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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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State of Warehouse Labor Report Highlights Workforce Trends

52% of survey respondents cite finding reliable, quality labor as their top challenge.

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WorkStep Acquires WorkHound to Further Empower the Frontline Workforce

WorkHound was founded to elevate the frontline experience for the logistics and transportation workforce.

Women in Supply Chain Award 2025: Nominations Open

This award recognizes female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. Deadline for submissions extended to Friday, May 30.

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Trucking, Warehousing Sectors Experience Uptick in Q1 Wage Growth: Study

Trucking and warehousing experienced a 16% and 15% wage growth in Q1, respectively, hitting new heights not seen since 2022.

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Women in Supply Chain: Nulogy's Christine Barnhart Talks Changing DEI Narratives on Women’s Progress

Christine Barnhart, chief industry and ecosystem officer for Nulogy, explores the impact of bias and changing DEI narratives on women’s progress.

Pros to Know: Let's Talk Supply Chain's Sarah Barnes-Humphrey Talks Diversity, Logistics and Women in Supply Chain

We talked with Barnes-Humphrey about the 3 things logistics companies should be doing and investing in in 2025, what it takes to support more diverse candidates in the workforce and why championing women in supply chain is so important.

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Work-Based Learning Experiences for High School Students

Here's how early career training helps student succeed in an uncertain workforce.

Women in Supply Chain Forum: Registration Open

This year’s theme, “Women on the Rise: Strengthening Leadership Pipelines,” will bring together leading experts to discuss mentorship, self-advocacy, collaboration, education, and creating a pipeline of supply chain professionals.

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Economy, Cyber Threats, Talent Rank as Critical Near-Term Risks: Study

Risks related to talent – whether challenges about attracting and retaining talent or increasing labor costs – occupy three of the Top 5 short-term risks, indicating significant ongoing challenges.

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International Women’s Day: Companies to Anchor DEI Initiatives, Policies into Business Outcomes

Continuing to raise awareness every day – not just on International Women’s Day – is vital. Without steadfast company policies and initiatives, there’s no structure for gender equality to be supported on.

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International Women’s Day Details Urgent Need for More Women in Tech and Engineering

Gender diversity is not an optional add-on; it’s a business imperative. Whether it’s automated order-fulfillment technology or artificial intelligence, the ability to integrate diverse thinking into engineering projects is crucial.

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CSCOs Experience Trade Flow Disruptions

Despite anticipating such geopolitical shifts, only 15% of respondents felt moderately prepared for their impact.

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ToolsGroup, Resilinc, Ericsson, ShipBob, ClimateAi, Kaleris: Personnel News

Personnel updates sees new appointments and promotions at ShipBob, Ericsson and more.

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Workforce Development Solution Enhances Interview Processes That Could Be Hindering Talent Search

SHL announces Smart Interview Professional, a new solution that helps organizations conduct structured interviews at scale, in a fair and consistent way while enhancing the candidate experience.

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How to Attract More Women to Skilled Trade Careers

By empowering women to enter and grow within these skilled trade industries, we’ll unlock a tremendously powerful force in helping us build more, faster.

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What 2024 Taught Us About How to Thrive as Supply Chain Executives

Promoting transparency throughout the supply chain or greening operations, supply chain managers must become more data-driven than ever before and deploy software and hardware solutions that support that goal.

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BambooHR Data Reveals Decline in Employee Satisfaction

Restaurant and food and beverage experienced a new five-year low. The finance sector dropped to a new five-year low. And, the technology space dropped from Q3, a similar trend that occurred in 2023’s Q4.

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Driver Shortages Result in Loss of $95.5M a Week: Study

altLINE scraped the largest job listing aggregate on the web and found 7,213 truck driver jobs being advertised each day, suggesting a potential continuous deficit of 24,043 truckers.

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Lean Solutions Group's Lean Ambassador Program for Industry Growth

Now, with the Lean Ambassador Program, LSG is offering an exciting opportunity for professionals and organizations to earn significant referral incentives by introducing clients to LSG's comprehensive solutions.

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DP World, Aras, Geodis, A3: Personnel News

Personnel updates sees new appointments and promotions at Aras, GEODIS and more.

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More Than Half of Industry Workers See Colleagues Bypass Essential Processes: Study

New research reveals that over half of workers in manufacturing and logistics have seen colleagues reducing work quality and skipping essential processes in the past year – a concerning sign for industry compliance.

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The Global Enabled: 2025 Supply Chain Map

This Supply Chain Map serves as a guide to supply chain professionals, as they make business decisions that enhance, improve efficiency and increase ROI.

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Model N Appoints New Chief Executive Officer

Personnel updates sees new appointments and promotions at Savage, Narvar and more.

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Bridging the Gap Between C-Suite and Supply Chain Leaders to Drive Innovation

To successfully communicate the value of supply chain innovation to the c-suite, supply chain leaders must frame their initiatives within the context of business outcomes, using data to demonstrate potential ROI.

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MISNA Announces Leadership Transition

Personnel updates sees new appointments and promotions at Norfolk Southern and more.

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Manufacturers Report Negative Impacts on Production Due to Employee Turnover: Survey

These and other findings come from the new Quickbase research report, The State of Manufacturing 2025: Navigating Technological Changes, examining the manufacturing sector’s struggles with the labor shortage.

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Women in Supply Chain Award Paves Way for Future Female Logistics Leaders

These women are doing remarkable things for their communities, organizations and teams and are paving the way for future young female leaders to be a part of an industry that’s making a difference. Thank you to this year's sponsors.

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Norfolk Southern Names Ann A. Adams Chief Human Resources Officer

Personnel updates sees new appointments and promotions at Rethink Robotics, GEODIS and more.

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Wonolo Launches AI-Powered Job Management Solution

Wonolo unveils its AI-powered, end-to-end job management solution. This platform streamlines job posting, improves job matching with real-time insights and enhances transparency for Wonolo workers.

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Flexible Schedules Key to Job Satisfaction for Frontline Workers: Study

Flexibility is key to retention, with 77% of workers placing flexible schedules at the top of their list of priorities, according to the annual Flexible Workforce Report produced by WorkWhile.