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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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ProMat 2025: Innovation, Automation Used to Help Workers

Companies are striving to improve their workers’ lives and safety with better tools and ideas in the material handling and supply chain spaces.

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AI Adoption Already Achieving Breakthrough ROI for Supply Chain Organizations: Study

Organizations that invest in upskilling activities and create clear governance structures for AI see adoption rates 3.5 times higher than those focusing solely on technological capabilities.

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2025 Top Supply Chain Projects Award: Nominations Open

Nominations are open for Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2025 Top Supply Chain Projects award, which profiles innovative case study-type projects designed to automate, optimize, streamline and improve the supply chain.

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Implementing “Just Right” Automation

"Just right" automation happens when the optimal balance between human involvement and automated systems is identified and achieved. It's about strategically automating specific tasks and processes to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality.

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Automation and AI Redefine Logistics Excellence for 3PLs

For shippers and logistics managers, partnering with 3PLs that leverage AI and automation is becoming an operational necessity.

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Pros to Know: Ambi Robotics' Sandra Kazee Named Overall Leader in Excellence

We talked exclusively with Kazee to learn more about the future of automated warehousing and what other supply chain leaders can do to support women in engineering.

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AI-Powered Functional Modules for Fashion, Logistics Industries

Featuring ABB’s own AI-based vision technology, the Fashion Inductor and Parcel Inductor offer solutions for item picking and sorter induction.

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Locus Robotics Introduces AI-Driven Warehouse Automation

LOCUSINTELLIGENCE leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and real-time operational data, and continuously adapts and optimizes fulfillment operations at scale.

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Overcoming Market Challenges to Enhance Efficiency in Manufacturing, Distribution

Given current market conditions, manufacturers must continuously seek new ways to stay competitive, agile, and cost-effective.

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How Emerging Technologies Transform Supply Chain and Manufacturing Workflows

The 3 key investments should be AI-powered process optimization, composable commerce, and personalization to drive demand fulfillment.

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AI is Key to SMB Resilience in a Disrupted Supply Chain

The message is clear: in the face of persistent supply chain disruptions, traditional methods are no longer enough for SMBs.

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Log-hub’s Supply Chain Apps to Streamline Cost Management, Route Optimization

Log-hub’s new and enhanced tools are designed to help businesses improve cost management, enhance routing, and more.

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Infrastructure Investments Ranked Biggest Opportunity for Global Transportation, Logistics Industry: Study

A majority of those surveyed ranked infrastructure investments among the sector’s biggest business opportunities for the next two years.

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How User Networks and AI Bring Opportunity Amid Trade Turmoil

Business customers will increasingly expect their suppliers to have a deep understanding of their own supply chains and engage in collaboration to deal with a quickly shifting geopolitical/trade-war landscape.

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Why Agile Pricing Strategies Start with AI

Manufacturers remain cautiously optimistic about 2025 and are preparing for better economic times. Key to that preparation is implementing AI across their pricing strategies.

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How Autonomous Negotiation is Shaping Supply Chain Efficiency

While automation has long been a part of supply chain operations, the next frontier lies in optimizing one of its most complex and resource-intensive aspects: negotiation.

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Loadsmart Launches YMS for Dock and Yard Operations

Loadsmart’s new YMS is digitizing docks, yards and gates by enabling customers to oversee truck movements, track assets and improve coordination from one interface.

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Manufacturers Are Adopting Smart Manufacturing Tech, Facing Deployment Challenges: Research

SYSPRO releases consolidated results from several surveys that show manufacturers are eager to adopt new technologies such as AI, automation and IIOT.

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Revenova’s AI Agent Inside Revenova TMS.

Revenova is improving efficiency with Artimus, an AI agent built to eliminate busywork and help logistics professionals focus on their customers.

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AI Agent to Transform Freight Payment Optimization

Pi integrates with existing tools and platforms to build a normalized supply chain knowledge graph.

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Lack of Visibility and Immature Security Strategies Culminate as Third-Party Risks: Study

Imprivata releases new global research with the Ponemon Institute which found that 47% of organizations have experienced a data breach or cyberattack over the past 12 months that involved a third-party accessing their network.

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project44’s New Capabilities to Automate, Optimize Supply Chain Tasks

project44 announced six capabilities designed to automate and optimize the most resource-intensive supply chain tasks.

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AI, Automation and Connectivity Are Drivers of New Age in Logistics: Report

Trigent Software launches its latest survey-based report, Adaptive Logistics: Tech that Transforms Uncertainty into Opportunity, a comprehensive study of the trends, challenges and innovations reshaping the transportation and logistics (T&L) industry.

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AI Teams for Logistics to Enable Autonomous Freight Procurement

Purpose-built to transform logistics operations, its new “Logistics-Services-as-Software“ model enables manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to replace manual tasks with intelligent automation.

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Emerging Tech Shaping the Future of Logistics in 2025

Emerging technologies like generative AI, real-time analytics software and scenario planning tools are advancing. Logistics teams must build a solid data foundation in 2025, if they haven’t already, to maximize these tools.

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Industry 4.0 Transforms Industrial DataOps: Alexis Asks

Industry 4.0 and other digital advancements have tackled the manufacturing sector and continue to do so. This year, these technologies are on the trajectory to further advancements and widespread adoption.

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The Industrial AI Revolution Will Continue to be Powered by Humans

It’s time to challenge the misconception that physical AI and robotics will be job killers. Upskilling, reskilling, enhancing safety and boosting productivity should be the key areas of focus.

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GenAI in Supply Chain Boosts Productivity Across Organizations, Adds Complications: Survey

Generative AI (GenAI) is being deployed by 72% of supply chain organizations, but most are experiencing middling results for productivity and ROI, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc.

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Solving Supply Chain Bottlenecks One Task at a Time

As businesses look to the future, it’s clear that integrating AI and robotics into supply chains isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Backstage Pass to Manifest Vegas 2025 Expo Hall

Editor-in-chief Marina Mayer sat down with the Manifest team to get a Backstage Pass to the Manifest Expo Hall. Let's find out what to expect at this year's show!