Commodities

Fed Raises Rates For First Time Since 2023, Repricing Supply-Chain Capital

For the first time since July 2023, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates. The Federal Open Market Committee... Read more

Why Supply Chain Exceptions Are Becoming The Real Unit Of Work

Autonomous exception management is becoming easier to define by the work it owns than by the breadth of its feature lis... Read more

ALVEST Launches TLD Robotics Following EasyMile Acquisition

TLD Robotics combines EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD’s autonomous vehicle activities into a single business focused on ... Read more

The $850 Billion Returns Problem: Why Reverse Logistics Is Becoming A Margin Engine

Retailers have spent the last decade trying to make the forward supply chain faster. The next margin battle may be goin... Read more

The Next Supply Chain Concentration Risk May Be The AI Model Itself

Supply chains have spent decades trying to eliminate single points of failure. We dual-source critical components. W... Read more

From Systems Of Record To A Logistics Control Layer

The emerging logistics control layer should not be understood as one more application category. Its strategic role is t... Read more

The AI Trade Just Ran Into Its Unit-Economics Problem

The artificial intelligence debate is changing. For several years, the central question was whether AI worked, and then... Read more

Requirements Before Technology: Define The Problem Before Buying The Solution

The fastest way to buy the wrong logistics technology is to begin with the technology. Yet that is still how too many p... Read more

NVIDIA Is Buying The Distribution Layer Of AI

NVIDIA’s agreement to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.9 billion looks, at first, like another large transa... Read more

Bits & Boxes: Where Intelligent Software Meets Physical Fulfillment: The Orchestration Gap

You just deployed a state-of-the-art robotic piece-picker, a fleet of lightning-fast Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), a... Read more

The TMS Is Expanding Beyond Planning: What Defines The Category In 2026

The TMS Is Expanding Beyond Planning: What Defines the Category in 2026 is ultimately a question about category boundar... Read more

The End Of The Transportation-Warehouse Divide

A truck arriving early sounds like a transportation success. It may be the opposite if the receiving dock is occupied, ... Read more

Predictive Fleet Safety: Protecting Drivers And The Bottom Line

Every fleet manager would agree that the primary goal of their fleet safety strategy is the prevention of motor vehicle... Read more

Stop Managing Logistics As A Collection Of Functions

Calling logistics a network is accurate, but it is not sufficient. A network describes connections; it does not explain... Read more

Ubers Restructuring Shows Where AI In Logistics Is Really Going

Uber’s decision to reduce its workforce by about 10% will inevitably be discussed as another large technology-company... Read more