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2 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
How are companies making use of their data for managing supply chains and logistics? Simon Vandemoortele, chief executive officer with GeoPostcodes, details the challenges and opportunities that they face.
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2 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Connor Lokar, senior forecaster at ITR Economics, weighs the prospects of a recession resulting from the Trump administration’s latest round of tariffs — as well as the probability of a Great Depression occurring in the next decade. Will the new Trump tariffs bring on a recession? “Not at this point,” Lokar says. While emphasizing the potential damage from an escalating trade war, he believes “we’re OK” at the moment.
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2 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Mark Richardson, chief executive officer of Ocado Intelligent Automation, visualizes the future of warehouse automation — including the possibility of fully autonomous "dark" warehouses. In the warehouse automation sector, Richardson sees a continued trend toward scarcity of labor, and higher costs for those who are available to work.
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2 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Artificial intelligence is the hot technology topic of the moment, especially as it relates to the supply chain. But is it really translating into tangible benefits right now? Sriram Nagaswamy, executive vice president technology with FourKites, offers his view. Shippers face a couple of big challenges when seeking to implement AI in supply chains, Nagaswamy says.
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2 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
President Trump’s seesawing policy on the implementation of tariffs fails to account for the many complexities of international trade, according to three industry analysts. Jamieson Greer, Trump’s choice for U.S. Trade Representative, might be “in the weeds of understanding” the dynamics and trade and tariffs, said Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies.
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3 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Home » Podcast | An NBA Legend Shoots for ‘Coffee With a Cause’THE SUPPLYCHAINBRAIN PODCAST Dikembe Mutombo was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and came to the U.S. — despite an initial ambition to attend medical school — to play basketball in the NBA. The 7’2” All-Star center distinguished himself as both player and personality over 18 seasons, entering the Hall of Fame in 2015. But his interests extended well beyond the sport.
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3 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Henri Capin-Gally, partner in the law firm of White & Case, discusses how nearshoring, disruption and digitization are impacting supply chain mergers and acquisitions. Continuing interest in nearshoring of manufacturing from China to Mexico is helping to drive interest in M&A deals among supply chain providers, Capin-Gally says.
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3 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Kirk Serjeantson, chief information officer with American Expediting, and Arthur Axelrad, chief executive officer and co-founder of Dispatch Science, relate how the shipper consolidated multiple transportation management systems. American Expediting is a provider of final-mile logistics for the healthcare industry in the U.S. and Canada, delivering such items as organs, transplants and life-saving medications.
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3 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Anyone looking to assess the impact of President Trump’s immigration policy on U.S. agriculture might do well to study the labor shortage that hit farms in the United Kingdom with the arrival of COVID-19. In 2020, due to a combination of pandemic lockdowns and Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, the country found itself without enough workers to pick crops.
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4 weeks ago | 
supplychainbrain.com | Robert J. Bowman
Is the demise of physical retailing coming faster than anyone might expect? Without a doubt, e-commerce has taken a sizable chunk out of traditional retail sales over recent years. Currently its share of the total stands at just over 16% in the U.S., but the number is growing. And at least one analyst says physical retailing will be effectively dead much sooner than we might think. The reason is technology, according to Jack Freeman, partner with PeakSpan Capital LLC, and our guest on this episode.
