What to make of today’s supply-chain environment? The first two stories of this newsletter dig into the state of trucking — executives see prices improving even though volumes still aren’t convincing — as well as the dynamics of retail’s pull-forward over port strike fears. Pardon the pun but there remain lots of moving parts to consider when planning ahead.

Making things trickier still for supply-chain leaders are the difficulties in measuring transformational efforts and getting information to flow more freely through their organizations. Much more on that below, too. We hope you find the reading fruitful.

— Geert De Lombaerde