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Tyson to Shed Three Beef Plants as U.S. Cattle Herds Dwindle

The USDA reported in February that there were an estimated 86.2 million heads of cattle in the U.S. to start the year, marking the lowest level the country has seen in 75 years.

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Idled Dodge Muscle Car Plant May Be Sold, Canada Union Says

Although Stellantis hasn’t provided formal notice of closing the plant, the company has indicated that it’s open to selling it.

The Stellantis Brampton Assembly Plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Photographer: Laura Proctor/Bloomberg

USMCA’s Uncertain Fate Is Challenging North American Automakers

Of all industries doing business across North American borders, none stands to be more affected by a possible end to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement than automotive manufacturers.

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Court Lets Trump Halt Tariff Exemption for Low-Cost Goods

The Justice Department argued that lifting a suspension on tariffs that were already in effect was not the same as ordering new ones.

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Born at the Dock: Plan With Execution Built In

Born at the Dock argues that a supply chain plan is not complete when software approves it; it is complete only when the physical network can execute it and the customer receives the order in full. The whitepaper reframes planning around the dock, where inventory must be found, cases picked, pallets built, shipments staged, trailers loaded legally, carriers dispatched, and destinations prepared to receive.

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Transportation Under Pressure: Planning Through Fuel, Capacity and Regulatory Shocks

Transportation Under Pressure applies the Born at the Dock standard to a transportation market exposed to volatile fuel prices, tightening carrier capacity, regulatory change, labor constraints, and regional disruption. Its central argument is that shippers cannot control the next external shock, but they can reduce the internal exposure that determines whether that shock becomes a manageable cost increase or an operational crisis.

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How Mars uses 4flow’s AI Platform for Logistics Optimization

Supply chains are under constant pressure from disruption, rising costs and increasing service expectations—yet decisions are still made across fragmented systems and functional siloes. Even with heavy investments in digitalization and AI, many organizations remain stuck in reactive execution.

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Orchestrating the End-to-End Supply Chain: Strategic Priority, Practical Reality

As technology, particularly agentic AI, is poised to change everything, the reality of “my supply chain is good enough” has faded. It has been the view of IDC for some years now that a truly end-to-end, orchestrated supply chain should be the ultimate goal to support the speed, agility, and efficiency of the overall business.

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2026 Buyer's Guide to Real-Time Shipment Visibility

The 2026 Buyer's Guide to Real-Time Shipment Visibility from Tive provides a practical framework for evaluating today's leading shipment visibility technologies and selecting the solution that best fits your organization's needs.

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Beyond the Freight Cycle: Six Transportation Realities Every Executive Should Understand in 2026 and Beyond

Beyond the Freight Cycle: Six Transportation Realities Every Executive Should Understand in 2026 and Beyond argues that transportation has evolved from a tactical logistics function into a strategic business capability that directly influences profitability, customer satisfaction, operational resilience, and long-term growth.

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Beyond the RFP: Strategic Resilience Through a Mode-Diverse Capacity Solution

For years, transportation procurement has largely followed a familiar playbook: Shippers issue an annual request for proposals, carriers submit rates, and those contracts are expected to hold steady until the next bidding cycle. Today, that approach has become much harder to sustain.

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BAE Systems to Pay $36M for Breaching U.S. Arms Export Regs

The Department has agreed to suspend $18 million of the penalty for remedial measures to strengthen BAE’s compliance program.

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