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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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Cargo Theft Has Evolved Into A Coordinated Commercial Operation

April 2, 2026
Danny Ramon, SCB Contributor

Criminal groups increasingly control the resale pathway themselves, which changes both the economics and the exposure profile.


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The Race to the Bottom in Last-Mile Delivery

April 2, 2026
John Zendejas, SCB Contributor

The race to lower prices could ultimately undermine the very last-mile delivery networks that businesses and consumers have come to depend on.


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Work Design: Closing the Gap Between Humans and Machines

April 1, 2026
Konstantin Brunnbauer, SCB Contributor

Most industrial workflows were built for either humans or machines; not both.


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The Iran Crisis Is Exposing AI’s Supply Chain Blind Spots

April 1, 2026
Gaurav Sharma, SCB Contributor

Compute power may still be sold as a technology story, but underneath it’s behaving much more like a supply chain.


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The Strait of Hormuz: Walking a Tightrope

March 31, 2026
Karin Strom, SCB Contributor

Anyone hoping for an official “open” or “closed” sign at the Strait of Hormuz is going to be disappointed. 


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Avoiding Costly Misdeliveries Through Address-Data Cleansing

March 31, 2026
Barley Laing, SCB Contributor

With so much customer address data of varying quality and in different formats in circulation, it’s time for those in logistics to address the continuing issue of misdeliveries.


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How Diverse Business Models Are Redefining Supply Chains

March 27, 2026
Drew Merrill, SCB Contributor

Diverse business models will continue to challenge traditional operating rules and require supply chains that are proactive, agile and resilient. 


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Geopolitics Shockwaves That Your Supply Chain Can’t Ignore

March 26, 2026
Ted Krantz, SCB Contributor

Currency fragmentation, commodity risk and geopolitical tension are now a connected risk vector. They don’t move sequentially; they amplify each other, 


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The Hidden Cost of Measurement Errors in Logistics Systems

March 26, 2026
Debanshu Sharma, SCB Contributor

 In modern supply chains, what gets measured doesn’t merely get managed — it becomes economically amplified. 


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