Top 10 Trends Impacting Supply Chain and Logistics

From AI development and implementation to everything supply chain visibility, 2025 brought a slew of trends impacting the supply chain and logistics space. 

Here are the 10 most popular articles on SDCExec.com in 2025.

1. The Global Enabled: 2025 Supply Chain Map. This Supply Chain Map reflects the best technology, new innovations, and services within the industry. This map is meant to serve as a guide to supply chain professionals as they make business decisions that enhance, improve efficiency and increase return on investment.
2. Implementing gender balance in supply chain management. The journey toward gender balance in supply chain management is not just about reaching quotas, it's about embracing diversity as a strategic advantage for all. This white paper details how DEI initiatives have emerged as powerful catalysts for change in supply chain management.
3. XTEL expands revenue management platform with Perfect Category acquisition. XTEL acquired Perfect Category, extending its AI investment in revenue management.
4. 3 next-gen AI models reshaping air cargo. In this expert column, Uri Yerushalmi, chief AI officer at Fetcherr, explains why these goal-driven, explainable models, powered by large market models, are designed to absorb vast streams of real-time data, identify deep interdependencies, and recommend actions.
5. Tracking brings visibility from raw material to customer hands. In this expert column, Daniel Sabin Diaz, global serialization, track-and-trace consultant for Setratech, details how solution providers typically fall into two categories: those focusing on traceability from raw materials to finished products, and those concentrating on traceability from finished products to the end customer.
6. How data builds supply chain confidence during peak e-commerce demand. As retailers brace for the next peak season, Melanie Nuce-Hilton, SVP, customer success, GS1 US, explains why the smartest strategy is to prepare their systems to perform through any disruption.
7. 8 considerations in warehouse ventilation design. In this expert column, originally published in 2022, Rick Kreczmer, president of RoboVent, details why the health of product and employees can be greatly affected by air filtration in a warehouse setting.
8. Pros to Know award: Supply chain leaders over-deliver in all facets of logistics. From nearshoring and tighter trade regulations to rising fuel costs, port strikes, implementation of emerging technologies and economic uncertainty, many of today's supply chain leaders are faced with a number of challenges. Meet the winners of this year's Pros to Know award.
9. How procurement leaders navigate the AI revolution. In this expert column, Stephan Donze, CEO of AODocs, details why CPOs will continue to turn their focus to advanced analytics, contracting automation, and supplier intelligence.
10. The effects of supply and demand on Netflix pricing strategies. Netflix’s pricing strategies are bound by the same laws of supply and demand that affect every other commercial entity’s rates, according to Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

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