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.

Supply Chain Digest is the industry's most valuable supply chain management and logistics publication. Supply Chain Digest is a weekly, on-line newsletter with lively information, news and commentary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Lineage is seeking compensation for estimated damages of more than $1 billion from the fire. That includes property and reputational damage, cleanup expenses and lawsuits filed by neighborhood ...

Our Annual Review on the State of Labor in the Supply Chain Unionization Rises a Bit in 2025 What's Happening with Blue Collar Wages?

It’s been tough times in the US freight sector for more than two years, but carriers showed mostly up results in August, according to the Cass Freight Report for the month released this week. Supply ...

Last week, we published our annual column on The Labor (Day) Supply Chain 2026, full of facts about US labor, including unionization rates, the number of workers in manufacturing and warehousing and ...