The Supply Chainer

Battery material recycling is moving from pilot programs to industrial scale as cost reductions and tightening raw material access reshape procurement economics. Manufacturers now face parallel pressure: secure lithium, nickel, and cobalt s...

An invoice arrives without a purchase order. Finance teams scramble to identify the requester. Procurement has no visibility into the purchase. Approval workflows begin after the spending decision has already been made. Across large enterprises, these seemingly small process failures can create significant administrative overhead and delay payment cycles. A new benchmark report from Coupa suggests many organizations may be focusing on the wrong point in the process. While pro

Supply chain visibility has become a board-level issue, but collecting more supplier data does not automatically reduce risk On the latest Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, host Tom Raftery speaks with Justin Dillon, founder and CEO of FRDM, about converting deep-tier visibility into practical, defensible action. Their discussion examines human rights, geopolitical, trade and sustainability risks, and why procurement teams need to move beyond static supplier surveys. The full e

When fleet operators evaluate electric forklifts, chargers, or other industrial electric equipment, the conversation usually starts with technology. Battery performance, charging speed, maintenance requirements, operating costs, and total cost of ownership dominate procurement discussions. Increasingly, however, technology is no longer the factor determining whether an electrification project moves forward. The real differentiator is incentives. A growing network of federal,

A shipment clears manufacturing but stalls at export review. Customs documentation is incomplete. Export-control licensing requirements changed last week, and no one updated the screening checklist. Freight forwarders request additional cer...

A hospital procurement director receives an urgent request for sterile wound dressings following an unexpected surge in emergency admissions. The order arrives within 24 hours, routed automatically through a regional distribution center tha...

A driverless Volvo semi completes its first commercial run on Interstate 35 in Texas. The truck transmits location, speed, and lane position every second. Traffic signals confirm green phases through vehicle-to-infrastructure links. The rou...

The latest roundtable edition of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, hosted by Tom Raftery, examines why better visibility does not automatically produce better operational performance. Raftery is joined by Matt Yearling, CEO of YMX Logistics; Chad Fox, Manager and Delivery Lead at Miebach Consulting; and Kurt Neutgens, CEO and co-founder of Orange EV. The discussion focuses on the gap between seeing what is happening across warehouse, yard and transport operations, and havin

A container vessel slows 200 miles from Singapore. The carrier updates its arrival estimate by six hours. The logistics team receives an automated alert, glances at it, and returns to other work. No one adjusts downstream plans. No one call...

Fleet operators are collecting unprecedented volumes of telematics data, yet many still struggle to convert visibility into operational improvements. GPS tracking, fuel monitoring, maintenance alerts, driver behavior analytics, and route intelligence provide a detailed view of fleet performance. The challenge is no longer access to information. It is deciding what to do with it. As fleets face pressure to improve efficiency while controlling costs, operators are balancing com

A demand forecast shifts overnight. A supplier confirms late delivery. Inventory positioning suddenly misaligns with production schedules across three sites. Planning teams lose hours reconciling data, comparing scenarios, and deciding whic...

A container discharge triggers a cascade of decisions across drayage dispatch, warehouse scheduling, and inventory allocation. Each decision depends on data held in separate carrier portals, terminal operating systems, and spreadsheet track...