Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

From electronics manufacturers to retail giants, companies are grappling with a complex landscape of rising duties and other supply chain challenges. The stated aim of those measures is to bolster domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign supply chains. Tariffs also destabilize supply chain operations.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

AI is starting to play a larger role in customer service. These three roles form the backbone of any change initiative. Logistics LTL/Truckload Services Artificial Intelligence HR & Labor Management Quality & Metrics Supply Chain Security & Risk Mgmt RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

Supply Chain Efficiency

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain There’s always been procurement in supply chains — but today’s CPO is a whole different animal. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain There’s always been procurement in supply chains — but today’s CPO is a whole different animal.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2025

Such a model, based on prioritizing unit economies and production at scale, doesn’t prepare manufacturers and retailers for the waves of disruption that are washing over global supply chains today. And they can identify alternative sources in the event of a disruption in the primary supply line, whatever the cause.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

As a result, Mexico’s role in North American supply chains is becoming increasingly strategic,” the Uber Freight report, released June 6, said. imposed a 25% tariff on Mexican steel and aluminum exports, deteriorating investor confidence, and disrupting key manufacturing supply chains. In parallel, the U.S.A.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 1, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 2, 2025

For supply chain employers, particularly those managing large, distributed workforces or frontline operations, understanding this shifting landscape is essential to staying compliant, minimizing risk and planning for the future. More than 30 internal memoranda have been rescinded, and enforcement direction may continue to shift.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 31, 2025

has been negotiating a powerful role for itself as a condition to join the group, Bloomberg News reported. CK Hutchison said this week that it may invite an unnamed “major strategic investor” from China to join the consortium, a move that’s aimed at appeasing China. State-owned China Cosco Shipping Corp.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

Read More: DHL Express Canada Workers on Strike Following Lockout The stalled negotiations have been exacerbated by a new federal law barring replacement workers from filling the role of federally regulated employees who are on strike or are locked out.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 27, 2025

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Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

was negotiating a powerful role for itself as a condition to join the consortium, Bloomberg News reported last week. The renewed optimism is largely due to China Cosco’s interest in playing a role in the buying consortium, alongside BlackRock and Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte’s Terminal Investment Ltd.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 15, 2025

Bessent’s perceived confidence in stable relations with Beijing also reinforces his role as a counterweight to the China hawks advising Trump. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Goods to Win Tariff Deal More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 3, 2025

Executives have urged the administration to instead turn its attention to the middlemen in the pharmaceutical supply chain, who negotiate prices on behalf of employers. Drug Price Cuts, Sending Pharma Shares Slumping Trump Demands U.S. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 16, 2024

It must be deeply embedded with the business and with the supply base. It’s a customer-focused and intensely target based role. You could quite reasonably argue that Procurement is the other side of the coin to Sales when it comes to how we manage the supply base. It must be innovative, edgy, pushing boundaries.

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