems we all rely on for the movement of goods and people.
Making Moves: What Supply Chain Leaders Are Planning in 2024
A British logistician is credited with coining the term “supply chain management” in the early 1980s, but it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that the world became familiar with such aspects of supply chain operations as logistics, inventory and supplier management, and procurement. The influence of supply chain leaders also has grown with the understanding of the importance of the supply chain in the global economy
Cutting Through the Noise: Amplifying Innovation through Supply Chain Podcasts
First, it was print, then radio and television, but with the advent of the internet, the effect of mass media multiplied a hundredfold. Today, information reaches the ends of the globe instantly, and some of the main drivers of that are video and podcasts, albeit aided by different social media platforms. Both are powerful mediums for communicating trends and news in any industry. Supply chain podcasts play a crucial role in disseminating information, serving as a powerful tool for enlightening the public.
Guide to Sustainability in Logistics: Implementing Eco-Friendly Practices
The logistics and transport sector contributes about 24% of global CO2 emissions. Considering the push for supply chain sustainability across different sectors, the need for lower emissions has been heating up in recent years.
Supply Chain Now’s Guide to Supply Chain Disruptions
The modern supply chain landscape is defined by constant disruption, demanding a proactive approach to challenges. In our guide to supply chain disruptions, we delve into the critical sources of disruption reshaping the industry: climate change, global conflict, and labor disputes.
FreightTech Round-Up: 9 Solutions Changing the Game
It’s an exciting, transformative period for the global supply chain. After several years of disruptions from the pandemic, high-stakes labor challenges, and unstable global trade, supply chain innovators are looking to future-focused solutions that can help logistics professionals not just survive, but thrive in this complex environment. In this article, we explore nine FreightTech solutions (in no particular order) that are making a significant impact in 2024.
Stay in the Know: Three Supply Chain Now Podcasts to Keep You Up to Date
Whether you’re a seasoned supply chain professional or a newcomer, keeping up with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices is essential for maintaining a competitive edge. One of the most effective ways to do this is by tuning into podcasts that focus on the industry. Here, we introduce three influential podcasts: Supply Chain Now, Logistics with Purpose, and Digital Transformers.
Top 10 Supply Chain Podcasts You Should be Listening to Right Now
As the supply chain industry continues to face profound transformation, staying updated on the latest trends, innovations, and best practices in the space is crucial. With over 464 million podcast listeners worldwide, podcasts have become an invaluable resource for professionals seeking insights and inspiration. The wonderful world of the web means you can find a podcast in any niche, but how do you separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to quality supply chain podcasts?
Is Shipping on the Mend? Follow the Spend with 3Q Results from the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index
The U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index for 3Q 2021 has been released, and one thing remains clear: spend is up. More specifically, year over year, quarterly freight spend showed the second largest increase ever – rising 32.6% from 3Q 2020.
This Week In Supply Chain Now: December 6th – December 10th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: June 21st – 25th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: June 7th – 11th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: May 31st – June 4th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: May 24th – 28th
What’s been happening at Supply Chain Now? This week, our program hosts welcomed many special guests this week to talk about startup growth, manufacturing, procurement, and, of course, supply chain!
This Week In Supply Chain Now: May 17th – 21st
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: May 10th – 14th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: May 3rd – 7th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: April 26th – 30th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: April 18th – 23rd
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: April 12th – 16th
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This Week In Supply Chain Now: April 5th – 9th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: October 5th – 9th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: March 15th – 19th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: February 15th – 19th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: February 1st – 5th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now- July 6th – 10th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now- July 11th-17th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now- July 20th-24th
What a week! Five episodes, four livestreams, and so much to listen to and watch! Did you catch all the episodes? If not, listen here!
This Week on Supply Chain Now- July 25th – 31st
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: August 1st – 7th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: August 8th – 14th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: August 17th – 21st
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: August 24th – 28th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: August 31st – September 4th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: September 5th – 11th
It might have been a short week for some, but at Supply Chain Now, it was chock-full of great interviews, conversations, livestreams, and episodes!
This Week on Supply Chain Now: September 12th – 18th
Rolling right through mid-September with more great interviews, conversations, livestreams, and episodes!
This Week on Supply Chain Now: September 21st – 25th
Heading right into October (can you believe it’s next week??) with more great interviews, conversations, livestreams, and episodes!
This Week on Supply Chain Now: September 26th – October 2nd
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This Week on Supply Chain Now- June 29th – July 3rd
We kicked off the week with This Week in Business History, where Scott looks back at some of the biggest historical events in business history for the week ahead.
