3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (439+ words) The first question to address is who ultimately pays the higher cost of diesel in trucking markets. The answer is shippers. Whether it is contract markets, where diesel is priced explicitly and separately, or spot markets, where it is not,…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (149+ words) Stop Guessing What's Slowing You Down. The 2026 Data Already Knows.Supply Chain Management Review All Supply Chain Topics - Webinar: Garbage In, AI Out: Why Data Discipline Drives Supply Chain Optimization - News: Predicting failure before it happens: A new playbook for…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (956+ words) Pickup defects, which we define at late pickups from a vendor or shipper site, represent a very costly challenge in transportation cost management. Pickup defects often cascade to late departures from shipper or vendor sites and late arrivals at downstream…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (812+ words) CSCOs are confronting financial mandates to reduce supply chain costs as conflict in the Middle East introduces new constraints and price shocks. This is prompting leaders to review potential increases in transportation costs and reassess previously established cost management strategies....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (402+ words) Since 2020, supply chains have been in a period of transformation. Companies first sought to maintain continuity in the face of massive disruption and then pivoted to improve resiliency and manage growth in emerging channels, all while contending with persistent labor…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (441+ words) In today's retail world, too much inventory is as risky as carrying too little. One U.S. grocery chain, operating a hub-and-spoke distribution model, held 57 days of supply for dry food. Inventory turnover was low, safety stocks were excessive, and service levels…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (335+ words) In February 2025, Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) published my 12-part online article series on the Perfect Order. The article series'with accompanying "explainer" articles'was based on a single article written 20 years prior by Dr. Edward J. Marien that presented a (business) customer's…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (960+ words) For more than a decade, supply chain leaders have talked about visibility. Yet despite advances in transportation management systems (TMS), real-time tracking, and control towers, the challenge of having data is not the same as being able to act on…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1041+ words) In mid to late 2025, cargo theft was among the top issues facing the freight market. Then English-language proficiency enforcement took the stage, followed by non-domiciled CDLs. There was the continued freight recession chatter. None of those have gone away, but…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (187+ words) Cargo theft in the United States has entered a new phase, shifting from localized truck stop thefts to sophisticated schemes orchestrated by international crime networks, according to Scott Cornell, vice president of transportation risk and strategy at LogistIQ Insurance Solutions…...