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The AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group North American Catena-X Conference is in full swing, and the Blume Global team is having great conversations around the challenges facing manufacturing supply chains today.   A common theme across many discussions is that the challenge is no longer visibility alone. From supplier risk and part quality issues to tariffs, compliance, and logistics disruption, organizations need to coordinate decisions across the supply chain fast enough to respond effectively.      If you are attending the event, there is still time to stop by Booth #1 and connect with our team to discuss how to better connect supplier, planning, trade, and logistics workflows.   • François d'Ivernois • Jeffrey Olszewski 📍 Booth #1 | AIAG North American Catena-X Conference 📅 May 21 | Detroit   Looking forward to more conversations throughout the day.   #AIAG #CatenaX #Manufacturing #SupplyChain #DigitalTransformation #Automotive

“Without IoT, you assume it’s being unloaded. But with IoT, you know.” That’s the shift happening across intermodal operations today. For years, containers have functioned as passive assets moving through disconnected milestone events. Teams knew when a container arrived or departed from a terminal, but had limited awareness of what was happening in between. Now, #IoT-driven container intelligence is changing that. Railroads, IMCs, drayage operators, and shippers can gain real-time insight into: ✅ Whether a container is loaded or empty ✅ Door open and close activity ✅ Dwell time at customer facilities and yards ✅ Movement, delays, and unexpected exceptions As Chris Haas explains in our session with Progressive Railroading, the real value isn’t the device itself. It’s the faster decisions, earlier intervention, and operational control the data enables. Containers stop being passive assets and become real-time sources of operational intelligence. 👉 Watch the full session to see how leading intermodal operators are using IoT-driven intelligence in practice → https://lnkd.in/gvm3Zrhj #intermodalvisibility #realtimeinsights #containerintelligence #blumeglobal

Manufacturing supply chains are being tested from every direction: supplier disruption, tariff volatility, landed cost pressure, and constant changes across sourcing and logistics. The challenge is not a lack of data. The challenge is responding fast enough. The manufacturers moving faster are connecting decisions across sourcing, trade, logistics, and execution so teams can: • Respond faster to disruptions • Improve sourcing decisions • Reduce landed cost surprises • Increase production readiness • Break down silos across systems Blume Global helps manufacturers connect these decisions across the extended supply chain. If you are attending the AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group North American Catena-X Conference on May 21, stop by Booth #1 and meet: • François d'Ivernois • Jeffrey Olszewski Book a 20-minute meeting: https://lnkd.in/g8kttDnG #AIAG #CatenaX #Manufacturing #SupplyChain #DigitalTransformation

Ocean carriers are operating in a market that has stopped behaving predictably. Geopolitical tensions, tariff-driven demand swings, port congestion, and equipment imbalances are exposing a deeper challenge: fragmented inland execution. When vessels arrive off-schedule, the disruption doesn’t stop at the port gate. Truck bookings misalign. Rail connections are missed. Containers sit idle. Costs escalate. Margins erode. The real battleground for ocean carriers is no longer just at sea. It is inland. In our latest article, we explore why carrier haulage and connected inland orchestration are becoming critical to protecting margins, improving asset utilization, and delivering more reliable door-to-door performance. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/geKXfMCc #oceancarriers #containershipping #carrierhaulage #digitalorchestration #marginprotection

Global trade is not difficult because the rules are complex. It is difficult because the rules change faster than organizations can react. Tariffs, sanctions, and Free Trade Agreements shift constantly. Yet too often, trade decisions remain disconnected from sourcing decisions. That is how companies end up buying the right part at the wrong landed cost. By the time trade risk appears in execution, it is already too late to influence the sourcing decision upstream. That is why Global Trade Management cannot sit in a silo. It needs to connect sourcing, trade, and execution across the extended supply chain. If you are attending the AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group North American Catena-X Conference, meet us at Booth #1 to discuss how Blume Global helps connect sourcing, trade, and execution decisions. • François d'Ivernois • Jeffrey Olszewski 📅 May 21 | Detroit #AIAG #CatenaX #Automotive #GlobalTrade #Tariffs #Manufacturing

