Despite the challenges higher fuel costs bring to industries, few companies have made significant efforts to address the issue. Fortunately, there are ways to mitigate the worst effects of the cost burden.

Maintaining your organization’s dependence on collecting, tracking and sharing supply chain data with Excel is perhaps the biggest threat to agility, resilience, visibility and profitability.

By deploying financial services technology at each stage of the supply chain, companies can speed up access to working capital.

While for some companies the concept of digital twins may be new, others in the manufacturing space have been using them for years now, proving not just their effectiveness, but also their ability to drive innovation in an increasingly competitive economy.

Will the Biden Administration meet its goal for electric vehicle production in the U.S.? Don’t count on it.

Quantum computing has arrived. But is it mature enough to solve brutally complex supply chain problems?

For U.S. importers, the hurdles for proving that their supply chains are free of forced labor are getting higher all the time.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for global supply chains to return to some state of “normal” anytime soon.

Suzanne Offerman, senior marketing manager for Onesource Global Trade at Thomson Reuters, describes the technology needed to avoid forced labor in manufacturing supply chains.

Automation, accuracy and velocity are key to third-party logistics parcel analytics and billing management, says Coby Nilsson, chief executive officer and co-founder of Enveyo.

Mega-mergers and alignment to homecare and virtual care affect the healthcare supply chain greatly, says Eric O'Daffer, vice president analyst for the healthcare supply chain at Gartner.

Achieving supply chain visibility isn't a matter of spending years to acquire a fixed view of suppliers, says Jack Dobson, commercial account lead with Palantir. It's about managing relationships that are in constant flux.