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Knowing that a shipment will arrive six hours late is information. Knowing it early enough to reschedule labor, protect a customer commitment, avoid detention, or change...
Supply chain decision-making is difficult partly because the relevant information is distributed across products, locations, suppliers, orders, capacities, policies, and external events. A system may have...
Executive thesis. The model is becoming the least durable layer of the AI stack. Sustainable advantage will come from the operating architecture around AI: authoritative context,...
The Descartes Innovation Forum returns to Chicago this week at a time when logistics technology is moving rapidly from broad discussion of artificial intelligence and automation...
Most process maps tell you how a function works. Customers experience something different: the handoffs between functions. That difference is where a surprising amount of logistics...
Executive thesis. Tariffs have moved upstream from customs execution into network economics. A policy change can reshape sourcing, product margins, routing, inventory policy, and supplier viability...
Executive thesis. Trade compliance is no longer a back-office checkpoint. It is an operating constraint that can approve, block, reroute, delay, or reprice physical supply-chain activity....
Warehouse and transportation systems have traditionally been judged on execution reliability: receive the inventory, build the wave, pick the order, plan the shipment, tender the load,...
Executive thesis. Global trade management is moving from compliance transaction processing toward real-time supply chain control. Trade rules now alter sourcing, routing, inventory, landed cost, and...
The New Logistics Advantage — Part 6 of 9 Supply chain technology markets are usually described as categories. WMS, TMS, planning, visibility, control towers, order management,...
