Are you wondering how to save money on your parcel and freight expenses in 2024? If so, you’re in luck. Right now, shippers are experiencing a Goldilocks moment, as parcel, trucking, ocean, and air cargo carriers are all navigating through a capacity surplus. So, this...
Today, considering how climate change will impact your supply chains is crucial to your business. The trends are clear. The last nine years have been the hottest ever recorded. Each of the last five decades have been hotter than the previous one.1 Ocean temperatures are rising,...
India is stepping into the global supply chain spotlight, as corporations worldwide seek to boost resilience by diversifying and de-risking their supplier networks. India’s warming relations with Washington, deepening connections with tech-industry leaders, savvy investments in transportation infrastructure, and the country’s remarkable demographic trends have...
Supply chain risks remain surprisingly plentiful, so today, there is a reasonable question to ask yourself: is another supply chain nightmare possible? Three years ago, transportation and supply chain managers were neck-deep in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. The pandemic threw manufacturing and shipping schedules...
Is your supply chain recession resilient? Mixed signals in the U.S. and global economies are keeping many supply chain professionals up at night. In this season of economic uncertainty you can rest easier knowing SSI multimodal freight audits enhance your recession resilience. First of all, with...
Supply chain analytics reporting is a vital resource SSI customers can tap into to gain insights, optimize performance, and save money. In fact, our best-in-class freight audit services yield indispensable data analytics for many of our customers. Those in supply chain management roles as well...
Supply chain managers are swiftly moving to implement reshoring and nearshoring strategies. 88% of U.S.-based small and medium-sized business (SMBs) are reconfiguring supply chains this year in order to use suppliers in the U.S. or Mexico, according to a recent survey by Capterra, a Gartner-owned...
Agile supply chain management has become a strategic and operational priority for many businesses with corporate leaders eager to tame the rampant supply chain disruptions of recent years. Many companies are rethinking their supply chains to increase resiliency and reduce exposure to geopolitical risks. According to...
Global supply chain disruptions will continue to challenge Operations, Logistics, Shipping, and Supply Chain leaders in 2023. That’s a key conclusion from an article in Logistics Management magazine which recently published a Supply Chain Disruptions Study. Remarkably, more than 93% of professionals surveyed agreed that the...
Cost-cutting freight audits from SSI provide you with something positive and certain in 2023: supply chain savings. As we all prepare for the year ahead, perhaps the one sure thing supply chain and operations leaders are certain of is uncertainty will continue to be an...