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Mr. Gilmore serves as Chief Editor of Supply Chain Digest. He has a 15-year career in the supply chain industry, most recently serving as Sr. Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for RedPrairie.

Logistics companies and retailers are relying on technology to make new hires faster, as well as using gig workers and flexible scheduling to bring on workers as needed,” the ...

Another Look Forward and Back, at an Underdiscussed Topic Gartner Acquisition of AMR Changed Everything Key Attributes across Different Analyst Firms ...

Last week, I took a long overdue look at the supply chain analyst community, centered to start around what may have been the peak of the analyst world in the early 2000s, with by my count at least 10 ...

I SM also says that the overall economy continued in expansion for the 24th consecutive month. The PMI itself tracks closely but not exactly with the overall US economy. A Manufac ...

Treat autonomy as a per-use-case decision rather than scaling every use case to the same level at once. Some processes are ready for AI to act autonomously within guardrails; others should stay at ...

Analyst firm ARC Advisory Group is out with its latest report on Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). While there is a fee for that usually excellent report, there are some interesting comments from ...

It is well understood that people fall back on familiar behaviors, especially during periods of uncertainty and change. And that habit is creating a major obstacle for supply chain leaders trying to ...

Gartner has really been pushing the concept of supply chain autonomy in 2026, arguably kicking things off at its annual Supply Chain Symposium in May, where it was the subject of the conference ...

At the recent Security Analyst Summit 2026 in Bali, cyber security firm Kaspersky shared results from an audit of the warehouse digital ecosystem. To identify possible risks Kaspersky Security ...

According to recent blog post by the maritime analysts at Drewry, ocean carrier schedule reliability has fallen to near record lows in recent months, while port congestion has built up. Drewry cites ...