Global trade management has always been a highly complex, risky, and strategic business process, despite it being underappreciated at many companies historically. However, if there is one good thing about the tariff wars we’re in at the moment is that global trade management is now in the spotlight, including the role and importance of Global ... Read more

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For years, outsourcing was the default strategy for transportation management. But the tide is turning. In this episode, we explore why more companies are taking control of their transportation operations by bringing them back in-house. What’s driving this shift? How are technology, talent, and AI enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient logistics? And what should ... Read more

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Pando and JBF Consulting published a research report titled, “The State of AI in Logistics 2025” with data and insights gathered from in-depth interviews with senior supply chain and logistics executives across several industries. In this Talking Logistics episode, Abi Manohar, CTO and Co-Founder of Pando.ai, and Mike Mulqueen, Executive Principal for Strategy & Innovation ... Read more

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2025 has been a roller coaster ride for supply chain and global trade executives. It’s not just that new tariffs have been implemented on U.S. imports from virtually every country in the world, it’s that these tariffs keep changing, sometimes within just a few days. All of this back-and-forth change is adding risk and complexity ... Read more

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When it comes to working with suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers, most companies still take a “What’s In It for Me?” approach to business relationships instead of a “What’s In It for We?” approach. The problem is with the mindset and approach each side has traditionally taken, according to Kate Vitasek, faculty member at ... Read more

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We’re still in the first quarter of 2025, but we already have a strong contender for Word of the Year: tariffs. Since inauguration day, tariffs have dominated the headlines, with so many back-and-forth changes happening almost on a daily basis, it’s been difficult for supply chain and global trade professionals to keep up. One of ... Read more

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Here we are at the beginning of 2025. What developments and trends will shape the year ahead? Well, if we learned anything from 2020 is that predicting in January what will happen in the weeks and months ahead is a fool’s errand. All we can say for sure is that 2025 will be unpredictable, risky, ... Read more

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In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they had experienced cargo theft or other types of freight fraud in the past year. Almost half said they had experienced theft or fraud in ... Read more

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Waste and inefficiencies still exist in many areas of transportation management. One area that is getting a lot of attention, especially in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, is transportation procurement. Why has the time come to reimagine and transform transportation procurement? What factors are driving this need? How can technology help make transportation procurement ... Read more

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If you’ve seen the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you know the following quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Nowhere is that truer than in the supply chain and logistics realm, and especially when it comes to technology. With so much ... Read more

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