The ongoing disruptions due initially to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic are firmly at the forefront of everyone's mind. It's hardly surprising then that the 'Evergiven Incident' has not only...

IoT is an essential enabler for real time supply chain visibility. High-level data gives users valuable insights into their merchandise's journey, including its geographical location and overall...

As we all know, 2020 is a year like no other, so we asked some of our employees to describe 2020 in one word and share their hopes for 2021. Tap on the words to see what our team has to say!

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Our infographic highlights the benefits and importance of digitizing the supply chain and how users that deploy a supply chain management solution can analyze and act on the data derived from a fully...

The Intelligent Supply Chain 

A significant quantity of global freight transport movement is part of a multimodal transport chain, particularly for port-related containerized transport flows. 

‘That ship has sailed’: an idiom widely used to reference a situation already decided, in the past, and one that almost certainly cannot be stopped or reversed with any success. 

Last week, the Gravity team found a letter written by a CEO struggling with his company's current supply chain processes that asks Santa to help enable better supply chain management capabilities...

The Gravity team has found a letter to Santa! It appears to have been written by a CEO struggling with current supply chain processes. He asks Santa to work magic and find a way for his company to...

Sharing The Harvest

The Power Of Data

According to statistics released by the International Chamber Of Shipping, the international shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of around 90% of world trade, making it a vital...

It's highly likely you have been told you must improve your Purchase Order Management (POM) processes but do you know WHY should you do so, HOW to go about doing so, and perhaps most importantly, WHO...

It's widely appreciated that Big data plays an instrumental role in improving supply chain management and is a player that cannot get ignored. However... What is it? How can you use it? And perhaps...

Global supply chains connect customers with products and services, but sadly, all too often come with a cost to the environment - but it is a cost that can be avoided!

The need to digitize supply chains is a hot topic, and there is no wonder. Those companies that operate a fully digitized and orchestrated supply chain are enjoying dramatic reductions in costs and...

Coordinated Alignment Results In All Round Wins

Gravity's Founder, CEO, and industry thought leader, Graham Parker, gives his perspective about what running a supply chain with real time insights means when Gravity attended the Alcott Global...

LIGHTS - COVID-19 Exposes Truths

It is an essential prerequisite that for a supply chain to operate effectively, complete visibility, traceability, and accountability must be in place. Leveraging the power of data ensures you not...

The U.S. freight rail network gets widely considered as the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world, with the nearly $80-billion freight rail industry covering almost...

The FMCG Industry - In-demand consumer products that often get produced in large quantities and are made available at low cost to meet the needs of high volume sale patterns.

2020 

Are you one of the businesses out there who find themselves asking the question, 'Why do we need a purchase order management (POM) system'? If this is the case, you might think your business is...

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, and this couldn't be more evident now, and during times of emergency, when medical devices and pharma products become a global necessity.  

Supply chains are complex. Lack of synchronization due to disparate systems, limited data sharing, or interconnectivity makes digitization essential.

THE FACTS

What is the real cost behind meeting your customer's needs and expectations?

There is little doubt that supply chains globally are in the midst of an evolution that is reshaping not just how they need to organize and operate, but also how the profession of supply chain...

”As COVID-19 spreads globally, we are seeing increased supply chain disruption, but also changes in consumer spending habits,” commented Sarah Watt, Senior Director Analyst with the Gartner Supply...

THE SCIENCE

Gravity Supply Chain's latest podcast unveils an exciting new enhancement to our shipment tracker and purchase order management (POM) products.

Boom! Like an explosion, it happened... 

The Silk Road created around 200BC spans around 4,000 of complex geographical, physical, and climate zones. The level of need for digital integration has become a much-debated subject centered around...

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs theory proposes that people get motivated by five primary categories of emotional need:

The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and retail outlets globally are alive with the spirit of Christmas. Many shops have been selling Christmas themed goodies for several weeks, and there’s a...

Target recently announced that customers would be able to utilize cashless payment technologies, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay in all of the 1,850 Target stores located across the...

On this edition of the Gravity Supply Chain podcast, we discuss the significant impact of digitization and digital tools on the logistics and freight forwarding industry, with special guest Mark...

Walmart, one of the most recognizable U.S. retail brands, actively invests in technological innovation to improve customer service levels and remain relevant.

The U.K. is facing an unprecedented level of economic and political uncertainty after the government’s Brexit plan was overwhelmingly rejected by parliament last week. In the midst of the crisis, we...

With each passing year, we see an ever-expanding range of devices that connect to the internet. While on-demand apps make services more accessible to consumers, connected devices can bring...

