In today’s CPG environment, planners are expected to manage far more than demand and supply balancing. 

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) sits at the center of modern supply chain and logistics businesses, as a critical tool that aligns demand, supply and financial goals into a single, disciplined process, and turns strategy into action.

As workforce dynamics evolve and technology advances, supply chains are under increasing pressure from manufacturers, retailers and their customers to do more with less.

Retailers could get whiplash trying to keep up with youthful consumer spending habits, but they better get good at it as the upcoming generations emerge as mature consumers.

President Donald Trump’s strategy of reducing the U.S.-China trade deficit is bringing down the volume of both imports and exports.

According to multiple academic and think tank studies, neither will bring dramatic improvements, and they may instead harm the economy.

Now, every package entering the U.S. comes with a need to submit an exact description of every component, including a 10-digit HTS code. Shippers and carriers are struggling to adjust.

Return rates have more than doubled since 2019, and will reach 17% this holiday season.

Mexico’s freshly approved range of tariffs on non-U.S. trading partners could be interpreted as a signal to the U.S. that it is sympathetic to Trump’s stance on trade.

The language crackdown is part of a broader Trump administration campaign that’s upending the trucking industry, a critical pillar of the U.S. economy.