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How Supply Chains Can Survive the Next Unexpected Demand Surge

May 29, 2026
William L. Bain, SCB Contributor

With active caching, inventory updates complete more quickly and efficiently, so that they can accurately reflect availability across locations in real time.


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Watch: Orchestration: The Most Critical Decision in Warehouse Automation

May 26, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Most warehouses today are operating systems provided by multiple vendors. Akash Gupta, CEO of GreyOrange, talks about the need for orchestration of all those applications.


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How Logistics Teams Are Reducing Billing Errors and Protecting Margins

May 20, 2026
Robin Beetge, SCB Contributor

By embracing automation and moving away from manual data entry, logistics teams can transform billing from a cost center into a competitive advantage.


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Agentic AI and the $706B Returns Dilemma

May 15, 2026
Vishal Patel, SCB Contributor

Today, dashboards flag costly return rates, suspicious refund activity, or locations with abnormal behaviors. The insights are helpful, but typically arrive after the fact.


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Tariff-Adjusted Landed Cost as the New Sourcing Metric

May 13, 2026
Fotis Konstantinidis, SCB Contributor

The lowest-unit-cost era in sourcing is over, because unit cost alone is no longer sufficient to make a good decision.


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Gartner: Why Supply Chains Aren't Ready for an AI Overhaul

May 7, 2026
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Just 17% of CSCO's said that they're using AI to pursue "transformational" redesigns to workflows, while 83% are focusing on using the technology for smaller changes.


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Watch: Seeking Visibility: A New Pharmacy Survey From Tecsys

May 5, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Tecsys's new pharmacy survey unveils a serious lack of supply chain visibility in an industry that needs it more than ever. Guy Courtin, vice president industry and global alliances, explains.


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Why More Supply Chain Data Has Not Made Decisions Easier

April 13, 2026
Chad Stecker, SCB Contributor

Without clean, connected, decision-ready data, supply chain leaders risk drowning in information while missing the signals that matter most.


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What’s Stopping Food Supply Chains From Reporting Their Carbon-Emissions Data?

April 13, 2026
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

In distributed, highly complex food supply chains, sustainability and compliance all start with getting the right information.


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AI Doesn’t Know What Your Planners Know

April 6, 2026
Mike Romeri, SCB Contributor

The 95% failure rate of AI pilots that MIT's NANDA research documented in 2025 is a contextual knowledge problem.


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Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions for big data, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) and their impact on supply chain management. Big data describes the large volume of data that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis and can be analyzed for strategic business insights. IoT is the means that collects and sends data from a range of “things” — anything from watches to fridges to cars — that are connected to the internet with sensors or computer chips. Learn how companies around the world are using big data, blockchain and IoT for supply chain optimization and competitive advantage.

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