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Last-Mile
Top 5 Logistics Predictions for 2025
2025 is already shaping up to be quite the year. Here’s an outline of Top 5 logistics and crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead.
Manufacturing
Overcoming Market Challenges to Enhance Efficiency in Manufacturing, Distribution
Project Management Software
2025 Top Supply Chain Projects Award: Nominations Open
Reverse Logistics
Fraudulent Returns and Claims Cost Retailers Billions in 2024: Research
Manufacturing
Managing Inventory Risk in a Manufacturing Environment
Regulations
What America's 'Golden Age' Might Mean for Supply Chains: Alexis Asks
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Material Handling Equipment
ProMat Preview: Where Supply Chain Solutions Come Together
With 1,200 of the world’s leading manufacturing and supply chain solution providers under one roof, ProMat 2025 provides hands-on demonstrations, 4 keynote sessions and 200-plus educational sessions.
Trucking
3 Things to Watch in Freight: U.S. Bank
With the new administration in place, there has been an array of supply chain-related news and headlines. Here are three things to watch in freight, according to experts at U.S. Bank.
Project Management Software
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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Visibility Software
Purolator Launches Open Verify Returns Solution
Purolator announces the launch of Open Verify: an innovative returns solution to help businesses combat fraud.
Sourcing Solutions
5 Questions for the Path to AI-Enabled Procurement Hyper-Acceleration
By asking the right questions and aligning AI with your overarching business objectives, you can unlock AI's true potential to accelerate procurement performance and deliver lasting value across the organization.
Procurement Software
A Playbook for Peak Season Success
As retailers navigate this season, ensuring a focus on data-driven forecasting, seamless stock management and the right mix of technology and teamwork is key to a successful peak.
Project Management Software
How Orchestration Drives Efficiency, Visibility and Speed through Effective Collaboration
Procurement orchestration isn’t just a tool; it’s a strategic advantage, helping organizations create a resilient framework ready to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges.
AI/AR
Embracing an AI-Enabled Holiday Season to Navigate E-Commerce Complexities
The holiday season is an opportunity for businesses to shine, and with the right AI-driven tools in place, they can turn this season’s challenges into success stories during a historical first: a holiday seasoned backed by AI.
Manufacturing
North American Manufacturers Begin Stockpiling to Buffer Against Tariffs
The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index signals the smallest level of spare capacity in global supply chains since June in November, as the index rose to -0.20, from -0.39 previously.
Last-Mile
UPS Capital Examines How Merchants Are Handling Consumers’ Speed Demands
The 2024 Need for Speed report, commissioned by UPS Capital, explores strategies for navigating this challenge, drawing insights from 500 e-commerce merchants and 1,000 U.S. consumers.
Reverse Logistics
54% of Retailers are Looking for Ways to Increase the Financial Recovery from Returns: Report
As retailers prepare for a bustling holiday returns season, Optoro, Inc. announces the results of its new “2024 Returns Unwrapped” report. This year, the company predicts $160B in holiday returns.
Sourcing Solutions
94% of Consumers Plan to Spend the Same or More Online This Season: Survey
Inmar Intelligence releases its Pre-Holiday E-Commerce Survey Report, which sheds light on the evolving landscape of holiday shopping and the critical need for alignment between consumer expectations and retailer strategies.
Reverse Logistics
Holiday Returns Expected to Reach $160 Billion This Season: Research
With the holiday shopping season underway, a new report from CBRE projects a staggering $160 billion—roughly 16% of all holiday retail sales—will be returned this year.
Sourcing Solutions
Scalable Automation: The Key to Staying Competitive in Fulfillment
With reliable equipment, materials and service, and the right packaging supplier, it’s possible to build a future-ready process that delivers consistent results.
Procurement Software
Procurement Strategies for a Smooth Peak Season: Alexis Asks
The best of times and the worst of times, peak season can be a rewarding challenge; with a proactive and technology-enhanced approach, procurement processes can evolve into a competitive advantage.
Procurement Software
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Role in Revolutionizing Procurement
Predictive and prescriptive analytics can help businesses make the right procurement decisions and advances in AI will leverage data to further shape predictions around future outcomes based on existing information.
