The emergence of e-commerce for ordering parts has made the experience as easy as buying a book or toaster on Amazon.com, enabling supply chain managers, product designers, engineers and others to carry out the process quickly and on demand.

It’s getting complicated for investors in semiconductors, with last year’s big chip shortage morphing into an inventory glut for some companies, and others getting caught up in geopolitics.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are game-changing technologies for many industries — especially supply chain and logistics.

A Washington-based think tank has launched an initiative to encourage widespread adoption of standardized data-sharing in the freight sector in order to boost sustainability.

In a transportation and logistics context, location intelligence refers to technologies that aggregate supply chain data and apply machine learning to provide insights into the whereabouts and movements of assets, products and human resources.

Manufacturers of all types know that they need to innovate and bring products to market more quickly. But the stakes are significantly higher when it comes to making complex products.

By design, blockchain technology is meant to be free from interference by banks, companies and governments. But a new report says the decentralized system might not be working as well as many crypto enthusiasts assume.