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There’s still time to register for the October 13 webinar to see our Supplier Risk Intelligence solution in action and learn more. It can help catch supplier vulnerabilities before they affect your bottom line, and is now available through ServiceNow. Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gi_qugZT

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Big news! FedEx Dataworks is now working with Stripe to better help small and medium businesses (SMBs) try to thrive in the global marketplace. For SMBs, it can be challenging to rely on traditional financial models, which is where we come in. Instead of only relying on traditional signs of financial health and growth, this collaboration will use operational indicators like shipment activity and fulfillment performance to better assess business growth and access to financing.    Read the full press release to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gii-9wHH

Staying competitive as a small business can be hard, and tracking the retail environment is important to stay ahead. The August 2026 Retail Momentum Index (RMI) rose +4.6%, signifying growth and a stronger performance for the general U.S. retail environment. The underlying data, however, reveals trends that separate highly competitive businesses from the rest of the market. To stay competitive as the summer ends, business owners should look past top-line sales and adapt to these three key operational realities highlighted by RMI’s latest metrics: 🌐 Keep Inventory Lean: International import volumes dropped -7.1%—marking a second consecutive monthly decline. Some resilient retailers may actively pull back on global replenishment now that summer shopping is coming to an end, choosing to run lean and avoid tying up valuable working capital in excess stock. 🎁 Prepare for the peak season: Domestic logistics volumes saw a slight -3.6% MoM cooldown, reflecting a normalization of shipping activities post-summer. Rather than letting their guard down, highly competitive business owners may consider using this temporary shipping lull to audit their packaging workflows, update their shipping software, and train staff to eliminate fulfillment bottlenecks before the holiday rush. 💡 Protect Your Momentum: On a positive note, retailer payment performance—which tracks cash-flow stress among consumers—rebounded by +5.8%, which signals a more stable operating environment for business owners. The transaction activity index also jumped +15.5%—showing an increase in spending behavior. Together, these indexes indicate that despite operational margin pressure, consumer purchasing and cash-flow for merchants stayed strong in August. By tracking upstream indicators like return pressures and supplier payment trends, you have the opportunity to adjust your inventory, logistics, and cash-flow strategies weeks before your competitors even see the data. Subscribe to the RMI to get this data as soon as it drops. Find the link to subscribe and read the full August report in the comments!

Supply chains are complicated. The choices to manage them seem endless. When evaluating enterprise orchestration and visibility platforms to enable your supply chain, the choices can be overwhelming. There are many options for polished dashboards, slick demos, and well-organized slide decks. But when your operations stall due to siloed supply chains, you need the right solution to make an impact. To separate real, operational platforms from the fluff, here are five question to ask your vendor: 1. Where does your signal originate? Does the platform directly observe physical reality, or does it rely on licensed, third-party status data updates? 2. What does the platform know about my industry on day one? Will you need months of custom consulting to build a data model, or is there a pre-existing semantic ontology? 3. What happens after the alert? Can the platform execute direct corrective APIs back into your legacy systems, or does it just send another email to an already crowded inbox? 4. Is this one platform, or several products sharing a logo? Are the applications built on shared data, logic, and integration layers? 5. Has the vendor proven this at scale? Is the underlying architecture hardened inside complex, massive global networks?

Enterprises do not have a visibility problem anymore. They have an action problem. Was your last supply chain alert an actionable window to save a shipment, or merely a postmortem of a failure that already happened? In his latest article, Tony Kreager explores why third-party data feeds leave enterprises with costly coordination gaps. At FedEx Dataworks, we are closing the latency gap between sensing a disruption and executing an orchestrated response: - Verified Physical Truth: Direct telemetry and sortation velocity straight from the FedEx global physical network. - The Supply Chain Graph: Context that translates millions of signals into instant business decisions and inventory risk modeling. - Sense, Know, Act: Closed-loop execution that automates mitigation across systems while the window to act is still open. Read Tony's full article:

This month, the Retail Momentum Index (RMI), developed through insights from Dataworks and Dun & Bradstreet, flagged the July retail slowdown weeks before the rest of the market caught on. Our upstream indicators caught the story early.   Traditional economic data tells you what already happened. With early visibility from Dataworks logistics data and Dun & Bradstreet business intelligence, businesses can better plan for inventory trends and shifts in consumer demand before the broader market reacts. Which can help you save time, money, and stay ahead of the competition.   Subscribe to the report for early insights and read the full report in the comments.

Exciting news to share: US Army named a FedEx Dataworks-led team, supported by Google Public Sector as its partner under the Army’s Strategic Capital Initiative to help modernize its logistics infrastructure. Our role centers on orchestration and applying our experience in large-scale orchestration to Army materiel management, with an eye toward better demand forecasting and transportation routing. Glad to be part of a mission that matters. More to come as the work develops. #Logistics #SupplyChain #Orchestration #FedExDataworks

What a phenomenal experience for the Dataworks team in Memphis at the FedEx St. Jude Championship last week. We had a strong presence on the ground at one of the most exciting stops on the tour. It was fantastic to spend time with some of the collaborators and innovators helping us push towards what's next for Dataworks. Pictured below, our team had a great time catching up with Alex Zuck, Amber Jaycocks, and Christopher Laws from Dun & Bradstreet, alongside Gwyn Fisher from the Greater Memphis Chamber. The highlight of the weekend belongs to our own Tony Kreager. After an incredible experience playing alongside Scottie Scheffler in Wednesday's Pro-Am, Scottie went on to win it all on Sunday! Huge congratulations on an unforgettable victory.

The June 2026 Retail Momentum Index (RMI) points to accelerating domestic activity, with the overall index climbing +1.6%. While traditional economic metrics often capture a delayed picture of consumer dollars, the RMI reveals a push-and-pull indicator between surging physical distribution and tightening commercial conditions.    Instead of a uniform expansion, the June data exposes a highly active, yet operationally complex, retail environment:    ▸Domestic Logistics Momentum Surges (+17.4%): Surface & Air shipping volumes were the single largest contributor to this month's growth. Physical movement of goods appears strong as domestic fulfillment and shipping networks operate at a high velocity.    ▸Fewer Operational Returns (-13.0%): Return volumes dropping could signal a likely trend, pointing to highly intentional consumer purchasing behavior. It could also provide relief to retailer profit margins.    ▸Slower Commercial Payments (-4.3%): Results indicate that retailers could be experiencing early signs of cash-flow stress. As higher costs, interest rates, and tighter credit take hold, businesses could pay suppliers more slowly to manage working capital. This commercial friction typically surfaces well before actual consumer sales begin to weaken.    ▸Measured Global Inflow (-2.3%): International shipping volumes dipped slightly, which may signal that retailers are maintaining lean, highly targeted cross-border replenishment cycles rather than aggressive global stockpiling.    Link in the comments to read the full report and subscribe to early retail insights!