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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 ...

As many readers may know, I took a tour as an analyst from roughly 1998 to 2000, with a company called META Group, out of Stamford, CT. Though little remembered today, at the time META was the second ...

First Sipes notes that many industrial automation markets slowed in 2024 and 2025 as geopolitical uncertainty delayed investment. She adds that project delays weakened demand for ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Track whether planners use new capabilities as intended, reduce manual workarounds, avoid reverting to legacy tools and improve decision effectiveness in their daily planning routines.

This year has brought soaring oil and diesel costs, to over $100 per barrel and more than $6.00 per gallon, respectively, putting pressure on the economy, transportation costs and the price of nearly ...

That is now the number of consecutive months the Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute for Supply Management has been above the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from ...

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 ...

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 ...