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Watch: The Final Mile Challenge: Satisfying the Spoiled Customer

No question about it: E-commerce consumers are spoiled. Raj Patel, senior director of 3PL global industry strategy with Blue Yonder, explains how retailers and third-party logistics providers are meeting demands for rapid delivery of orders, despite the pandemic.

The Final Mile Challenge: Satisfying the Spoiled Customer

With Inflation on the Rise, Retailers Turn to AI to Aid in Pricing Strategy

The return of inflation is placing retailers in a terrible quandary.

A shopper picks an item from a store shelf. Photo: Shutterstock.

Coping With the ‘New Normal’ for Supply Chain Due Diligence

Governments, investors and consumers are demanding increased visibility into every link of the supply chain, to ensure that corporate funds aren’t inadvertently supporting fundamentally unethical behavior.

The Slavery Footprint app, created by Made in a Free World, generates estimates of an individual's reliance on slave labor from data on trafficked humans and labor-abuse rates at manufacturers and suppliers. Photo: Bloomberg.

Podcast | The ABCs of ESG: Are Supply Chains Making Progress?

Can global businesses meet ethical standards for behavior even as they’re struggling to survive?

Three wooden alphabet blocks spell 'ESG,' which stands for environmental, social and governance. Photo: Svetlana Lazhko/ Canva.

Seven Procurement and Supply Chain Technology Trends for 2022

Which market forces will disrupt enterprises with complex supply chains in 2022? Following are seven key predictions.

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How Trucker Protests Shut the Canadian Border and Rocked the Economy

Canadian protests that began by championing the rights of truckers have spread into sprawling, ad-hoc anti-establishment demonstrations across the country — shuttering crucial trade links, confounding police and giving hints that the efforts could spread.

Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest against vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario. Photo: Bloomberg.

New Chip Crisis Means Auto Giants Aren’t in the Clear Yet

While tight supplies of semiconductors are set to ease later this year, the next bottleneck is likely to come from growing demand for analog chips, which are increasingly being used in automobiles as they become electrified and autonomous.

Honda Motor Co. vehicles at an AutoNation car dealership in Fremont, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: How Supply Chains Survived the 2021 Holiday Season

Brian Higgins, principal, supply chain and operations leader with KPMG, offers a post mortem on the recently concluded 2021 holiday retail season.

How Supply Chains Survived the 2021 Holiday Season

Breaking Out the Survival Kit to Cope With Supply Chain Disruption

How long does a crisis have to last before it’s considered the status quo? And when it comes to supply chain disruption, are we there yet?

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L.A. Port Sees Chance to Ease Ship Backlog by Summer Peak

U.S. supply chains have a chance to normalize after retailers replenish inventories next quarter, even if peak summer demand arrives sooner than usual, according to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Lean, ‘Just-in-Time’ Management Didn't Cause the Supply Chain Crisis

There’s nothing in the lean and just-in-time supply chain methodologies that recommend keeping a bare minimum of parts on hand. In fact, they preach the opposite.

A container ship is berthed at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California. Photo: Port of Oakland.

Canadian Bridge Blockade Stretches Fragile Auto Supply Chain

Protestors blocking traffic between the U.S. and Canada to oppose vaccine rules have further stretched an auto supply chain already worn thin by pandemic-related labor shortages and a scarcity of chips.

Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles drive across Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge connects Windsor to Detroit and facilitates over 30% of all Canada-U.S. road trade. Photo: Bloomberg.

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