Shippers are bucking history and giving carriers more time to pick up their freight in a relatively soft market. What could be causing this and will it stick?
Knowing what the customer wants and when was once a relatively easy thing to predict. COVID has changed all that.
Import volumes have not realized the dip in shipping orders yet. What does this mean?
Inventory growth has forced companies to change their ordering strategy to a more flexible model.
S+V Technologies’ solution to sell products in transit caught the attention of investors including Ridgeline Partners, Chicago Ventures and project44 founder and CEO Jett McCandless.
Inventory levels grew at an astonishing pace in February. Is the supply chain crisis ending?
After a year and a half of predictive misses, procurement teams and supply chain managers are in need of Lithium to help treat their bipolar ordering behavior.
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In 2019 shippers crammed warehouses full of inventory coinciding with a stagnant freight market. As warehousing capacity tightens, could this contribute to the already tight transportation space?
Cooper Tire sold to Goodyear Tires in a deal worth about $2.8 billion. What effects does this have on Goodyear’s supply chain?
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of artificial intelligence in e-commerce, with companies utilizing the technology able to adapt quicker to changing consumer demands.
Lean inventory doesn’t sit well with supply volatility. The chip shortage, as well as the pandemic, have been a wake-up call for supply chain managers.
Executives from Horizon Fitness, Estes Forwarding Worldwide and The DDC Group talk during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME about keeping up with the trend of online ordering and home delivery.
“We expect that more shippers will shift from just-in-time supply chains to just-in-case supply chains,” U.S. CEO Mark McCullough said.
While mobile devices are common in many industries, the use of these devices to manage inventory is still limited.
The new Impinj R700 reader is designed for enterprise-grade RAIN RFID deployment, processing tags faster and with greater accuracy.
In partnership with Slync… retailers are shifting to omnichannel strategies to survive disruptions from e-commerce, but implementing omnichannel requires sophisticated supply chain data analytics.
In partnership with Slync… Markdowns cost retailers $300 billion a year, and inventory mismanagement is largely to blame.
