How to Build a Pandemic-Proof Global Supply Chain

June 11, 2020

Flock Freight Pandemic Proof

This guide explains how businesses can mitigate risk as they navigate logistics decisions on an international scale.

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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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U.S. Tariffs Prompt Economic Slowdown: Everstream Analytics Data

Data shows that plant closures, insolvencies, and layoffs in the United States have more than doubled in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the first quarter of 2024.

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Maintaining Warehouse Safety Through Proactive Pest Management

Warehouse safety goes beyond hard hats and steel-toed boots; a comprehensive pest management approach is critical to keeping employees safe.

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Supply Chain Visibility Helps Companies Pivot in Rapidly Changing Environment

Industries that import the most and least from tariffed countries include agriculture, manufacturing and retail, and utilities, financial and insurance industries, respectively.

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Impacts of U.S.-China Trade War

Several industries will be significantly impacted by the recent tariff changes due to reliance on either Chinese or U.S. manufacturing, the uniqueness of their products, and the profit margins within the sectors.

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Progressive Insurance Announces New Cargo Plus Coverage for For-Hire Truckers

Motor Truck Cargo coverage offers protection in the event a trucker is legally liable for damage to covered property while in the trucker’s exclusive physical custody and control.

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Why AI is Critical in Transitioning from Monitoring to Mitigating Risk

As AI technology continues to evolve, integrating this technology into supply chain risk management is vital for businesses taking a proactive approach to protecting their supply chains’ health.

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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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AI's Impact During Times of Extreme Weather

To achieve resilience goals, organizations can partner with supply chain leaders to integrate AI-powered solutions that enhance predictive analytics, digital twin simulations, and end-to-end logistics optimization.

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Equipment Sale Leaseback: Understanding IRS vs. FASB Considerations

When it comes to IRS tax considerations or Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) considerations for an equipment sale leaseback, here are several key points to keep in mind.

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Roambee Unveils Risk Planning AI Platform to Navigate Tariff Uncertainty

The Global Trade Lane Risk Planning Platform is an AI-driven analytics solution that delivers lane risk scores to help enterprises navigate volatile global logistics and trade lane planning.

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44% of U.S. Businesses Plan to Pass Tariff Costs to Customers

Nearly 90% of business leaders report macroeconomic factors have impacted their pricing levels over the past 12 months, with 44% describing the impact as “significant” or “severe.”

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U.S. Import and Export Volumes to Experience Cliff Event Similar to COVID-19 Response

Throughout May and possibly into June, import and export volumes should see a cliff event similar to the impacts felt during the immediate COVID response.

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Emerging Regions May Offer Opportunities for Global Trade: QIMA Study

For the first time since the pandemic, China’s relative share in the sourcing portfolios of Western buyers has diminished. This suggests that North American and European supply chains are intensifying efforts to reduce dependency on China.

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Highway Platform to Deliver Load-Level Protection, End-to-End Compliance for Freight Brokers

Load Lock+ and Exclusion Intel are designed to deliver load-level protection, real-time tracking, and end-to-end compliance for freight brokers.

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Pros to Know: EY Consulting's Sheri Hinish Details Why Sustainability Matters to Supply Chain Transformations

We talked exclusively with Hinish about the importance of sustainability and championing transformative strategies.

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Global Business Optimism Continues to Decline: Dun & Bradstreet

While financial confidence dropped 8.6% amid challenging business conditions, optimism levels for supply chain continuity were flat.

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North American Manufacturers Report Sharp Pullback Amid Tariff War: GEP Study

Overall, manufacturers’ stockpiling was the lowest in nine years, highlighting caution among procurement leaders worldwide about future demand.

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The Business Case for Sustainability Despite Global Uncertainty

An efficient, safe and resilient supply chain is a sustainable supply chain. The measurements and vernacular may be different, but the outcomes are the same.

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Ransomware Reaches Historic High in Q1

Manufacturing was the top industry hit by ransomware in Q1.

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Supply Chain Index Declines as Tariffs Hit Economy

March’s decline was due to contractions in inventory costs, warehousing prices and transportation prices.

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CEO Confidence Plummets Amid Tariffs Mandates: Study

The Index plummeted a historic 22 points from the previous quarter, from 100.8 to 78.5. This sharp decline is primarily driven by growing concerns over tariffs and heightened inflation.

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Tariffs, Economic Uncertainty Delay Freight Market Recovery: Study

Data shows truckload pricing staying at depressed levels after a small uptick in Q1.

Pros to Know: 3P Logistics’ Ilya Goncharov Talks Customized Screening Tools for Cargo Freight

We talked exclusively with Groncharov about what it takes to deliver oversized process equipment and why there’s a need for AI sanctions customized screening tools.

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Why Advanced Weather Modeling Must Be Part of Overall TMS Outlook

In an era where climate volatility is the new normal, leveraging predictive climate models, hyperlocal forecasts, and decision-support tools is not just a competitive advantage—it’s a necessity.