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The Most Important Supply Chain Investments Begin Behind Closed Doors

In today's increasingly complex investment landscape, some of the most significant conversations about infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, logistics and supply chain resilience happen behind closed doors.

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An AI Playbook for Companies Transforming Supply Chains

It’s important to understand that companies can have enormous amounts of information without having data that is clean, connected or useful.

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Million Dollar Baby Planning Meets Supply Chain Agility: A Conversation with Julia Bedanova

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Supply chain planning has never mattered more. As organizations navigate continued volatility, shifting customer expectations, economic uncertainty, and the rapid acceleration of AI and new technology, the ability to plan, adapt, and make smarter decisions will be a critical competitive advantage over the next 12 months.

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Understanding the Great Supply Chain Reset

Technology is enabling businesses to model different scenarios, respond faster to disruption and make more informed decisions.

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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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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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Why You Need to Add Orchestration to Logistics Execution

The conversation around 4PL should be less about terminology and more about architecture.

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Watch: Supply Chain Planning Talent

The role of the supply chain planner isn’t going away, no matter the advancements in technology, says Cristina Carvallo, senior director at Gartner. But the position does require adopting new skills.

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The August Queue: Why an Order Placed Now Meets a Different Factory

Suppliers are managing a hard constraint. Plan around it and you get the same factory in September that you got in June.

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Shift Left Planning: Why Many Plans Fail to Execute - and How to Fix It

Despite major investments in AI, real-time visibility, and faster planning tools, many supply chain organizations continue to battle constant firefighting, expediting, and poor plan adherence. Why do these challenges persist? The answer may be that speed alone isn't enough.

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