Aftermarket parts distributors face a unique set of fulfillment challenges. SKU counts continue to grow, demand can change without warning, and customers often need parts quickly to restore critical equipment. At the same time, distributors must maintain accuracy, control costs, and operate with limited labor.

The future of sustainability reporting will be less about the volume of information companies disclose, and more about the quality, relevance and business impact of that information.

The systems simulate demand, anticipate shortages and recommend shipping routes after weighing cost, speed and carbon impact.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, Chief Supply Chain Officers face a critical challenge: building leadership teams that can break through functional silos, navigate competing priorities, and align around a shared purpose.

The cargo visibility program will need data-privacy protections to succeed, experts warn.

Supply chains are under constant pressure from disruption, rising costs and increasing service expectations—yet decisions are still made across fragmented systems and functional siloes. Even with heavy investments in digitalization and AI, many organizations remain stuck in reactive execution.

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. 

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.

A survey of 240 enterprise shipping organizations across six industries examined how they see, govern, and decide their shipping economics. Every respondent manages a multi-modal transportation network with substantial parcel operations. The results were clear: shipping has outgrown its operating model.

For years, transportation procurement has largely followed a familiar playbook: Shippers issue an annual request for proposals, carriers submit rates, and those contracts are expected to hold steady until the next bidding cycle. Today, that approach has become much harder to sustain.