Gartner’s 2025 Supply Chain Tech Trends

Gartner’s 2025 Supply Chain Tech Trends

This year’s supply chain trends lean heavily on automation, connectivity, and (no surprise) AI. Gartner’s predictions put technologies such as agentic AI, ambient invisible intelligence, and an augmented connected workforce at the top of the list for supply chain leaders looking to optimize operations.  The benefits could bring opportunities to support digital value realization, enhance workforce productivity,…

An Insight Towards the Logistics Trends in 2024

An Insight Towards the Logistics Trends in 2024

The logistics sector follows the lead in process automation, technological innovation, and environmental conservation in a constantly changing terrain. Logistics organizations need to quickly adjust to innovative technologies, cutting-edge procedures, and strategic approaches in order to survive and prosper in this age of intense competition. As logistics technology continues to advance, the sector should anticipate…

How the great supply chain reset is unfolding

How the great supply chain reset is unfolding

Companies are making their supply chains more cost-efficient, resilient and sustainable in an increasingly uncertain world. Over the last couple of decades, many supply chains have become linear global chains, stretched to their limit in pursuit of efficient, mass production with low-cost countries, just-in-time inventory and limited inherent resilience. These models were geared towards growing…

A freight market turnaround in 2024?

A freight market turnaround in 2024?

Tender rejection data in the FreightWaves SONAR data platform shows that the freight market bottomed on May 14. Since then, conditions for carriers have slowly been improving. SONAR’s outbound tender rejection index (OTRI) tracks the balance of supply and demand in trucking by measuring the percentage of truckload freight that is rejected. In trucking, supply…

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Start-up funding in logistics: Adjusting to a new reality

Funding for logistics start-ups tightened in 2022. Where are investors focusing their interest now? After surging in 2021, funding for logistics start-ups slowed substantially in 2022. Among the causes of the slowdown: a more challenging macroeconomic environment coupled with a decline in the growth of e-commerce. Investment in logistics start-ups fell by nearly 50 percent year…

Global Logistics 2023: Supply chains under pressure

Global Logistics 2023: Supply chains under pressure

Summary: Supply chains worldwide will continue to be caught between politics, economics and ecology in the future. Whether there will be more regionalization or nearshoring remains to be seen. The question will linger: Who will win and who will lose in this increasingly tense competition? Then logistics experts discuss the challenges and prospects for global…