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A Reflection on Peak Returns Season

As the industry moves into 2025, businesses must refine their reverse logistics strategies to balance customer experience, fraud prevention, and environmental responsibility, ensuring a more efficient and sustainable future for returns management.

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State of Warehousing: Most Agile Warehouses Will be Most Successful

The current and future state of warehousing encompasses the impact of AI and automation, taking consideration of cybersecurity risks, balancing human and tech-driven solutions, and adopting sustainable practices.

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Pros to Know Award: Supply Chain Leaders Over-Deliver in All Facets of Logistics

Every year, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Pros to Know award celebrates the true supply chain professionals to know. Let's meet the winners.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Dean Bain Talks Adaptive Supply Chain

We talked exclusively with Bain about the concept of design-to-pay, making time to mentor and the ins and outs of adaptive supply chains.

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Reverse Logistics: Managing Returns with Warehouse Automation

When an influx in returns threatens to sink warehouses, innovation keeps them afloat. The latest robotics and AI tools elevate returns from a warehouse's greatest vulnerability to one of its strongest profit drivers.

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Truckload Freight Ranked Most Fraud-Prone Mode: TIA State of Fraud Report

TIA Watchdog recorded over 1,600 fraud reports between September 2024 and February 2025, a 65% increase from the previous period.

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Security Index Reveals Record Cargo Theft Levels in California, Florida, and Texas

Top targeted goods included food and beverages, household items, and vehicle accessories.

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Generix Transforms Warehouse Operations with Intelligent Management System

This new AI-powered application that optimizes all warehouse resources through intelligent forecasting, planning, and analytics, all in a single environment.

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Removing Barriers to Adoption of AI Agents in PLM and Digital Engineering

AI agents are becoming an invaluable asset in PLM and digital engineering. With the right approach, AI agents will ultimately drive more efficient product development and manufacturing processes.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Paul Webb Details Integrated Scenario Planning Framework

We talked exclusively with Webb about driving forward-thinking throughout the company, launching margin multipliers and what it takes to implement an integrated scenario planning framework.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Rafael Vasquez Talks Overcoming Cross-Border Challenges

Pros to Know: Tecsys' Alex Lazzari Talks Importance of Cross-Functional Partnerships

Pros to Know: Apple's Ruchi Dholakia Talks SFTP-Based End-to-End Planning

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Pros to Know: Exiger's Brandon Daniels Talks Offering Proprietary Technologies to Charity Leaders

Pros to Know: Tecsys' Kishore Balasubramanya Talks AI-Powered Demand Planning

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CEVA Logistics to Acquire Borusan Tedarik

The acquisition would nearly double the size of CEVA’s domestic warehousing and distribution operations.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Paul Webb Details Integrated Scenario Planning Framework

We talked exclusively with Webb about driving forward-thinking throughout the company, launching margin multipliers and what it takes to implement an integrated scenario planning framework.

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How Agentic AI is Fixing Supply Chain Chaos in Real Time

As supply chains continue to experience turbulence, the role of AI in procurement will only grow more critical. But those who embrace AI will outperform those who don’t.

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The Expanding Role of AI as a Proactive Supply Chain Risk Strategy

Relying on outdated management methods to prepare for the unpredictable is folly. Modern supply chain management leveraging AI tools and predictive analytics puts any organization in a position to take control of the unknown.

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Top 11 Predictions for Navigating the Government Marketplace in Disruptive Times

At this moment, there are no absolutes. These times are too unique, and changes are occurring faster than one would have thought possible.

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AI Regulation: What’s Next for the U.S.

AI can be transformative, but only if assessed with a standard worthy of the actual trained practitioners behind the solutions.

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How AI Can Fix What the Internet Broke

AI is powering the omnichannel experience and bringing disparate data together to blend the physical and digital retail experience.

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Warehousing and Fulfillment M&As on the Rise

Looking ahead, easing sector pressures and continued rate cuts will likely revitalize warehousing and fulfillment market M&A activity.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Rafael Vasquez Talks Overcoming Cross-Border Challenges

We talked exclusively with Vasquez about what it takes to deliver successful customer service, strengthening the supply chain customer community and how to overcome cross-border challenges.

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Leveraging AI for Emissions Reporting Data

Ultimately, emissions reporting is no longer just an environmental responsibility. It is a financial and strategic imperative.

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5 Practical Procurement Solutions for Harnessing AI

The key to successful AI implementation lies in a pragmatic approach that combines technological prowess with human expertise. Here's why.

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Oracle Cloud SCM to Help Customers Navigate Tariff and Global Trade Complexity

The new capabilities help automate global supply chains processes, increase order shipment visibility, and enhance supply chain decision-making.

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Pimberly to Advance Digital Product Passport Compliance

With the EU’s digital product passport regulations for clothing and textiles fast approaching, it’s crucial that retailers act now.

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Cobots to Power Multi-Function Warehouse Automation

The upgraded Carter platform is designed to transform into a multi-functional solution within the same software-defined platform.

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SICK’s Networked Factory to Unlock Intelligent Automation

The new SIG300 IO-Link Master from SICK is designed for efficient automation tasks.

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Tailored Automation Solutions to Deliver up to 200% ROI in First Year: Study

The Top 5 functions delivering the fastest ROI include onboarding workflows, invoice processing, lead qualification, and SLA monitoring.

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Kinaxis Launches Tariff Response Solution

Kinaxis Tariff Response helps companies simulate tariff exposure, run strategic scenarios, and make data-informed decisions quickly.

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BILL to Unify Procure-to-Pay Workflows

This solution unifies procure-to-pay workflows with AP, AR, spend and expense and insights and forecasting in a single, intuitive platform.

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JLG Expands IoT Platform

The latest enhancements redefine how fleet managers monitor, manage and maintain their equipment.

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Tennant Company Launches Autonomous Cleaning Power for Large, Complex Facilities

The X6 ROVR is a mid-sized autonomous floor scrubber engineered to clean up to 75,000 square feet per cycle.

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DispatchTrack Releases Enhanced Last-Mile Delivery Management Capabilities

The update introduces four new capabilities that address critical challenges: pre-delivery customer engagement, visibility-only interface, store pickup optimization, and customer will-call management.

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Navigating Economic Headwinds: Tariffs and Business Uncertainty in 2025

If the administration ultimately moves forward with the reciprocal tariff rates, they will weigh heavily on the economy’s growth prospects this year.

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Pros to Know: Tecsys' Alex Lazzari Talks Importance of Cross-Functional Partnerships

We talked exclusively with Lazzari about what it takes to implement a WES and the importance of driving communication across cross-functional teams.

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Why Reverse Logistics Needs to Be a Priority in 2025

The retailers showing the strongest financial performance today aren’t necessarily those avoiding returns altogether; they’re treating reverse logistics as a core business function requiring investment, innovation, and constant refinement.