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• What Does a Tier 1 Warehouse Management System Include?

  29-07-2024 13:23 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  A Tier 1 WMS Should be Capable of Complex Optimization
  ARC Advisory Group does global market research on the warehouse management system market. We write about trends in this study. I am the author of this year’s study. One trend I believe is imminent is that the market appears to be poised to bifurcate in terms of functionality. There will increasingly be Tier 1 solutions with complex optimization. Low-cost solutions that can be implemented quickly will also be increasingly implemented. H
  
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• Supply Chain and Logistics News January 26th-29th 2026

  30-01-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  In an era defined by rapid technological shifts and increasing environmental volatility, the global supply chain is navigating a complex landscape of transformation. From the immediate logistical challenges posed by severe winter weather to the long-term implications of global water scarcity, businesses are being forced to rethink traditional models of efficiency and resilience. This week’s digest explores how industry leaders like UPS and Schneider Electric are responding to these pressur
  
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• How NACFE Is Clarifying Long-Haul Powertrain Tradeoffs with Fleet Data

  29-01-2026 17:03 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Long-haul trucking sits at the center of the industry’s decarbonization challenge. Multiple powertrain options are now technically viable, but their operational fit varies widely depending on duty cycle, route structure, fueling access, and fleet economics. The result for many fleets is uncertainty rather than clarity.
  NACFE has taken a deliberately empirical approach to this problem by grounding analysis in real-world fleet operations rather than models or projections. Its recent long-hau
  
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• The New Frontier of Operations and Supply Chain: AI, Resilience, and Intelligence

  29-01-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Global supply chains are currently grappling with multiple pressures, including geopolitical instability, rising costs, shifting customer expectations, climate-related disasters, and ongoing disruption. However, the past three years have ushered in a new age of automation, fueled by significant advancements in AI, advanced analytics, and connected intelligence. While supply chain solution providers have a long history of utilizing automation and analytics, the critical question remains: How are
  
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• Amazon Reinforces Lean Operating Model with January Restructuring

  28-01-2026 18:38 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Today, January 28 2026, Amazon announced additional organizational changes that will impact approximately 16,000 corporate roles.
  In its internal communication, Amazon stated that the reductions are part of an effort to strengthen the organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. The company noted that this work began in October, when many teams completed their restructuring, but that some organizations finalized changes only recently, leading to this additiona
  
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• Contribute to Logistics & Supply Chain Research That Actually Gets Used

  28-01-2026 15:48 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Most supply chain research never leaves the PDF.
  It gets downloaded, skimmed, forwarded once, and quietly forgotten.
  At Logistics Viewpoints, we’re deliberately building something different.
  Our research platform is designed to surface practical intelligence—analysis that operators, technologists, and senior leaders can actually use to make decisions about cost, service, resilience, and risk. That only works when research reflects what’s happening in real networks, real impleme
  
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• Graduated Sample Bottle Market Expected to Achieve a Strong 5.4% CAGR, to Reach USD 3,500 Million by 2035

  28-01-2026 09:44 via industrytoday.co.uk
  A graduated sample bottle is a container marked with measurement scales for accurate volume reading. It is commonly used in laboratories, pharmaceuticals, and industrial testing to collect, store, and measure liquid samples.
  
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• Tags Market Forecasted to Reach USD 12.4 Billion By 2035, at an Impressive 5.1% CAGR

  28-01-2026 09:40 via industrytoday.co.uk
  Tags are labels or identifiers attached to products, assets, or packaging to provide information, branding, or tracking. They are widely used in retail, logistics, manufacturing, and inventory management for identification and communication.
  
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• Automotive Tinting Film Market Set to Grow at an Impressive CAGR of 7.1% Through 2035 | USD 10.5 Billion

  28-01-2026 08:24 via industrytoday.co.uk
  Automotive tinting film is a thin laminate applied to vehicle windows to reduce heat, glare, and UV radiation. It improves comfort, enhances privacy, and helps protect vehicle interiors from sun damage.
  
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• GS1’s New RFID Standard Makes Supply Chain Data Web-Native

  27-01-2026 16:20 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  GS1 has released an update to its RFID Tag Data Standard that addresses a long-standing and practical problem in supply chain visibility: how physical items reliably connect to authoritative digital data. The new release, RFID Tag Data Standard (TDS) 2.3, allows RFID tags to carry a web-resolvable domain name alongside an identifier. When scanned, the tag can resolve directly to a URL tied to a specific product, case, pallet, or logistics unit.
  At a technical level, TDS 2.3 introduces new Electr
  
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• Carbon Capture and Sequestration Market Size, Growth Drivers and Forecast 2035 | At a Thriving CAGR of 19.2%

  27-01-2026 10:33 via industrytoday.co.uk
  Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a technology that captures carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources and stores them underground. It helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and supports efforts to combat climate change.
  
