Supply-chain inefficiencies are having a huge impact the world round. In the UK alone, they cost businesses at least US$1.9 billion annually in lost productivity.

When it comes to running the modern-day factory, there’s a yawning gap between theory and reality.

So many sizes of boxes, but which is the right one for a given shipment? Jack Peck, president and CEO of FastFetch, says artificial intelligence can help to determine ideal box dimensions, and save shippers money in the process. 

Dirk Martin, senior director of transportation planning with Univar Solutions, discusses new developments in technology that are making possible a whole new level of freight tracking, tracing and dynamic routing.

From marketing consultants and supply-chain partners to accountants and IT service providers, organizations today depend on all kinds of third parties for virtually every conceivable business function.

Digital transformation within the supply chain is well underway. But consumer-products companies are lagging many other industries in progressing toward that goal.

When it comes to the deployment of transportation-management technology, it's all about the user experience, says Brad Stewart, president and co-founder of Rockfarm.

Everywhere you turn these days, there’s a blockchain pilot underway for the supply chain. But they’re all missing one crucial element: a single, coherent set of standards.

Supply-chain planners can’t make sense of the chaos of data that’s available to them today, without the aid of artificial intelligence.