Procurement Software
Gartner Identifies 3 Advancements in Generative AI That Will Shape the Future of Procurement
Agentic reasoning, multimodality and AI agents are the advancements that will redefine how procurement operates and significantly impact the agendas of chief procurement officers (CPOs).
Visibility Software
Predictive Analytics Beyond Peak: Preparing Retailers for the Unexpected
Ultimately, predictive analytics isn’t just a tool for managing peak seasons; it’s a year-round necessity that helps retailers navigate unpredictable demands, ensuring they remain agile and responsive in an ever-changing marketplace.
Reverse Logistics
Rebranding of goTRG to ReturnPro Promotes Future of Returns Management
goTRG announces a strategic rebranding and name change to ReturnPro. This new identity underscores the Company's position as the only fully integrated returns management solution to solve returns.
Manufacturing
Factory Demand Weakens Across Major Economies in October: GEP Index
The index remained in territory that indicated one of the highest levels of spare capacity at global suppliers in over a year during October, with no imminent turnaround in Western manufacturing in sight.
Manufacturing
How Smart Component Feedback Is Revolutionizing Predictive Maintenance
Although predictive maintenance is a proven and rapidly maturing field, it’s still seen as new by many customers who fear the risks of adopting it too soon.
Manufacturing
What Proposed Tariffs Could Mean for American Manufacturing: Alexis Asks
Post-election, manufacturers big and small are examining president-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs with questions surrounding the impacts and how these plans might transpire.
Manufacturing
Trump Tariff Proposals Could Cost Americans $78B in Annual Spending Power: NRF Study
A universal 10-20% tariff on imports from all foreign countries and an additional 60-100% tariff on imports specifically from China would impact apparel, toys, furniture, household appliances, footwear and travel goods.
Sourcing Solutions
Shortened Peak Season, Inflation/Affordability and Online Shopping Trends: Survey
Kenco has brought back its survey of over 250 U.S. consumers to get a pulse on their peak season spending habits and their holiday shopping plans and concerns.
Manufacturing
Trump vs. Harris: How Each Candidate’s Policies Would Impact the M&D Industry
No matter what, it’s critical to know how the election outcome may impact your M&D business and to plan accordingly for either outcome
E-Commerce Solutions
Consumers Are Willing to Pay for Convenience Despite Tight Shopping Budgets: Survey
Cin7 releases the findings of their Winning The Holiday Dollar report, which surveyed over 600 consumers on their holiday shopping plans and preferences.
Sourcing & Procurement
Move Over, Humans: AI Agents Are Ready to Operate Our Supply Chains!
Picture this: procurement leaders and teams who not only respond to market shocks in real time, but are able to predict and mitigate risk while continuing to achieve our cost and sustainability targets.
Procurement Software
Indicators to Watch Ahead of the 2024 Holiday Peak Season
Supply is high while demand and rates are low, so an inflationary market flip in the near term is highly unlikely unless an unforeseen and severe black swan event occurs.
Sourcing Solutions
Preparing Procurement Teams for U.S. Election Impacts: Alexis Asks
As elections signal shifts in government policies, procurement teams must proactively prepare for potential changes that could affect supply chains, regulatory environments and market dynamics.
Procurement Software
Advice to Procurement Leaders: Focus on What You Can Control
While it is important to have these tactics in your playbook and prepare for external risks as much as possible, don’t overlook your ability to focus on what you can best control in procurement: the focus of your supplier relationships.
Procurement Software
Pros to Know Award: Nominations Open
This award recognizes influential individuals whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage supply chain for competitive advantage. Submissions close Dec. 27.
Procurement Software
How GenAI is Powering Competitive Sourcing Events for Retail Procurement Teams
GenAI empowers retail procurement teams and their organizations to make business decisions based on objective data that lead to the best possible outcomes.
Reverse Logistics
Retailers Recognize the Struggle of Returns This Holiday Season: Report
With the holidays fast approaching, goTRG finds insights into the issues that retailers expect to impact their bottom line this holiday season.