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• AI in Transportation: The Next Frontier for Logistics Excellence

  26-01-2026 14:35 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  The logistics sector is entering a new era, where artificial intelligence is emerging as the essential driver for operational excellence. Nowhere is this impact more profound than in transportation, the beating heart of supply chain performance. While technology investments have long connected various systems, it is AI that is finally bridging the remaining gaps—democratizing optimization, slashing costs, and enabling real-time, data-driven decisions that keep goods moving efficiently.
  Why
  
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• Supply Chain and Logistics News January 19th-22nd 2026

  23-01-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  This week’s supply chain and logistics news highlights how geopolitical instability remains the primary risk to global supply chains. The European Union voted to suspend the previously agreed-upon trade pact with the U.S. due to the ongoing campaign to annex Greenland. Canada and China have outlined initial steps toward building a strategic trade partnership, starting with reducing Chinese EV imports and removing tariffs on several Canadian exports. The yogurt company Danone has approved a
  
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• Automatic Identification and Data Capture Market Expected to Hit USD 70.3 Billion by 2035 with a Remarkable 4.9% CAGR

  22-01-2026 10:00 via industrytoday.co.uk
  Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) refers to technologies like barcodes, RFID, biometrics, and QR codes used to collect data quickly and accurately. It reduces manual entry, improves tracking, and enhances efficiency across industries.
  
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• Mexico Electric Two-Wheeler Market Size, Share, Latest Insights and Forecast 2025-2033

  22-01-2026 07:52 via industrytoday.co.uk
  The Mexico electric two-wheeler market size reached USD 623.0 Million in 2024. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach USD 1,654.0 Million by 2033, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 10.6% during 2025-2033.
  
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• Why Sustainability in the Supply Chain Is a Design Problem

  21-01-2026 17:40 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Sustainability discussions in supply chains often center on reporting, targets, and compliance. While those elements matter, they don’t address the underlying issue: sustainability is fundamentally a design problem. It reflects how networks are structured, how decisions are made under pressure, and how resources, energy, and data move through the system.
  Supply chains that are fragile under disruption tend to be fragile environmentally as well. Excess inventory, rushed transportation, and
  
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• Energy in the Supply Chain Is No Longer an Overhead Issue

  21-01-2026 17:29 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Energy has quietly moved from the background of supply chain operations to the foreground. What was once treated as a fixed overhead cost is now a variable that directly shapes network design, risk exposure, and day-to-day performance. Rising prices, grid instability, decarbonization requirements, and geopolitical pressures have made energy a constraint that can no longer be optimized in isolation.
  For supply chain leaders, this shift changes the nature of many decisions. Transportation routing,
  
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• InterSystems Appoints Don Woodlock as President

  20-01-2026 19:49 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  InterSystems Names Don Woodlock as President: What It Means for the Future of Data‑Driven Supply Chains
  InterSystems has announced the appointment of Don Woodlock as its new President, marking a significant leadership transition within the company. Effective immediately, Woodlock will oversee daily operations while longtime Founder and CEO Phillip “Terry” Ragon shifts his focus toward long‑term business and technology strategy.
  Woodlock brings eight years of leadership ex
  
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• What Buyers Actually Mean by “Supply Chain AI” – (And Why Vendors and Buyers Often Miss Each Other)

  20-01-2026 16:16 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  “AI” has become one of the most frequently used terms in supply chain technology discussions. It is also one of the least precisely defined.
  In recent enterprise evaluations, buyers routinely ask for “AI-driven” capabilities. Vendors describe AI as a core differentiator. Deals continue to move forward. Yet when these conversations are examined more closely, particularly later in the buying process, it becomes clear that the term is being used to describe very different th
  
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• Supply Chain and Logistics News January 12th- 15th 2026

  16-01-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Trump Will Not Currently Seek to Place Tariffs on Critical Minerals for Now 
  In a recent policy shift, President Donald Trump has decided to delay the imposition of tariffs on critical minerals such as rare earths, lithium, and cobalt, opting instead to secure these essential materials through international negotiations. Citing a Section 232 national security review that highlighted the United States’ “excessive dependence” on foreign sources—particularly China&mdash
  
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• Johnson & Johnson Commits $4B to New U.S. Drug Manufacturing Under Federal Pricing Agreement

  15-01-2026 18:36 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Johnson & Johnson will invest US$4 billion in new pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the United States, linking expanded domestic production to a pricing and trade agreement with the Donald Trump administration.
  The plan includes a cell therapy manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania and a drug product manufacturing facility in North Carolina. These projects fall within Johnson & Johnson’s previously announced US$55 billion U.S. manufacturing, R&D, and technology investm
  