“One of the core challenges in intermodal is that visibility is still largely event-based.” -Chris Haas, Blume Global That creates an operational black hole between milestones. Containers may be sitting at yards, waiting on the street, or grounded at customer facilities, but teams often don’t know there’s an issue until the delay has already cascaded across the network. The impact goes beyond visibility: ❌ Missed drayage appointments ❌ Increased dwell and demurrage exposure ❌ Service disruptions and reactive recovery efforts ❌ Manual coordination across multiple stakeholders As Chris Haas explains in our webcast session with Progressive Railroading, the challenge isn’t just the delay itself, it’s about discovering the delay too late to prevent downstream impact. That’s why leading railroads and IMCs are moving beyond milestone updates toward real-time container intelligence that enables earlier intervention, faster coordination, and more proactive operations. 👉 Watch the full session to see how intermodal operators are closing the visibility gap → >https://lnkd.in/gvm3Zrhj #intermodalvisibility #realtimeinsights #containerintelligence #blumeglobal

“Everything was done via email or phone calls.” - John Weber, Director, Matson Logistics. As Matson Logistics scaled its intermodal fleet and expanded its operations, the team recognized the need to move beyond manual coordination and fragmented workflows. As a leading IMC in North America, Matson took a proactive step to modernize how it manages equipment, visibility, and coordination across its network. By combining Blume Global’s Asset Management platform with IoT-enabled container intelligence, Matson built a more connected and data-driven operating model across its intermodal network. This helped strengthen the real-time visibility, coordination, and operational control needed to maintain the superior customer service that ranked them as the number one IMC in 2024 and 2025. Today, their teams can: ✅ Coordinate more effectively across railroads, depots and drayage partners ✅ Streamline reservation workflows and reduce manual effort ✅ Improve forecasting, billing accuracy, and exception management ✅ Provide customers with real-time visibility into their fleet 👉 Read how Matson modernized fleet management with Blume → https://lnkd.in/gMbjKxQ9 #intermodal #digitalsupplychain #assetmanagement #containerfleet #blumeglobal #wisetech

If you manage a manufacturing supply chain today, this may sound familiar: • Supplier capacity keeps shifting • Inventory positions are unclear • Production issues arise unexpectedly • Shipment, customs, and tariff conditions change suddenly • Teams are forced to work across disconnected systems Even simple responses take too long. The challenge is not visibility alone. It is coordination across suppliers, planning, logistics, compliance, and trade workflows. Blume Global helps unify fragmented workflows across the supply chain. If you are attending the AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group North America Catena-X Conference, meet us at Booth #1. Book a 15-minute session with our team: https://lnkd.in/gGa4Cu4b #AIAG #Automotive #SupplyChain #Manufacturing

“If we think about parcel or truckload, you can track something in near real time...But then that same shipment moves intermodal and suddenly visibility drops off between terminals.” That contrast defines the challenge in intermodal today. Containers don’t stop moving, but visibility does. Across terminals, yards, and the street, teams are often operating without continuous awareness of what’s happening in between. At the same time, the pressure is increasing: 🔹 Theft risk is rising 🔹 Billing complexity is growing 🔹 Equipment is already constrained So the real question becomes: How do you improve service without adding more assets? As Chris Haas shared in our session with Progressive Railroading, the answer lies in moving beyond milestone updates to real-time operational intelligence, enabling teams to act earlier, coordinate faster, and keep containers moving. 👉 Watch how intermodal is evolving beyond milestone-based visibility ->https://lnkd.in/gvm3Zrhj

Manufacturing supply chains are not under pressure because demand changes. They are under pressure because every decision now depends on something else. A supplier delay or part issue affects production and service. A tariff change affects sourcing. A port delay affects customer commitments. Most teams can see the disruption. Very few can coordinate fast enough to respond. That is why orchestration is becoming critical across the extended supply chain. With Blume Global, manufacturers can better connect suppliers, planning, trade, and logistics workflows to reduce risk and improve response times. If you are attending the AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group North American Catena-X Conference, meet us at Booth #1: • François d'Ivernois • Jeffrey Olszewski 📅 May 21 | Detroit Prefer to plan ahead? Book a meeting with our team here:https://lnkd.in/gsbvF_ie #AIAG #CatenaX #Manufacturing #SupplyChain