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A Reflection on Peak Returns Season

As the industry moves into 2025, businesses must refine their reverse logistics strategies to balance customer experience, fraud prevention, and environmental responsibility, ensuring a more efficient and sustainable future for returns management.

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State of Warehousing: Most Agile Warehouses Will be Most Successful

The current and future state of warehousing encompasses the impact of AI and automation, taking consideration of cybersecurity risks, balancing human and tech-driven solutions, and adopting sustainable practices.

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Pros to Know Award: Supply Chain Leaders Over-Deliver in All Facets of Logistics

Every year, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Pros to Know award celebrates the true supply chain professionals to know. Let's meet the winners.

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Warehousing and Fulfillment M&As on the Rise

Looking ahead, easing sector pressures and continued rate cuts will likely revitalize warehousing and fulfillment market M&A activity.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Rafael Vasquez Talks Overcoming Cross-Border Challenges

We talked exclusively with Vasquez about what it takes to deliver successful customer service, strengthening the supply chain customer community and how to overcome cross-border challenges.

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Leveraging AI for Emissions Reporting Data

Ultimately, emissions reporting is no longer just an environmental responsibility. It is a financial and strategic imperative.

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5 Practical Procurement Solutions for Harnessing AI

The key to successful AI implementation lies in a pragmatic approach that combines technological prowess with human expertise. Here's why.

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Oracle Cloud SCM to Help Customers Navigate Tariff and Global Trade Complexity

The new capabilities help automate global supply chains processes, increase order shipment visibility, and enhance supply chain decision-making.

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Pimberly to Advance Digital Product Passport Compliance

With the EU’s digital product passport regulations for clothing and textiles fast approaching, it’s crucial that retailers act now.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Rafael Vasquez Talks Overcoming Cross-Border Challenges

We talked exclusively with Vasquez about what it takes to deliver successful customer service, strengthening the supply chain customer community and how to overcome cross-border challenges.

Pros to Know: Tecsys' Alex Lazzari Talks Importance of Cross-Functional Partnerships

Pros to Know: Apple's Ruchi Dholakia Talks SFTP-Based End-to-End Planning

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Pros to Know: Exiger's Brandon Daniels Talks Offering Proprietary Technologies to Charity Leaders

Pros to Know: Tecsys' Kishore Balasubramanya Talks AI-Powered Demand Planning

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Pros to Know: ParkourSC's Mark Talens Talks Black Box of AI

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Cobots to Power Multi-Function Warehouse Automation

The upgraded Carter platform is designed to transform into a multi-functional solution within the same software-defined platform.

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SICK’s Networked Factory to Unlock Intelligent Automation

The new SIG300 IO-Link Master from SICK is designed for efficient automation tasks.

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Tailored Automation Solutions to Deliver up to 200% ROI in First Year: Study

The Top 5 functions delivering the fastest ROI include onboarding workflows, invoice processing, lead qualification, and SLA monitoring.

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Kinaxis Launches Tariff Response Solution

Kinaxis Tariff Response helps companies simulate tariff exposure, run strategic scenarios, and make data-informed decisions quickly.

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BILL to Unify Procure-to-Pay Workflows

This solution unifies procure-to-pay workflows with AP, AR, spend and expense and insights and forecasting in a single, intuitive platform.

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JLG Expands IoT Platform

The latest enhancements redefine how fleet managers monitor, manage and maintain their equipment.

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Tennant Company Launches Autonomous Cleaning Power for Large, Complex Facilities

The X6 ROVR is a mid-sized autonomous floor scrubber engineered to clean up to 75,000 square feet per cycle.

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DispatchTrack Releases Enhanced Last-Mile Delivery Management Capabilities

The update introduces four new capabilities that address critical challenges: pre-delivery customer engagement, visibility-only interface, store pickup optimization, and customer will-call management.

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Navigating Economic Headwinds: Tariffs and Business Uncertainty in 2025

If the administration ultimately moves forward with the reciprocal tariff rates, they will weigh heavily on the economy’s growth prospects this year.

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Pros to Know: Tecsys' Alex Lazzari Talks Importance of Cross-Functional Partnerships

We talked exclusively with Lazzari about what it takes to implement a WES and the importance of driving communication across cross-functional teams.

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Why Reverse Logistics Needs to Be a Priority in 2025

The retailers showing the strongest financial performance today aren’t necessarily those avoiding returns altogether; they’re treating reverse logistics as a core business function requiring investment, innovation, and constant refinement.

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WorkStep Acquires WorkHound to Further Empower the Frontline Workforce

WorkHound was founded to elevate the frontline experience for the logistics and transportation workforce.

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Zilliant Unveils Precision Pricing Platform

Zilliant's approach is designed for manufacturing and distribution businesses at all pricing maturity levels, from those starting to formalize their pricing processes to sophisticated enterprises optimizing advanced pricing strategies.

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Packsize to Acquire Sparck Technologies; Expands Automated Packaging Solutions

This move combines Packsize’s innovative technology and service model with Sparck’s best-in-class box last and lid and tray solutions.

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Uncertainties in Global Supply Chains Could Derail Freight Market Recovery in 2025

The key industries affected by current and evolving tariff measures include the automotive sector, agriculture and food exports, and metals and manufacturing.

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Manufacturers Must Remain Agile to Achieve Growth in Rapidly Shifting Global Landscape: Aprio Study

This year's study finds that many industrial companies continue to face challenges and have substantial opportunities for improvement across critical functions.

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HCLSoftware Launches API Security Solution

HCL AppScan API Security ensures 100% coverage of the OWASP API Security Top 10 list and provides organizations with numerous capabilities for more robust API security.

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SpotSee Acquires Telatemp, Expands Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Portfolio

A key addition from the acquisition is ColdSnap, Telatemp’s field-armable descending time-over-temperature indicator, widely used in pharmaceutical and laboratory applications.

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Canadian Consumers Expect Tariff Fallout: NielsenIQ Study

Canada consumers are mostly not in favor of tariffs, while only half of U.S. consumers feel the same way.

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Critical Manufacturing, Twinzo Partner to Deliver Real-Time Digital Twin Visualization for Smart Factories

The new connector enables manufacturers to integrate Twinzo’s digital twin platform directly with Critical Manufacturing MES, providing live visualization of manufacturing operations.

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Pros to Know: Apple's Ruchi Dholakia Talks SFTP-Based End-to-End Planning

We talked exclusively with Dholakia about applying machine learning models and advanced analytics and what it takes to implement secure file transfer protocol services.

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3 Ways AI Will Impact the Supply Chain

AI will have a profound impact on the supply chain ecosystem. Here's some key trends to watch in 2025.

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MiO Launches Mobile Inventory and Ordering Platform for Wholesale Teams

MiO offers a fully customizable and ERP-integrated mobile and desktop software system that enables wholesale teams and retail, grocery, and convenience stores to achieve fast mobile and offline ordering.

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Supply Chain Leaders Should Implement Cost-to-Serve Model: Gartner

To clarify true supply chain costs and profitability, chief supply chain officers should adopt a six-step cost-to-serve model, according to Gartner, Inc.