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Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.
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You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.
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The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing’s critical metals.
China's low rights model is no longer a domestic labor issue but a systemic challenge to global labor standards, supply chain governance and fair market competition.
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America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
What began as a convenience rule in the 1930s grew into a key component of global ecommerce.
Box demand touches nearly every industry, from flat-screen TVs to packaged food, all of which see sales fluctuate based on how flush shoppers feel.
See North America's busiest freight trade hubs in 2024 and rail's role in moving over 54M containers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile colossus that could offer seamless service from coast to coast, bypassing longtime interchange choke points in Chicago and at gateways along the Mississippi River. The two railroads confirmed today that they are in advanced merger discussions. The talks, they said, may not result
Glass cloth maker Nittobo is latest example country's overlooked role in supply chain
As retailers slow down orders for foreign goods because of tariffs, companies that recirculate overstocked or returned items may help fill the gap.
VMI (vendor managed inventory) is the process where the supplier manages the customer's inventory so that the customer has the "right" item in the "right" place at the "right" time to ensure high service levels, efficient and productive operations, and the least amount of inventory tied up unnecessarily.
The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical
Slopsquatting is a new supply chain threat where AI-assisted code generators recommend hallucinated packages that attackers register and weaponize.
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Industry leaders advance complex decision-making and supply chain optimization with NVIDIA accelerated computing and cuOpt software.
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Hey guys, welcome back to my R-tips newsletter. Supply chain management is essential in making sure that your company’s business runs smoothly. One of the key elements is managing inventory efficiently. Today, I’m going to show you how to estimate inve...
Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few years’ exploration of the industry. I spoke to multiple airship manufacturers under NDA. I traded ideas with other cargo airship enthusiasts.
Millions of the wooden pallets go missing every month, creating headaches for suppliers and hiccups in the supply chain. Finding them takes some serious shoe leather.
Transporting Tools Isn’t Easy
As deep-pocketed companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart invest in and experiment with drone delivery, a phenomenon reflective of this modern era has
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Cold storage warehouses are essential to America’s food system. In "Frostbite," Nicola Twilley tries out a shift alongside the Americold workers who form one link in our vast cold chain.
Nantian Electronics Co Limited provide complete and cost effective sourcing solution to OEMs, CEMs, distributors, the needs of manufacturers and other companies.
The semiconductor industry is set to see a record fab capacity with 17 new lines in 2025 according to Knometa Research.
With subsidies and a $6 billion acquisition, Tokyo wants to make its companies indispensable in the global supply chain.
The port halted activity at marine and inland terminals until Tuesday afternoon as it worked to resolve the disruption.
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Lenovo, the firm emerging as a driving force behind AI computing, has expressed tremendous optimism about AMD's Instinct MI300X accelerator.
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Wine transport is as old as the craft itself, but as the business grows globally wine shipping companies face many challenges. Join us as we uncork the world of liquid logistics and wine shipping services.
Walmart is the largest company in the world. Its elite, well-compensated trucking fleet is part of the reason why.
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Disruptions have become a way of life for manufacturers. But the production and inventory planning process that many companies, especially SMEs, use are not capable of handling the uncertainty. A new inexpensive method that was developed in research involving two companies can. It doesn’t have to be automated but can be.
Explore how Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) facilitates modern supply chain management.
When it comes to buying food, sight has usurped all other senses. What are the consequences of relegating smell, taste, and touch to the sidelines?
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
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Let's take a closer look at how nonprofit FORGE helps founders manufacture on the other side of town instead of the other side of the world.
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How can we tell if the clothes in our wardrobes really are what they claim to be?
Learn how Bastian Solutions helped one retailer turn returns from a struggle to a reverse logistics advantage.
Ronzini says it didn’t want to halt sales of its star-shaped “pastina.” So why did it?
The answer to a simple question of why do consumer products manufacturers not use retail data in the management of the supply chain?
A rail strike was averted on the same week Tesla delivered its first semitruck to PepsiCo.
Entire forests and enormous factories running 24/7 can barely keep up with demand. This is how the cardboard economy works.
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Even in a recession, businesses can revolutionize logistics with AI and ML, allowing them to optimize and enhance customer satisfaction.
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The Flexport CEO on why it takes so long for your package to arrive.
Automating a bill of landing is like automating any other process in your system. It will save you money and time.
“Cha Bu Duo” illustrates the difference in the way Chinese manufacturers and their western clients view product quality, says a China sourcing agent.
Understand how linear programming can be the most powerful tool for a supply chain continuous improvement engineer
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Enormous container ships ferry goods all over the world, but when one of them gets into trouble – as happened with the Ever Given and Ever Forward recently – how can they be saved?
Megaships are helping cause our current supply chain chaos. Big container boats have hampered competition and clogged up ports.
Local couriers are making online delivery possible in French Polynesia's 118 atolls and islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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The Inventory Allocation Perspection
Ordering clothes from Chinese fast-fashion brands like Shein is easy. Sending them back is a lot more complicated
Shipping containers, explained by a historian.
The industry is at its strongest since the advent of the CD, so why has it become near-impossible to get music pressed onto wax?
Ikea and Crate and Barrel are plagued by shortages. These people are filling the void.
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
SAP IBP offers powerful tools for business planning to replace SAP APO. Learn how our company can benefit from SAP Integrated Business Planning.
The long read: Amid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic level
The fulfillment center in Tijuana is a symbol of how the pandemic has changed the way the world shops.
The story of a decade-plus long journey toward a unified forecasting model.
The company expects to improve its inventory management even further as it overhauls its technology stack with a new ERP and forecasting system.
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From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.
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Panasonic’s acquisition of Blue Yonder is the latest billion-dollar deal marrying a manufacturer with a software firm.
Imagine a business that runs better. “Better” looks like Integrated Business Planning—a harmonious framework in which sales, finance, and supply chain operations combine long-term profit goals and short-term demand planning efforts for a balanced, unified trajectory.
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is a prioritization model used to sequence work for maximum economic benefit. In SAFe, WSJF is estimated as the relative cost of delay divided by the relative job duration.
Instacart crunches petabytes daily to predict what will be on grocery shelves and even how long it will take to find parking
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Nearly three-quarters of retailers consider it a challenge to implement an in-store accept, pick and pack process for online orders, according to a survey of retailers by Forrester.
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Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established
Amazon researchers describe a machine learning system that plans the movements and paths of up to 1,000 mobile warehouse robots.
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Executives insist 2020 is the year Wayfair's logistics investments will show their worth.
Newsweek released their America's Best Business Tools 2019 list, and for this article, we chose to to focus on the best ERP software tools to use.
An online shopping cart and catalog is only the first step in e-commerce retail success. Once the customer buys, you need to get them their wares quickly and efficiently. That's where fulfillment services come in and we take a close look at ten of the top players.
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How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.
Delivery robots will redefine the meaning of every object they transport
We can be certain that Amazon is spending millions to improve and optimize its shipping processes. In this post, I'll describe three strategies to fulfill like Amazon, even if you have a fraction of its scale and infrastructure.
A new metric can help companies pinpoint performance issues on the semiconductor supply chain.
Having the right assortment of shipping boxes in the fulfillment warehouse to pack and ship customer's online orders is an indispensable and integral part of nowadays eCommerce business, as it...
Sometimes even the most-prepared retailers sell out of popular items. How these inventory shortages are communicated on an ecommerce website may impact
Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot. Over $4 billion in venture capital has been invested in AI firms just in the US. But supply chain planning software companies, with their cadre of operations research Ph.Ds who have been modeling complex problems for decades, may be better poised to solve many complex business problems than the hot new Silicon Valley firms.
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