Within maritime logistics circles, an effort is underway to update the technology the industry relies on to take advantage of recent advancements in hardware and software technology.

Will the oil majors make the transition to become dominant producers of renewable energy and other climate change technology, or will new entrants supplant them?

TuSimple will focus on perfecting its core autonomous trucking technology on the middle mile while it relies on partners for other aspects of the technology and services required.

I am encouraged to see that President Joe Biden is calling for up to $300 billion of investments by the federal government to begin rebuilding America’s manufacturing sector.

The desire for supply chain software and technology that is tightly integrated and that works in tandem, through platforms and ecosystems, raises the specter of cybersecurity incidents that can very quickly metastasize.

How should executives think about the combination of people and technology as they attempt to solve the problems they encounter daily in their companies’ supply chain operations?

We are on the cusp of a golden age of technology-led innovation in supply chain.

It appears Google and J.B. Hunt envision that their joint effort will become an innovation platform to support the J.B. Hunt 360 marketplace.

“Constantly shifting consumer demand and supply shocks that are felt worldwide regularly throw supply chains out of balance.”

Supply chain visibility consistently rears its head as a vital need.

Good management alone won’t keep a business afloat, but poor management almost ensures failure in the ongoing crisis.

Now is the time to transform the United States’ dominance of information technology into a durable leadership position in innovations that will characterize supply chains the rest of this century.

The public needs to be educated about the quality control processes in place for the manufacture of vaccines.

Ladingo’s growth suggests a segment of the market is not being adequately served by existing solutions.

There is no shortage of opportunities for AI and machine learning to be applied to the solution of big problems in global supply chains.

“Shipamax delivers data entry automation across entire logistics organizations,” says CEO and co-founder Jenna Brown.

A goal for 2021 is for SEDNA Systems to go beyond the automatic organization and routing of email by extracting the valuable business and operational information that is encoded and trapped within the email communications flowing in and out of the companies that are SEDNA’s customers.

The market for reliable, complete data and forecasts about agricultural commodities markets is a large and growing opportunity.

As it becomes necessary to take an increasing number of sources and types of data into account, the case for shifting away from simple spreadsheets and onto more sophisticated platforms will gain strength.

“We automate tasks that our users find tedious or frustrating so that they can focus on what’s interesting.”