Reduce the number of "bad loads" that you are dispatching (e.g., poor capacity utilization). Many shippers just live with this. See if these loads can be held for a day to improve consolidation.

AI is all the rage across almost every process in business today. That includes warehousing and distribution, where this week the analysts at Gartner identified four globally disruptive AI trends that ...

Mr. Gilmore serves as Chief Editor of Supply Chain Digest. He has a 15-year career in the supply chain industry, most recently serving as Sr. Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for RedPrairie.

In today’s globalized economy, companies face unprecedented challenges in maintaining transparency throughout their supply chains. This lack of visibility poses obstacles to sustainability performance ...

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Grant Sernick is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at 3rdwave, a software platform purpose-built to simplify the operational chaos of international supply chains. With over 20 years of ...

Quietly, Western companies are sourcing fixed warehouse automation such as conveyor and sortation equipment direct from China, changing market dynamics and posing a threat to traditional automation ...

According to the maritime analysts at Drewry, port bottlenecks in several regions of the globe are disrupting trade, with Maersk recently highlighting what it says has been 15 years of underinvestment ...

Developers starting projects now are making a bet that leasing demand will continue to grow amid an uncertain economic outlook, Young adds.

Gartner publishes its “Magic Quadrant” rankings in a growing array of solution areas, where it famously rates vendors along two dimensions: Completeness of vision and ability to execute. Supply Chain ...

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) this week released the 2026 Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking, its flagship benchmarking report. Supply Chain Digest Says... “Freight ...

Brady Corp., a maker of labeling, safety and related businesses, shook up the data collection and mobile terminal sectors in late April with news it had acquired several businesses from industrial ...