The latest Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, hosted by Tom Raftery, examines a resilience risk that sits much closer to operations than geopolitical…
By The Supply Chainer · Warehousing · Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min readMany supply chain and warehouse operators still think cargo theft starts with a pair of bolt cutters. That image is mostly wrong, and this persistent…
By Chris Brumett, CPO Terminal Industries · Security · Aug 30, 2026
Yard management continues to expose one of the most persistent operational bottlenecks in modern logistics. Despite heavy investments in transportation…
By The Supply Chainer · Podcast · Aug 30, 2026
For small ecommerce businesses, the most consequential supply chain decision often happens before a product is ever listed. Selecting the wrong item or…
By Hannah Kohr · Automation · Aug 30, 2026
As of August 12, 2026, the European Union has a new packaging regime: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, or PPWR, is now directly applicable…
By Aanchal Ghatak · Packaging · Aug 30, 2026
Food waste is often framed as a sustainability problem, but its causes lie deep within operational decision-making. In the latest Resilient Supply Chain…
By The Supply Chainer · Podcast · Aug 26, 2026
Trucks queued at the Port of Wilmington while clerks worked gate transactions by hand. Nothing had happened to a crane, a chassis or a gate reader. An…
By K.R. Samiksha · Ports · Aug 26, 2026
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency detained 16,755 shipments valued at $3.69 billion from June 2022 to July 2025 under…
By Alex Badmington · Tariffs & Taxation · Aug 26, 2026
A shipping container ship can be rerouted around a blocked strait. A truck that can't get through a congested port gate is a harder problem to solve. That…
By Charles Weber · Ports · Aug 25, 2026
A compliance officer at a mid-sized European exporter opens her inbox on August 13 to find a supplier declaration missing a required PFAS test result.…
By K.R. Samiksha · Warehousing · Aug 24, 2026
As LTL carrier networks become more selective and capacity grows harder to secure, logistics providers are discovering that waiting until shipments are…
By Alex Badmington · Transportation · Aug 24, 2026
The shift from 10% Section 122 tariffs to 12.5% Section 301 rates has not triggered the broad landed-cost remodeling many expected. Instead, trade…
By Alex Badmington · Tariffs & Taxation · Aug 24, 2026
The Supply Chainer is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for The Supply Chainer Awards 2026, our year-end program recognizing the most…
By Hannah Kohr · 2026 Awards · Aug 21, 2026
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency completed 71 audits in March 2025 alone, identifying $310 million in lapsed duties and fees,…
By Alex Badmington · Tariffs & Taxation · Aug 21, 2026
The erosion of duty-free thresholds is turning cross-border parcel shipping into a more complex operational problem for e-commerce retailers, particularly…
By K.R. Samiksha · Shipping · Aug 21, 2026
Operational variation across distribution networks continues to erode network agility for large retailers, manufacturers and 3PLs. Even after years of…
By Sophia Hernandez · WMS / YMS · Aug 20, 2026
Warehouse and transportation operators generate more data than ever. Yet many still struggle to turn visibility into consistent execution at enterprise…
By Hannah Kohr · WMS / YMS · Aug 19, 2026
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