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• Fed Raises Rates for First Time Since 2023, Repricing Supply-Chain Capital

  16-09-2026 21:21 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  For the first time since July 2023, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates.The Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday increased its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%–4.00%, reversing the easing cycle that began in 2024. The move was unanimous and reflects renewed concern that inflation remains too high despite continued economic growth.For supply-chain leaders, the significance goes well beyond the headline rate. Higher interest rates increase the cos
  
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• Why Supply Chain Exceptions Are Becoming the Real Unit of Work

  16-09-2026 19:30 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Autonomous exception management is becoming easier to define by the work it owns than by the breadth of its feature list. In 2026, the category still has a recognizable core, but the value increasingly comes from what happens around that core: how operating state is shared, how decisions are coordinated, and how quickly the system can respond when conditions change. Buyers therefore need a definition based on the work the platform is accountable for, not on the longest possible list of capabilit
  
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• ALVEST Launches TLD Robotics Following EasyMile Acquisition

  16-09-2026 18:18 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  TLD Robotics combines EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD’s autonomous vehicle activities into a single business focused on autonomous ground operations for airports and industrial sites.ALVEST has launched TLD Robotics, a new business that brings together EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD’s existing driverless vehicle activities under a single organization.The announcement follows ALVEST’s acquisition of autonomous technology provider EasyMile and was made during GSE Expo Europe.TLD Robot
  
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• The $850 Billion Returns Problem: Why Reverse Logistics Is Becoming a Margin Engine

  16-09-2026 15:42 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Retailers have spent the last decade trying to make the forward supply chain faster.
  The next margin battle may be going the other way.
  The National Retail Federation projected that U.S. retail returns would reach $849.9 billion in 2025. Online return rates were expected to reach 19.3%. That is no longer an edge process hiding behind the loading dock. It is an economic system large enough to influence inventory, labor, transportation, fraud, customer loyalty, working capital, and ultimately marg
  
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• The Next Supply Chain Concentration Risk May Be the AI Model Itself

  16-09-2026 14:36 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Supply chains have spent decades trying to eliminate single points of failure.We dual-source critical components. We qualify alternate carriers. We diversify manufacturing footprints. We build redundant communications paths. We hold strategic inventory when the consequences of interruption justify it. Increasingly, we map sub-tier suppliers because the supplier we cannot see may be the one that shuts the network down.And now, just as artificial intelligence begins moving into the operational cor
  
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• The Hidden Infrastructure of Logistics: Why Cohesion Matters

  16-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Logistics has always depended on infrastructure. Warehouses, ports, transportation networks, roads, inventory systems and increasingly sophisticated software form the visible architecture through which goods move. But some of the most important logistics infrastructure is almost invisible.
  It exists between organizations, systems and decisions. It is the common understanding that allows a warehouse management system to exchange meaningful information with a transportation management system. It i
  
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