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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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When Safety Talks, Supply Chains Thrive: A Blueprint for Resilience

As businesses look toward the future and into 2025, adopting open safety-driven communication strategies is essential to navigating the ever-changing and turbulent supply chain landscape.

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Guard Your Facility from Pests

By understanding the common pests that could affect your warehouse or distribution center and the risks they cause, as well as ways to help prevent or handle an infestation, you’ll be prepared to maintain a clean, safe and efficient operation all season.

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AI-Powered Safety Assistant to Strengthen EHS Teams

Intenseye released Chief, an AI-powered safety assistant designed to equip EHS teams to further strengthen their organization’s safety position in properly collecting, analyzing, reporting on, and driving actions from safety data.

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How Are You Tackling Facility Cleaning Challenges? Take Our Survey on Machine vs. Manual Solutions!

From labor shortages to hard-to-reach spaces, facility managers are facing significant cleaning challenges. This quick survey will explore how machine-based cleaning solutions are helping overcome these issues.

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Disruption Preparedness in Supply and Demand

By leveraging tools like SBOM and PBOM, creating customized policies and learning from recent security breaches, businesses can build resilience against future disruptions.

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Strengthening Supply Chains in the Face of Disaster

As supply chain professionals, we have a unique role to play in building resilience—not just for our businesses, but for our communities and society as a whole— to weather any storm.

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The Wake of Disruption and Destruction in Supply Chain: Alexis Asks

The impacts of hurricane Helene, now Milton, and the port strike, are shaping up to spell disruption with a capital D. With collaboration, technology and communication, supply chains are moving forward the best they can.

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DDoS Attacks Skyrocket, Hacktivist Activity Surges: Study

The supply chain industry is experiencing a 43% increase in the number of application-layer attacks and a 30% increase in volumetric attacks, especially in Europe and the Middle East, according to research from NETSCOUT Systems Inc.

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3 Tips to Prepare Supply Chains for Record Hurricane Season

While hurricane building standards have come a long way since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the supply chain can now update its own practices to mitigate the damage and impact from these superstorms.

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Safeguarding the Cold Chain Against Weather Extremes: Alexis Asks

Hurricane Beryl kicked off the 2024 hurricane season and more than ever, safeguards against impending weather-related risks are crucial for the success of the supply chain.

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3 Best Practices to Help Your Automated Warehouses Stay Safe from Fire

By following a few best practices, warehouse owners and fire sprinkler contractors can develop effective, affordable ASRS fire protection schemes that can help keep product moving and business running.

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Hurricane Beryl Projected to Cause up to $32B in Damage: AccuWeather

AccuWeather’s preliminary estimate of the total damage and economic loss from Hurricane Beryl sits at $28-32 billion.

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Data Reveals the 2023 Top 5 Supply Chain Disruptions

New data provided by Resilinc highlights the top drivers of supply chain disruptions from the past year.

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The Overlooked Barrier to Workplace Safety

Employers need to be proactive about sourcing information from their employees – and most importantly, ensure workers feel safe to voice concerns no matter what societal challenge their class or ethnic background presents.

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Cyber Threats Remain Leading Concern to Supply Chain Leaders

In fact, 58% said they worry some or a great deal about cyber, ranking it just behind broad economic uncertainty (59%).

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Executives Expect Supply Chain Security Challenges in Year Ahead: Study

Of over 1,000 C-suite and other executives, almost half (44.9%) expect an increase in the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ supply chains in the year ahead, according to a new Deloitte poll.

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Cyberattacks Against Critical Infrastructure on the Rise: Study

OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents in the last three years have already exceeded the total number reported between 1991-2000.

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Regulation Impacts: Canada’s Forced & Child Labor Act

Compliance check reports will provide a digital audit trail and proof of the measures that businesses have taken to minimize the risks of forced labor and child labor in their supply chains.

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Ensuring Warehouse Safety: Why Hi-Viz Apparel Matters

Hi-viz apparel can help mitigate many of these risks and increase warehousing safety. Here's how.

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Securing the Chain: Proactive Strategies to Mitigate Supply Chain Cyberattacks

Just like how we learned to come to terms with COVID and embrace the “new normal”, cybersecurity also needs to be part of that new normal.

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Cybersecurity Connected Service Hub to Mitigate Increased Cyber Threat in Digital and Operational Environments

Schneider Electric launched a Managed Security Services (MSS) offering to help customers in operational technology (OT) environments address the increased cyber risk associated with the demand for remote access and connectivity technologies.

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Industrial Outdoor Storage: Key Strategies for Supply Chain Operators

By following these tips and remaining flexible, supply chain operators can navigate the challenges of the IOS market and find the space they need to keep their operations running smoothly.

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Exploring the Unique Benefits of 3D Indoor Maps

Tossing out your paper maps and implementing 3D indoor mapping can improve user experiences, safety and accessibility in your workspace.

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Taking Advantage of the Supply Chain Slowdown

Business leaders must reimagine their approach to planning and discern where automation will most benefit their operations. They must also work with supply chain partners to ensure real-time access to critical data for informed decision making.

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The Issue of Forced Labor and the Supply Chain: Alexis Asks

Managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics developing in the supply chain field. This week we explore UFLPA and the work still needed to ensure fair and safe working practices and improve traceability efforts.

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Here Are 3 Ways AR Smart Glasses are Disrupting Field Service

Smart glasses solutions are allowing users to connect to remote experts and artificial intelligence (AI), along with IoT and work instructions, all hands-free, to improve first time resolution rates, boost customer satisfaction and save on travel costs.

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AI-Powered Perimeter Surveillance Solution

Betacom and its partners Axis Communications and Evolon Technology have revealed a new AI-powered perimeter surveillance solution, Betacom PSS.

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Prioritizing Worker Health and Safety in Your Supply Chain

Workplace injuries can occur in any industry, but they’re especially prevalent in the supply chain and logistics industry and workers need to be educated on how to be safe.

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Using Odor Control to Help Deter Warehouse Pests

By being proactive with your facility maintenance, you are not only lowering the risk of a costly pest infestation, but also ensuring your product quality and business reputation are secure for your customer safety and satisfaction.

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Business' Connect with Non-Profits to Make Strides in Disaster Aid Access

ALAN launches an initiative, with funding through a Walmart Foundation grant, to help non-profits build stronger disaster supply chain networks.