For years, thieves throughout New Zealand have crept through avocado orchards with near impunity, selling their stolen goods to roadside fruit stands and unscrupulous artisanal toast dealers.
An employee fired from Tesla Inc’s Nevada battery factory filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing the company of spying on employees and failing to act after learning that a Mexican cartel may be dealing drugs inside the plant, his attorney said on Thursday.
In this report, you’ll learn about new technology that is revolutionizing the industry, the benefits it has for your fleet, and how you can take advantage of it.
Discover how advanced vehicle technology can:
• Ensure compliance with changing regulation
• Give you real-time visibility into you fleet
• Improve driver safety and insights
• Lower your carbon footprint
• Drive fleet intelligence through predictive analytics
Customer expectations are continuously evolving, and every business wants to innovate and differentiate itself to grow revenue without compromising margins. A customer experience-driven supply chain is an absolute necessity toward achieving these seemingly divergent goals.
Some of the biggest tech giants Monday agreed to build health care products that use a common set of standards in order to make it easier to share medical data across hospitals. What’s more, these are open standards and specifications aimed at encouraging “frictionless data exchange.”
Recent years of lackluster performance and the most significant profit drop in six years has fast-fashion retailer H&M looking for a road to profitability.
Here is how the companies Bloomberg is following through the Brexit process describe the divorce: “omnishambles,” “farcical” and “a joke.” And that includes the company whose chief favors leaving the European Union.
A shipment of soya beans worth more than $20m (£15.5m) has been bobbing aimlessly in the Pacific Ocean for a month, a casualty of the escalating trade war between China and the U.S.
Shipping group Maersk said on Thursday 94 companies and organizations have so far joined a blockchain platform developed with IBM aimed at boosting efficiency and limiting the enormous paper trail of global container shipping.
Logistics sector hiring kept up a brisk pace in July as delivery firms, trucking companies and warehouse operators added 15,600 jobs ahead of the peak shipping season.
A week after Uber shut down its autonomous truck program a former member of both that effort and Google’s Self-Driving Car project is resurfacing with a robot semi-truck startup that’s hitting the road with $40m in Series A funding.
Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:00 to Thursday, December 27, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Join us to learn how using artificial intelligence (AI) applications can transform supply chains, boosting top-line and bottom-line value. We’ll share how to best leverage AI capabilities and give examples of how humans and AI working together can create optimized and more responsive supply chains.
In this report, you’ll learn about new technology that is revolutionizing the industry, the benefits it has for your fleet, and how you can take advantage of it.
Discover how advanced vehicle technology can:
• Ensure compliance with changing regulation
• Give you real-time visibility into you fleet
• Improve driver safety and insights
• Lower your carbon footprint
• Drive fleet intelligence through predictive analytics
Modern technology has empowered electronics manufacturing and supply chains to span the globe, and yet, many organizations still cling to outdated forms of both sourcing and procurement. Why is that? There’s some level of comfort in the old way of doing things, but even these methods come at their own costs.
Today’s top companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple have taught consumers to hold digital experiences in the highest regard. This has led manufacturers to digitize as many elements of their supply chain as possible. Not only does this increase the ease of procurement and sourcing, but it also positions your company as a leader in the growing digital age of manufacturing.
The first step in your digital transformation should be to embrace modern technology. Digital procurement, or E-Procurement, is one such way to bring your outdated processes into the modern era.
By now most forward looking corporate business leaders, IT leaders and business consulting companies realize that the 3rd generation of blockchain networks fundamentally works and sooner or later is going to impact every market and corporation in one or more important dimensions. Scaling issues are quickly disappearing and transaction costs on many networks are plummeting. The time for experiments to validate capability is coming to an end. More and more companies are making bold statements around their vision for utilizing block chains, many large iconic cloud companies are in stealth mode buying Blockchain companies and pouring money into their own Blockchain research.
SupplyChainBrain will once again feature its annual list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners in the October 2018 issue. Click here to nominate any of your partners.