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• Everstream Analytics Publishes 2026 Risk Report 

  15-01-2026 17:50 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Before exploring the insights of the 2026 Everstream Analytics Risk report, we should first assess the accuracy of last year’s forecasts. The Logistics Viewpoints analyst team previously examined the 2025 report, and analyst Steve Banker shared his analysis, which is available here.
  Top 5 Predicted Risks Impacting Global Supply Chains: 
  5: Crackdown on Forced Labor4: Rare Metals and Minerals on Lockdown3: More Back Doors for Cybercrime2: Geopolitical Instability with Increased Tariff
  
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• The Logistics Viewpoints Articles That Defined 2025

  15-01-2026 15:27 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Every year, a small number of articles break through the daily noise and become reference points. They get shared internally, forwarded to leadership teams, cited in meetings, and bookmarked for later. In 2025, the most-read pieces on Logistics Viewpoints shared a common trait: they focused less on technology as novelty and more on how large, complex organizations are actually reshaping supply chain decision-making under pressure.
  What follows is a look at the most-read articles of the year, and
  
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• Digital Mapping: From Blueprint to Operational Advantage

  15-01-2026 10:50 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  By Ben Smeland, Senior Software Engineer, Lucas Systems
  When I begin engineering discussions with warehouse teams, I usually ask for a map of their facility. Almost every time, I’m handed a CAD drawing. It’s digital. It’s detailed. And for operational analysis, it’s usually the wrong tool.
  CAD drawings are designed to show how a building is constructed, not how work gets done inside it. They’re great for architects and facility planners, but they fall short when the
  
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• Low-Speed Electric Vehicle Market Poised for Significant Growth

  15-01-2026 08:41 via industrytoday.co.uk
  The low speed electric vehicles market has undergone a noteworthy shift as sales of fully electric vehicles have witnessed an upward trend. As consumers prefer environment-friendly alternatives and turn away from diesel-powered cars is anticipated to drive the evolution of the low speed electric vehicle market over the forecast period.
  
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• Alphabet’s Supply Chain Is an Infrastructure Constraint Problem, Not a Logistics One

  13-01-2026 20:42 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  The Supply Chain People Don’t See
  Google’s supply chain is often described as “mostly digital.” That description understates where the real operating risk sits. Alphabet runs a large, capital-intensive physical system built around data centers, servers, networking equipment, and the facilities required to deploy them. Consumer devices and first-party retail exist, but they are not the organizing force. The system is organized around infrastructure capacity and the time re
  
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• Amazon and the Next Phase of Supply Chain Advantage

  12-01-2026 15:38 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Amazon is still widely cited as the supply chain benchmark. That assessment is not wrong, but it is increasingly incomplete. Too many discussions focus on the visible outcomes of Amazon’s network while missing the underlying logic that produces them.
  For years, Amazon’s advantage was explained in terms of speed, scale, and cost efficiency. Those attributes still matter, but they no longer explain why Amazon continues to outperform peers facing similar technologies and capital constr
  
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• Global Supply Chain & Logistics News January 5th – 8th 2026

  09-01-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  From executive leadership shifts to multi-billion dollar energy investments, this week’s supply chain round-up is defined by strategic moves aimed at long-term stability. This roundup covers the appointment of Razat Gaurav as the new CEO of Kinaxis and Bentley Systems’ expansion into AI-driven asset analytics through key acquisitions. We also examine significant policy shifts, including the one-year postponement of furniture tariffs and a $2.7 billion federal investment into the nucl
  
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• How the Thailand-Cambodia Border Conflict Is Creating Ripple Effects Across Global Manufacturing Supply Chains

  07-01-2026 14:32 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  How the Conflict Disrupted Cross-Border Manufacturing and Logistics
  The recent escalation of the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict has disrupted a critical land-based supply chain artery in the Indochina Peninsula. The Poipet–Aranyaprathet border crossing, a key node in the regional land bridge, handles more than 70 percent of land cargo flows between the two countries and serves as a primary connection between Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Port and Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corr
  
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• Venezuela Has Oil. What It Lacks Is a Working Supply Chain

  07-01-2026 12:38 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  Venezuela’s Oil Return Is a Supply Chain Reconstruction Problem, Not a Production Decision
  In an earlier piece, we argued that Venezuela’s oil challenge is fundamentally a supply chain problem. This article examines what that means in operational terms.
  Discussions about Venezuela’s potential return to global oil markets often focus on reserves, production targets, or price implications. From a supply chain perspective, those elements are secondary. The binding constraint is ex
  
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