John D. Schulz has been a transportation journalist for more than 20 years, specializing in the trucking industry. John is on ...

Supply chain planning tools are not new. Most organizations today rely on established sys-tems for demand planning, supply ...

March-April 2026 The March/April 2026 issue of Supply Chain Management Review examines how supply chain leaders are managing supplier risk, circular supply chain design, AI-driven ...

APQC recently conducted a survey of 2,500 business leaders to assess organizations’ environmental sustainability strategy, ...

Across the three pillars that keep supply chains moving—people, process, and technology—respondents revealed what we’re ...

AI advanced—but only where structure existed. In 2025, AI delivered measurable value in defined use cases such as document ...

He outlines five practical, low-cost techniques: assume some suppliers will fail and monitor predictive financial stability; streamline contracting to balance legal protection with efficiency; ...

As tariffs, volatility, and compressed launch cycles expose the limits of Tier 1 oversight, procurement leaders are ...

In transportation and logistics, the term integrator describes firms that manage complexity on behalf of others, coordinating transportation, warehousing, procurement, and data across vast networks of ...

Trade wars increase cost, not necessarily disruption. Escalating U.S. trade tensions, EU trade delays, and fragmented global agreements are unlikely to create widespread stockouts. Instead, they raise ...

Corporate climate credibility increasingly hinges on Scope 3 emissions, and yet individual companies have the least direct ...

AI adoption is accelerating across supply chains, but sustainability is lagging. APQC finds only 30% of AI initiatives ...