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Conversations with Thought Leaders and Newsmakers in the Supply Chain & Logistics Industry
Jackson Wood, Director of Industry Strategy, Global Trade Intelligence at Descartes, discusses the increase in tariff evasion and customs fr...
All through 2025, companies have been dealing with numerous challenges: cost pressures, regulatory changes, new tariffs, geopolitical uncert...
Since 2017, Descartes has conducted an annual benchmark survey of global transportation professionals to identify the strategies, tactics, a...
This Talking Logistics episode is part of a special series we’re calling “Powering the Breakthrough in Logistics.” Talking Logistics’ host A...
Global trade management has always been a highly complex, risky, and strategic business process, despite it being underappreciated at many c...
For years, outsourcing was the default strategy for transportation management. But the tide is turning. In this episode, we explore why more...
Pando and JBF Consulting published a research report titled, “The State of AI in Logistics 2025” with data and insights gathered from in-dep...
2025 has been a roller coaster ride for supply chain and global trade executives. It’s not just that new tariffs have been implemented on U....
When it comes to working with suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers, most companies still take a “What’s In It for Me?” appr...
We’re still in the first quarter of 2025, but we already have a strong contender for Word of the Year: tariffs. Since inauguration day, tari...
Here we are at the beginning of 2025. What developments and trends will shape the year ahead? Well, if we learned anything from 2020 is that...
In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manuf...
Waste and inefficiencies still exist in many areas of transportation management. One area that is getting a lot of attention, especially in...
If you’ve seen the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you know the following quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around...
2025 is just around the corner and many companies are developing their transportation budgets and strategies for the coming year. Are you go...
So, how resilient is your supply chain? The honest answer for many companies, which they learned the hard way during the Covid pandemic, is...
One of things companies have learned about e-commerce is that everything can go right up to the time a customer clicks the “Buy” button, but...
There is a common thread among many logistics professionals: they almost all fell into this industry — that is, they didn’t study supply cha...
If you’re a transportation executive, you’re always looking for ways to reduce costs, improve service, satisfy customers, and help the busin...
Forced labor has been a problem in supply chain management for a long time. The good news is that over the past few years governments and co...
If you’re on the front lines of transportation management, you know there’s never a dull moment in this industry. Whether you’re navigating...
One of the things many companies learned during the height of the Covid pandemic is that they really didn’t have good visibility across thei...
Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry at Descartes shares insights and advice from a research report published by Descartes titled...
After almost 30 years in the technology field, Fab Brasca recently launched TriSuccess Advisory, which among other things, provides fraction...
Over the past four years, due in large part to the Covid pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion about the importance of risk managemen...
Labor shortages were among the top of supply chain challenges companies faced during the Covid pandemic. In fact, back in January 2022, we h...
When I started as an industry analyst almost 25 years ago, relatively few companies were shipping via parcel. You can say it was a niche mod...
If you’re a distributor, you know that fleet performance has a direct impact on your financial performance, your ability to differentiate yo...
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, many companies are still in the learning phase — that is, they’re trying to understand the technol...
We’ve got horrible roads where I live, lots of bumps and potholes everywhere. Not surprising, I’ve had to replace the shock absorbers on my...
When it comes to freight transportation, certain modes tend to dominate the spotlight. Trucking because it carries the most freight; Ocean b...
For B2B and B2C companies alike, delivery is becoming a competitive differentiator and a key driver of customer experience. How well do you...
The boxer Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Similarly, everyone has a great supply chain...
In June 2023, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufa...
Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. The sad truth, however, is that a lot of capacity...
If you follow the surface transportation market, you know it’s really a collection of markets, including truckload, less-than-truckload, dry...
If you’re a transportation executive, you’ve always been tasked with developing a strategy and execution plan. The difference now is that ma...
For a long time, parcel was the little brother or sister of transportation modes. Then e-commerce came along and now parcel is the fastest g...
Like its sibling Supply Chain Visibility, Supply Chain Control Towers continue to garner a lot of interest and discussion in the industry. A...
Delivery has always been part of the order fulfillment process, but it’s only been in recent years that it has emerged from the shadows, fro...
Benjamin Franklin is often credited with the quote, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” It wouldn’t surprise me if he was talki...
A conversation with Maria Villablanca, Co-Founder & CEO of Future Insights Network, on the “Top of Mind Challenges and Opportunities for Sup...
We all know that there are a lot of dimensions and moving parts to supply chain management, and one area that I don’t think gets enough atte...
I’ve argued over the past few years that we have a trust problem in supply chain management. For example, in a survey we conducted with our...
In September 2022, we surveyed members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives fro...
Supply chain executives, technology companies, and consultants have been talking about supply chain visibility and execution for many years....
If you’re a transportation or logistics professional, you probably already know and follow Mike Regan, Co-Founder and Chief of Relationship...
Looking back at the past two years, one of the big lessons learned is that companies can no longer afford to stand on the sidelines of digit...
As we near the end of 2022, supply chain and logistics executives are busy preparing their strategies, plans, and budgets for the year ahead...
When it comes to procuring freight, rates and capacity almost always takes center stage. This is especially true when freight demand exceeds...