This Week on Supply Chain Now: October 12th – 16th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: October 17th – 23rd
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: October 26th – 30th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: October 31st – November 6th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: November 1st – November 12th
This week on Supply Chain Now, we released our 500th episode, gained key insight into the latest industry news, & heard from featured guests who shared their journeys
This Week on Supply Chain Now: November 16th – November 20th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: November 30th – December 4th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: December 7th – 11th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: January 4th – 8th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: January 25th – 29th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: April 11-17
Listen as Daniel Studdard with the Atlanta Regional Commission, talks with Greg and Scott from MODEX 2020 about keeping freight moving:
This Week on Supply Chain Now: April 20-24
We started out the week with a new episode in our Logistics with a Purpose series sponsored by our good friends at Vector Global Logistics.
This Week at Supply Chain Now: April 27th – May 1st
We started out the week wrapping up our last episode from MODEX 2020 with supply chain visionary Diego Pantoja-Navaja with Oracle.
This Week in Supply Chain Now: May 2nd – 8th
We added a special Saturday episode on May 2nd and featured the first of three speakers from the 2020 AIAG CR Summit and their insights from the conference
This Week in Supply Chain Now: May 9th-15th
We added a special Saturday episode on May 9th and featured another speaker from the 2020 AIAG CR Summit, Eric Kane with Bloomberg
This Week in Supply Chain Now: May 18th – 22nd
On Monday, we welcomed Dan Reeve with Esker to the show to talk about how organizations can leverage AI effectively to win in uncertain times.
This Week in Supply Chain Now: May 26th – 29th
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This Week in Supply Chain Now: June 1st – 5th
On Monday, Scott and Greg chatted with Tim Dooner with FreightWaves, about working from home and how it will work going forward, brokers
This Week on Supply Chain Now: June 8th – 12th
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This Week on Supply Chain Now: Week of June 15th-19th
We introduced a new series on Monday, with This Week in Business History, where Scott looks back at some of the biggest historical events in business history
This Week on Supply Chain Now: June 22nd – 26th
We kicked off the week with This Week in Business History, where Scott looks back at some of the biggest historical events in business history for the week ahead.
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Leaders in Supply Chain Innovation Share Insights on Supply Chain Now
Explore this Microsoft article on global supply chain innovation and resilience, featuring leaders who have shared their insights on our Supply Chain Now podcast…
FreightTech Round-Up: 9 Solutions Changing the Game
It’s an exciting, transformative period for the global supply chain. After several years of disruptions from the pandemic, high-stakes labor challenges, and unstable global trade, supply chain innovators are looking to future-focused solutions that can help logistics professionals not just survive, but thrive in this complex environment. In this article, we explore nine FreightTech solutions (in no particular order) that are making a significant impact in 2024.
Veteran Voices Launches New Partnership
Supply Chain Now Founder and CEO Scott Luton announced that its “Veteran Voices” podcast will re-launch this year in partnership with two non-profit organizations…
Supply Chain Now and Dial P for Procurement Recognized
Thinkers 360 recently searched its entire content library to select the best business, technology, and sustainability podcasts from their Thinkers360 member thought leaders…
Karin Bursa Recognized as Top Woman in Supply Chain
TEKTOK host Karin Bursa was recently recognized as one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Top Women in Supply Chain for 2022…
Cyberattacks: Western countries hack each other too. Here’s why
Cyber-attacks are a common feature of today’s political and economical climate, with rogue nation-states using the power of the internet to target countries…
Boeing Uses Relational Contracting with Indigenous Businesses
Kelly Barner, host of Dial P for Procurement, procurement thought leader, and managing director of Buyers Meeting Point, explains why formal relational contracting…
Empowering Supplier Diversity Managers to Succeed
Dial P for Procurement host Kelly Barner recently displayed her expertise in supplier diversity in writing…
Top 100 Global Thought Leaders on Technology to Follow in 2022
To be a successful leader you can use social media, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and other popular social channels for numerous purposes…
Supply Chain Career Advice From Women Who Paved the Way
Despite logistics being a male-dominated industry, a growing number of women are changing things up. Kelly Barner, Host of Supply Chain Now’s Dial P for Procurement…
Kevin L. Jackson Featured in Newsweek
Kevin L. Jackson, host of Supply Chain Now’s Digital Transformers, recently wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek…
Is Shipping on the Mend? Follow the Spend with 3Q Results from the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index
The U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index for 3Q 2021 has been released, and one thing remains clear: spend is up. More specifically, year over year, quarterly freight spend showed the second largest increase ever – rising 32.6% from 3Q 2020.
Supply Chain Now Announces Jason Hoch, President of Imperative Entertainment’s Podcast Division, as Advisor
Supply Chain Now announces its partnership with the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) to launch a new livestream series spotlighting the North American
Supply Chain Now CEO, Scott Luton, Featured on The Sourcing Hero Podcast
Our CEO Scott Luton was recently featured on The Sourcing Hero podcast and hosted by Dial P for Procurement host and Buyers Meeting Point founder, Kelly Barner.
