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Navigating the New U.S. Import Tariff Landscape: A Comprehensive Guide for Trade Compliance Professionals

Are sudden U.S. tariffs wreaking havoc on your supply chain? The Trump administration’s sweeping tariff policies have created unprecedented challenges for international trade. With duties affecting over $2 trillion worth of imports and pushing U.S. tariff rates to their highest levels in a century, trade professionals are scrambling to adapt. In the Navigating the New U.S. Import Tariff Landscape White Paper, trade compliance professionals gain clarity, strategy, and control in a volatile trade environment. What you’ll discover inside: A clear picture of today’s tariff landscape Understand how universal and sector-specific duties affect your bottom line. Methods for pinpointing financial risk, step by step Identify impacted products and calculate duty exposure with clarity. How to navigate shifting regulations with confidence Break down Section 301, 232, IEEPA, and more—without the legalese. Smarter ways to reduce costs Explore tactics like tariff engineering and supplier diversification. How it all works in practice Real-world duty […]

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AI Buyer’s Guide: Cutting Through the Clutter

Find the right supply chain AI solutions to drive real ROI With AI technology now mainstream across industries, supply chain leaders face an overwhelming marketplace of options, each claiming to deliver transformation. Our comprehensive buyer’s guide helps you navigate this complex landscape to identify AI technology that delivers measurable business value.

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Command and Control Doesn’t Come from a Tower

Streamlining Global Logistics: The Shift to Modern TMS

Optimize freight costs. Gain end-to-end logistics visibility. Build resilience. Global supply chains are more interconnected—and more challenging—than ever. Shippers, third-party logistics (3PL) providers, beneficial cargo owners (BCOs), and carriers face mounting pressures: rising logistics costs, fluctuating carrier capacity, and an increasing need for real-time visibility. Are your current transportation management practices keeping you moored to the docks? In this white paper, explore how a modern transportation system (TMS) can provide your business with the right tools to combat these challenges, pull up your anchor, and sail out towards calmer seas.

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Embracing the Connected Future: How to Make Your Supply Chain a Strategic Advantage

The connected future is here. Did you know that 90% of supply chains are expected to be autonomous within a decade? Companies can no longer thrive, or survive, with siloed operations, disconnected data, and limited visibility in an unpredictable supply chain landscape. While outside disruptions and intense competition spawn new supply chain challenges left and right, risks also lurk deep within sub-tier ecosystems threatening your supply assurance and compliance. Organizations must harness and embrace their entire supply chain to drive competitive advantage and build resilience – through a connected supply chain. Technology that has the power to pull in, cleanse, analyze, and use data to make informed decisions can future-proof businesses to survive today and thrive tomorrow. Not sure where to start? Jump into this white paper to discover how to: Transform growing supply chain risks into opportunities Embrace the power of connected thinking Take three steps toward a more […]

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Navigating a Digital Transformation for Logistics Service Providers’ Success

Your guide for optimizing global trade management with an integrated TMS solution In today’s dynamic trade and transportation landscape, logistics service providers (LSPs) face unprecedented challenges and opportunities driven by digital innovation and heightened competition. The demand for LSP services is growing and is driven by online shopping, globalization, and trade complexities. Read e2open’s whitepaper to learn how LSPs can stay ahead by integrating a global trade management solution with TMS to speed flows, optimize working capital, and reduce compliance risk when moving products across borders. The strategic driver for an integrated solution is to minimize customs delays and ensure customers’ shipments are on time. Contact e2open to discuss how LSPs can evolve by leveraging digital innovation that embraces technology, fosters strategic partnerships, and prioritizes customer needs.

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A New Approach to Channel Management

Major global trends impact the performance and the way enterprises operate. A business’ channels to market (whether retail or indirect distribution) are not exempt. This whitepaper explores the implications of these megatrends on business in general and their particular effect on operating a channel. More importantly, the paper then investigates and recommends ways in which technology can help respond and adapt.

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Multi-tier Supply and Planning Collaboration: Find Certainty in an Uncertain World

Perhaps no other facet of this industry has dealt with more disruption than supply and planning. Companies are still struggling to manage inventories to fulfill customer needs, and wobbly economies the world over threaten to create further fluctuations in demand. So, what’s the solution? How can companies make their supply chains disruption-proof? In this white paper, we highlight how to address the root of disruption that is buried deep within the complexity of modern supply chains. We also examine how cross-functional integration can help make the supply chain more agile and responsive to changes in demand, supply, or other external factors. Download our white paper to learn more about: Key trends that have led the industry to where it is today Four megatrends that will play a big part in shaping the future of the supply chain as we know it Five benefits of reducing cross-functional siloes by removing barriers […]

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Guide to Optimizing ROI for Real-Time Transportation Visibility

This guide outlines the major pain points related to a lack of supply chain visibility, describes the corresponding benefits ...

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5 Ways Supply Chain Visibility Improves Transportation and Delivery Performance

Supply chain and transportation performance are both very important to manufacturers and retailers. Having ...

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14 Questions to Consider When Selecting a Transportation Visibility Provider

From truck and driver shortages to pandemics, maximum capacities reached at European ports, and increased ...

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Visibility Guide: The Business Value of Accurate and Reliable ETAs

From truck and driver shortages to pandemics, maximum capacities reached at European ports, and increased legal ...

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Achieving High Data Quality to Maximize the ROI of Real-Time Transportation Visibility Solutions

The ability to track an item as it travels throughout the world in real time is becoming more widespread with the proliferation ...

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Moving Forward in 2023 and Beyond

The supply chain seems to be having a moment in the sun. What was once a behind-the-curtain function of global commerce infrastructure was brought to the forefront of global consciousness with the trade wars but moved right into the spotlight when the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered factories, stores, and businesses. Consumers the world over complained about the number of essential products missing from store shelves. Unaware (at the time) that the massive internal complex that supplies factories with parts and components and keeps processing facilities, transporters and haulers, distribution centers, and stores running like a well-oiled machine was enduring one of its biggest crises in history. The pandemic was unique from any other disruption because it was more intense, came on rapidly, and was pervasive.

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World Trade Trends

A new world order for supply chains Prior to the pandemic, supply chains were relatively consistent and predictable. But now, global disruptions are much more common and likely permanent. To stay competitive, brands need to cultivate resilience through building a more connected global supply chain that is in alignment with world trade trends. Understanding a new world order for the supply chain starts with exploring how world trade trends have altered the pandemic-driven regulatory global landscape. With a better understanding of three key world trade trends, your company can strategically prepare by implementing future-proofing technologies. The expansion of regionalization Increasing sanctions and non-tariff measures Ongoing geopolitical conflicts The path forward with global trade management (GTM) technology E2open’s GTM technology can help companies overcome the challenges of world trade trends in three innovative ways: Advanced analytics Machine learning (ML) Fast access to data

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Escalating Tensions in the Taiwan Strait – How To Brace Your Supply Chain for Disruption

As tensions between China and Taiwan continue to rise, many pundits and politicians have predicted a Chinese invasion within the next few years. This paper’s purpose isn’t to predict an invasion, but rather to identify the potential impact to global supply chains and help companies think about and create risk mitigation strategies if such an event were to take place.

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