Logistics Management

6 days ago | logisticsmgmt.com | Karen Thuermer

The ocean sector has entered turbulent seas once again with major storm clouds looming ahead. Geopolitical tensions ranging from the Red Sea attacks and the war in Ukraine to the U.S. tariffs being used to achieve foreign policy objectives are intensifying global economic instability, shipping disruptions, and cost increases.

6 days ago | logisticsmgmt.com | Karen Thuermer

Since President Trump took office, sweeping import tariffs, temporary pauses, and a reassessment of trade exemptions have added significant uncertainty for global businesses and consumers. The impact is certainly being felt by today’s largest companies that have long-standing trade relationships and supply chains that stretch across multiple countries.

6 days ago | logisticsmgmt.com | Amanda Loudin

In the beginning, labor management meant punching into a time clock. A manager crunched the numbers from a timesheet on a calculator, and from there, processed payroll. Which makes it easy to see how the earliest versions of labor management software (LMS)—emerging in the 1980s—seemed revolutionary. These early versions of LMS still leaned into the time clock, but they also began the first wave of digitation of the process.

1 week ago | logisticsmgmt.com | Jeff Berman

One day after a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that President Trump had misused the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1997, in steps he took to implement tariffs on various consumer and industrial products, including the 10% global tariff on U.S. trading partners, 25% tariffs placed on Canada and Mexico, 30% tariffs on China related to fentanyl and border crisis concerns, the elimination of the de minimis exemption on imports from...

1 week ago | logisticsmgmt.com | Jeff Berman

Eden Prairie, Minn.-based global third-party logistics (3PL) services provider and freight forwarder C.H. Robinson announced today it has rolled out a new offering focused on helping shippers address tariff-related pressures and better control supply chain costs. The company said its new U.S. Tariff Impact Analysis Tool provides shippers with real-time visibility related to how tariffs are impacting the bottom line, down to the SKU level for precise cost analysis.