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Challenge: The organization wanted to elevate its supply chain planning capabilities to support synchronization, end-to-end supply chain planning, visibility and decision-making.

New technology from Alibaba Cloud aims to predict when and where large airfreight shipments will be sent each day for a range of forwarders and shippers. Alibaba says its new artificial intelligence (AI) platform, called PAI 2.0, will provide businesses and organizations machine-learning capabilities.

Thanks to the farm-to-table movement and the work of a generation of chefs, cooks, farmers and other producers, we've opened the window to the source of much of our food. We often know the farm where the turnips and lettuces on our plate come from, the fields where the cows or sheep grazed, even the names of the chickens that laid our eggs. But this kind of traceability has been very slow to come to the seafood industry, which is notorious for being secretive and often fraudulent. A small group of fishermen and chefs has been working to fix this through their Dock to Dish program, adopting the methods and principles of the land movement and CSAs, or Community Supported Agriculture, to bring that kind of transparency to the sea.

Kewill and LeanLogistics have announced their rebranding as BluJay Solutions, and, in conjunction, have unveiled the BluJay Global Trade Network - a model that goes beyond automation to help organizations harness the full power of the global supply chain ecosystem.