Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)

Maersk Wants to Take Down Global Food Loss

April 25, 2018

Maersk and Rockstart, a European startup accelerator, have partnered in an initiative called FoodTrack to foster startups with ideas for tackling global food loss.

DHL Reports on A.I.’s Potential Benefits — and Looming Concerns — in Logistics

April 25, 2018

Air Cargo World

DHL and IBM have released a joint report on the development of artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology and its potential to change the logistics industry — noting that, in many ways, A.I. is already making profound changes to the retail environment, not all of which are positive.

Why Home Depot Is Hiring 1,000 I.T. Workers

April 25, 2018

Fortune

Home Depot has a plan to stay relevant in a world where other retailers are being dealt death blows.

Changing Views of Supply-Chain Risk

April 25, 2018

Matt Mills, Director Supply Chain Solutions, Resilinc

Opinion: Aviation Industry May Be Vulnerable to Cyberattack Through Its Global Supply Chain

April 20, 2018

Brian Prentice and Paul Mee, Oliver Wyman, Forbes contributors

In March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a troubling alert: Since the same month two years before, Russian state-sponsored hackers had been infiltrating the nation’s electricity grid and various infrastructure industries, including aviation, collecting information on how the networks were organized and what systems’ controls they had in place.

Bringing Blockchain to the Coffee Cup

April 20, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

Do you take your coffee with cream, sugar or blockchain?

Worldwide IoT Security Spending Will Reach $1.5Bn This Year, Gartner Says

April 18, 2018

Gartner

Internet of things (IoT)-based attacks are already a reality. A recent CEB, now Gartner, survey found that nearly 20 percent of organizations observed at least one IoT-based attack in the past three years. To protect against those threats Gartner, Inc. forecasts that worldwide spending on IoT security will reach $1.5bn in 2018, a 28 percent increase from 2017 spending of $1.2bn.

Yes, These Chickens Are on the Blockchain

April 12, 2018

Bloomberg

Did the chicken you just buy at the supermarket have a nice life, roam free, and eat healthy grains? If you’re the kind of person who cares, Carrefour SA, the big France-based grocery chain, has the bird for you.

‘Cow Fitbits’ and Artificial Intelligence Are Coming to the Dairy Farm. But Some Farmers Aren’t Impressed.

April 11, 2018

The Washington Post

In the two months since Richard Watson strapped 200 remote-control-sized transmitters around his cows’ necks, an artificial-intelligence system named Ida has pinged his phone with helpful alerts: when his cows are chewing the cud, when they’re feeling sick, when they’re ready for insemination.

Proud of Your 90-Percent Operational Efficiency? What About Your End-to-End Supply Chain?

April 10, 2018

Sponsored by Savi Technology

For decades, the logistics industry has hoped technological advances would provide the Holy Grail of total supply chain visibility in a seamless solution, easy to implement and simple to use.

Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions for big data, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) and their impact on supply chain management. Big data describes the large volume of data that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis and can be analyzed for strategic business insights. IoT is the means that collects and sends data from a range of “things” — anything from watches to fridges to cars — that are connected to the internet with sensors or computer chips. Learn how companies around the world are using big data, blockchain and IoT for supply chain optimization and competitive advantage.