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Feb 03, 2026

2026 Is the Year AI Has to Show Real Financial Benefit

At this year’s World Economic Forum, AI leaders were out to prove that their investments are paying off. Slogans ...

Jamie Schwartz

Jan 29, 2026 Consumer Packaged Goods

The P&L Impact of Daily Supply Chain Variability

Supply chain organizations spend enormous energy preparing for disruptions. Port strikes. Supplier failures. Natural disasters. I sat through hundreds of ...

Vineet Khanna

Sep 29, 2025

Why Inventory Plans Fail: Bridging Supply Chain Planning and Execution

Supply chain software has always lived in two separate worlds. Planning systems create the strategy. Execution systems carry it out. ...

Himanshu Mehrotra

Nov 05, 2025 Consumer Packaged Goods

How to Manage Q4 Inventory When Every Dollar Counts

The holiday season is here, and supply chain leaders find themselves in a tough spot. Finance expects lean inventory to ...

Josh Jewett

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

Jun 14, 2024 Retail

Optimizing Inventory to Balance Resilience and Cost

This article originally published on Forbes.com In March 2024, the world’s largest international shippers, carriers and freight forwarders convened ...

Matt Elenjickal

Feb 22, 2024 Retail

Facing Dual Challenges, Retailers Must Be Agile to Inventory Challenges This Spring

Retailers and their suppliers are fighting a battle on two fronts. On one side, stubbornly-high interest rates are putting pressure ...

Seth Frederickson

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

Oct 27, 2023 Retail

3 Tips to Help Retailers Be Jolly This Holiday Season

Why an optimized supply chain can be the greatest gift of all Fall 2023 has arrived: vibrant leaves, seasonal lattes and ...

Mark Delaney

Sep 07, 2023 Retail

In a Shifting Market, Can Direct-to-Store Delivery Help Stabilize CPG?

This article originally appeared on mytotalretail.com The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is under pressure. While usually defined by ...

Mark Delaney

Jun 22, 2023 Retail

Unpacking the Future of Convenience Stores

As inflation impacts the economy and consumer wallets tighten, shopping habits are inevitably adjusting. Surprisingly, not all sectors are feeling ...