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May 02, 2025

Beyond Traditional Supplier Portals: Reimagining Supply Chain Collaboration

With mounting financial and operational pressures, the way organizations collaborate with suppliers can make or break supply chain efficiency. We ...

FourKites

Jun 05, 2025

Your Biggest Supply Chain Savings Are Hiding in Your Yard

How yard management systems connect warehouse and transportation for maximum efficiency Picture this: A truck pulls up to your facility. ...

Tyler Nickel

Jun 18, 2025

A Decade in Motion: Reflecting on 10+ Years of Transforming Supply Chains

It’s staggering to consider that FourKites has been helping customers optimize their supply chains for ten years. The company ...

Matt Elenjickal

Aug 28, 2024 Consumer Packaged Goods

Order Visibility Is Critical Amid Low Inventories

This article originally published on logisticsviewpoints.com. For retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the busy shipping season came ...

Matt Elenjickal

Jan 25, 2024 Consumer Packaged Goods

Streamlined Supply Chains: Adapting Fulfillment With Lower Stock Levels

Recent research from Morgan Stanley suggests that inventory restocking may face sustained headwinds as companies respond to persistently high interest ...

FourKites

Sep 28, 2023 Consumer Packaged Goods

Supply Chain Q&A: Uncovering Industry and Tech Trends

In a business environment where the only constant is change, supply chain leaders find themselves at the crossroads of challenge ...

Tyler Nickel

Dec 13, 2022 Consumer Packaged Goods

The Rise of Micro-fulfillment Centers and the Technology Powering Them

Consumer buying habits have shifted significantly in the past three years. Texas Monthly reported that American consumers spent $3.4 billion on ...

Mary Heiser

Jun 06, 2022 Consumer Packaged Goods

Three Supply Chain Concerns, Opportunities Across Industries

We recently hosted our second annual Demo Day, an exclusive event for customers where we share how FourKites’ newest innovations ...

Megan Uithoven

Feb 11, 2022 Consumer Packaged Goods

How Forward-Thinking CPG Companies are Increasing Supply Chain Productivity

Experts were shocked when the demand for in-home consumer packaged goods (CPG) continued to surge after the successful 2021 vaccine rollout, ...

Mary Heiser

Oct 04, 2021 Consumer Packaged Goods

FourKites Order Intelligence Suite: Collaboration and Insight for Every Single Order

Supply chain professionals everywhere increasingly invest in new technologies and processes to manage through an environment of unrelenting supply chain ...

Priya Rajagopalan

Sep 27, 2021 Consumer Packaged Goods

4 steps to make your supply chain climate-resilient

This piece was originally published on Freightwaves. Extreme weather is on the rise, forcing businesses to make the necessary adjustments ...

Sep 22, 2021 Consumer Packaged Goods

Driving Business Value through Customer-Driven Innovation

It’s hard to believe we are already nearing the two-year anniversary of launching the FourKites Community — an online forum ...

Megan Uithoven

Dec 21, 2020 Consumer Packaged Goods

Volumes are booming this holiday season as F&B, CPG and Retail work to keep shelves full

There’s no doubt about it: This is a holiday season like no other. Here at FourKites, we’ve been ...

Nov 23, 2020 Consumer Packaged Goods

Consumers Tighten their Belts, but US Shipping Remains Busy Meeting Demand for Essentials

During a season of reduced overall spending, FourKites platform data indicates that consumers are stocking up on essentials. As you ...

Vivek Vaid

Oct 22, 2020 Consumer Packaged Goods

Employee Spotlight: Dennis Ding on Kraft Heinz & the Secret Sauce Behind a Successful Partnership

At FourKites’ 2020 Visibility Conference, we announced this year’s Golden Kite Award winners. The Golden Kite award was created to ...

Jenny Schoenberger

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