The year 2025 rewrote the realities of global trade in many ways. Supply chain choke points swelled, tariffs shifted long-standing buyer-supplier relationships, and finance and procurement leaders did their best to maintain business-as-usual in an increasingly atypical trade environment. At the same time, the steady...
Global logistics has become defined by a fundamental paradox: Like many of the world’s critical commercial functions, the sector is caught between two worlds, the analog past and digital future. Global logistics is one of the most operationally sophisticated industries underpinning commerce, coordinating ships, planes, trucks,...
Traditional planning is broken. Forecasts that once held for quarters now expire in days. The supply chain world is waking up to the fact that operational resilience depends not only on physical buffers and logistics flexibility, but on data and predictive analysis. The reason? Operations...
Tariffs are doing more than reshaping trade flows across the global marketplace. They are becoming a stress test for business models, with trade policy and regulatory uncertainty increasingly acting as amplifiers of both advantage and vulnerability. The latest findings in the October 2025 edition of...
Bankrupt auto supplier First Brands Group is seeking to raise new financing backed by receivables invoices, reviving a tool that was once crucial to its operations but also had a hand in its current crisis. The move is being highly scrutinized, as the supplier entered...
Businesses can’t manage what they can’t measure. That simple fact, against today’s backdrop of ongoing tariff turmoil and global trade tensions, has seen supply chain visibility emerge as a critical capability for corporate leadership. However, as many chief financial officers are discovering, simply knowing where...
Supply chain orchestration company Cleo has joined forces with CloneOps.ai, a provider of AI virtual agents. The partnership is designed to bring intelligent voice automation to logistics and transportation companies to improve communication across the supply chain, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 21) news release. “The partnership will focus...
Watch more: Need to Know: Dean Bain, Coupa For decades, the playbook for operational excellence was written in the language of efficiency. Cost per unit, just-in-time delivery and minimal inventory were the markers of a well-run supply chain. The world’s most admired companies built their...
Global companies reportedly expect the impact of tariffs to lessen as more countries negotiate new trade deals with the United States. While companies expect their combined cost of tariffs to total between $21 billion and $22.9 billion this year, they expect it to drop to...