Supply Chain Now CMO, Amanda Luton, Featured in the Top 100 Women of Supply Chain
In their inaugrual awards, and in association with IBM, Supply Chain Digital has recognized the exceptional women around the globe driving innovation and working on the leading edge of supply chain. Our very own CMO, Amanda Luton…
Supply Chain Now Feature in Reverse Logistics Magazine
Supply Chain Now and the Reverse Logistics Association recently relaunched the Reverse Logistics Series livestream series, and we’re pleased to be featured in the…
Catch the Replay of Our Industry 4.0 Webinar with SAP
Did you miss our recent Industry 4.0 webinar with SAP? On March 23rd, Mike Lackey with SAP and Tobias Hoffmeister with MHP Americas Inc joined Scott and Greg to discuss…
“Timeless Lessons in Leadership” – Scott Luton is Featured on Amir Ghannad’s Transformative Leader Podcast
On March 25th, Supply Chain Now CEO, Founder, and Host was the featured guest on Amir Ghannad’s Transformative Leader podcast.
Supply Chain Now announces its partnership with the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
Supply Chain Now announces its partnership with the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) to launch a new livestream series spotlighting the North American
The Digital Supply Chain podcast
Karin Bursa, Host of Supply Chain Now’s TEKTOK was a guest on The Digital Supply Chain Podcast with Tom Raftery.
How to create the best retail customer experience: 3 trends to know
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How to improve retail customer experience: Listen to The Youth
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Supply Chain Now announces an expanded program portfolio to include Procurement.
Supply Chain Now announces an expanded program portfolio to include Procurement.
Understanding Logistics: A Discussion with Scott Luton, Founder & CEO of Supply Chain Now.
John got connected with Scott after listening to one of our podcast episodes that dove into the physical and automated aspects of supply chain.
The role of content in the supply chain with Supply Chain Now!
Scott Luton and Greg White were both featured on a recent episode of the Consulting Logistics podcast with Kyle McNaught.
Digital Transformers and TEKTOK Digital Supply Chain podcasts
Supply Chain Now announces an expanded program portfolio to focus on innovation.
Acknowledging Supply Chain Reality
Greg White was interviewed by Kim Winter for Logistics Executive Group on October 26th for their Business Insights Series
Industry Insights from the Legend Behind Supply Chain Now
Scott Luton was interviewed by Kim Winter for Logistics Executive Groupo on October 6th for their Business Insights Series
Meat shortages impacting more than just the big fast food chains
Supply Chain Now Principle, Greg White, was featured in the WSB-TV Atlanta article and segment on meat shortages impacting
Coronavirus and shopping for supplies
Coronavirus and shopping for supplies: Getting to the bottom of the toilet paper shortage
Toilet paper makers: What we are dealing with here is uncharted
Supply Chain Now Founder & CEO Scott Luton was featured in the CNN Business article, “Toilet paper makers:
Surge of shoppers at grocery stores eases
Supply Chain Now Principle & Host Greg White was featured in the AJC article “Surge of shoppers at grocery stores eases”
What the Truck?
Our Founder & CEO Scott Luton was featured on the March 13th episode of Freightwaves’ podcast, “What the Truck?!?”
Some store shelves quickly empty but experts say it’s short term
On March 13th, our Principle & Host Greg White was featured in the AJC article “Some store shelves quickly empty but experts say it’s short term”
Scott Luton was featured in the TechRepublic article
Nearly 200 cybersecurity incidents impacted supply chain entities in 2019,
Bringing Sexy Back – How Can a Supply Chain Podcast Have Thousands of Listeners?
Scott Luton is featured in the Industrial Sage article, “Bringing Sexy Back – How Can a Supply Chain Podcast Have Thousands of Listeners?”
Scott Luton joins Danny Gonzalez to discuss the inherent value
In IndustrialSage Episode 124, Scott Luton joins Danny Gonzalez to discuss the inherent value of niche media content for any industry.
increasing exposure and engagement with the bank’s
Supply Chain Now announced today that they will serve as the live streaming media partner for U.S. Bank
Top 10 Supply Chain Management Podcasts You Must Follow in 2020
Supply Chain Now, ranked by Feedspot as number 1 of their Top 10 Supply Chain Management Podcasts You Must Follow in 2020,
Paying More to Save More
Scott Luton is featured in the Wall Street Journal article, “Paying More to Save More: Companies Boosting Salaries for Supply Chain Executives,”
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Supply Chain Now’s Guide to Supply Chain Disruptions
The modern supply chain landscape is defined by constant disruption, demanding a proactive approach to challenges. In our guide to supply chain disruptions, we delve into the critical sources of disruption reshaping the industry: climate change, global conflict, and labor disputes.