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Actualidad: The New Geography of Supply Chains: Why Geopolitics Is Reshaping Network Design
For most of the modern supply chain era, companies designed global networks around cost, scale, inventory efficiency, labor availability, and transportation performance. Geopolitical risk was acknowledged, but it usually remained outside the core operating model. Wars, sanctions, trade disputes, and political instability were treated as disruptions to manage rather than permanent conditions around which supply
Actualidad: Consulting Firm: Vanishing Capacity Is What’s Really Causing Trucking Rate Recovery
A LeadCoverage analysis of the 2026 freight market finds the recovery is driven by trucks leaving the road rather than by freight volumes rising.
Actualidad: China Slams U.K.’s Nationalization of British Steel
The decision threatens to strain the relationship between London and Beijing, just as Andy Burnham is set to become the prime minister on July 20.
Actualidad: Five Demand-Forecasting Mistakes Supply Chain Leaders Are Rethinking
For years, supply chain organizations approached demand forecasting by looking backward, with historical sales trends, seasonal cycles and prior purchasing behavior forming the foundation for most planning decisions. But in an environment shaped by geopolitical instability, tariffs and volatile consumer demand, many organizations are realizing that the forecasting models of the past simply can’t keep
Actualidad: If Your Supply Chain Consists of Unlinked Apps, It’s Broken
The companies building supply chain resilience now are creating modular layers above their core infrastructure.
Actualidad: Xeneta: Peak Season for Ocean Freight Started Two Months Early
A bulge in demand was caused by shippers trying to get ahead of increasing bunker fuel prices, ironically causing a spike in freight rates.
Actualidad: How Heineken Scaled Global S&OP Across 40+ Operating Companies with Sunstice
Heineken operates one of the world’s most complex brewing supply chains, producing more than 350 brands across 160 breweries and serving nearly 190 markets. At this scale, planning requires continuous alignment of demand forecasts, production capacity, and inventory flows across dozens of operating companies — a challenge compounded by the historical reliance on locally developed
Actualidad: Why RFID Is Becoming a Strategic Advantage in Supply Chain and Logistics
Supply chains are under increasing pressure to handle higher volumes, tighter delivery expectations, and more complex flows with fewer resources and less tolerance for error. This article explores five key trends shaping the shift from basic operational visibility to measurable business value.
Actualidad: U.S. Treasury Department Takes Aim at Iranian Oil Shipping Network
Any assets sanctioned companies hold under U.S. jurisdiction are now frozen, while U.S. businesses are prohibited from doing business with them.
Actualidad: Reality-based planning in pharma: The key to a high-performing supply chain
Life sciences supply chains are among the most complex in the world. Every day, supply chain leaders must balance shifting demand, constrained supply, and strict regulatory requirements, all while ensuring patients get the medications they need. The margin for error is small, and disconnected, stage-by-stage planning just cannot keep up.