Happy Holidays! The team at Gravity Supply Chain Solutions would like to wish you Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

  The year 2019 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the supply chain industry as several global developments will put significant pressure on supply chains to digitize. Let’s consider three of the...

Check out our short video on how to mitigate the impact of tariffs on your business through digitizing supply chain management. 

We’re in an era where consumer demand is greater than it has ever been, particularly during promotional shopping periods. For instance, American consumers spent a record-breaking $6.2 billion on...

Last year witnessed an unusually large number of devastating natural disasters all across the world, from the multiple hurricanes which have battered South America and the United States, including...

Advanced technologies are gradually occupying even more significant roles in the freight industry, and supply chain management. With the rapid pace of innovation, the sector is bound to look...

We are passionate about our mission to inspire the supply chains of today and tomorrow through technology here at Gravity Supply Chain Solutions. That’s why our recent partnership with Microsoft, one...

One of the highest trending topics in the first part of 2018 was data privacy and protection, with multicountry investigations seeing large organizations under fire for negligence concerning the lack...

2017 was a big year for the logistics industry, from Amazon’s continued expansion, putting pressure on retailers to solve last mile fulfillment challenges, to the continued growth of IoT, bringing us...

In my previous blog post - “Frictionless: The New Supply Chain Competitive Advantage,” I wrote about the problem that Gravity Supply Chain Solutions has set out to solve – helping businesses deliver...

Gravity Supply Chain Solutions hosted its first ever Community Day on Oct. 13, 2017, and it was a significant milestone for us as it’s something that we’d been aspiring to do since the early days of...

In Sept 2017 I had the opportunity to demonstrate Gravity’s supply chain visibility platform at theCargo Club of Australia  during their quarterly business event. The event’s main attendees were...

The modern-day supply chain is global, fragmented, and forces importers/shippers and suppliers to react to their customers’ demands in real-time. Supply chain managers continue to rely on disparate,...

It is interesting to note that most of the logistics companies I speak to admit that their tender writing capabilities can be considerably improved.

Supply Chain collaboration has never been more critical. The commoditization of freight, and the rise of logistics and fulfillment disruptors like Flexport, and Amazon Fulfillment, mean that...

SupplyChainDive recently published an impressive collection of articles that examine the challenges of “Last-Mile Fulfilment.”

In May I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at a Grow with Hubspot event in Hong Kong.

In my last blog for Gravity I wrote about How to Stand Out in a Tender, citing some examples where technology can play its part in achieving this aim.

Our company continues to grow at an incredible speed! We are all extremely busy, yet I still feel like we have only just scratched the surface of how we can provide real time visibility over today’s...

There are few tasks more time-consuming than researching and booking the best sailing route.

What makes a logistics provider stand out in a tender process these days? I find this a fascinating subject when talking to both logistics companies, and buyers of freight.

The Gravity team exhibited and presented at the Supply Chain Innovation Summit 2016 Asia Pacific (SCIS) last year, and I’d like to share with you some of what we learned from our conversations with...

There is so much real time data surrounding us in our daily lives. Wherever we are, and whatever the time, we are enriched with all manner of alerts, messages, tweets, and the likes, instantly...

An editor with Inbound Logistics recently asked me to provide an answer for the magazine’s regular “Good Question” feature: “Has supply chain impatience gotten out of hand?” My answer along with...

We’ve been devoting space in this blog to examining the factors behind the widening 3PL Technology Gap. Now, let’s take a look at how one 3PL will use the Gravity Supply Chain Solution apps to close...

Success in business often comes down to basic arithmetic: excellent global supply chain execution + excellent customer service = beat the competitors. Want proof? Take a look at Gartner’s Annual Top...

Today’s consumers have the ability to purchase what they want whenever, however and wherever, putting them in total control of the market. With mobile and eCommerce on the rise, omnichannel...

Transparency Across The Supply Chain - The Fashion Revolution

The Supply Chain Software Developer Expands Its Global Footprint

Picture this… You’re locked in a room along with a group of developers and cannot leave until you have completed an extensive code writing project for the latest in supply chain technology.  If...

Dynamic Retail Supply Chain Management Solutions

The world economy is worth more than U.S. $70 trillion a year, and the products that we buy and consume daily make up a third of this figure. All these products have one thing in common: a supply...

Retail supply chains have become longer, and more tangled than ever before. The complexity of the datasets, and the management of far-flung suppliers, coupled with high customer expectations around...

After decades of running their supply chains with internal enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, enterprises have seen the shift to a global economy and supply chain — requiring a myriad of...