Executive thesis. “Platform” has become one of the least discriminating words in supply-chain technology. A common user interface or product bundle does not prove a common...
Visibility programs begin to fail when every deviation is treated as work. An alert becomes an exception only when context and consequence make the change operationally...
The next meaningful step for AI in logistics is not another chatbot. It is software that can take responsibility for a bounded piece of operational work....
Freight fraud has become one of the most persistent operational problems in transportation, and at the Descartes Innovation Forum, Descartes outlined a series of updates that...
At the Descartes Innovation Forum, Walmart offered an interesting look at how it is thinking about the intersection of marketplace growth, fulfillment, transportation, and seller performance....
For the past several years, much of the discussion around artificial intelligence in supply chain management has focused on capability. Can AI improve a forecast? Can...
Executive thesis. Composable architecture can reduce strategic dependency, but modularity also creates interfaces, identities, events, monitoring requirements, and ownership boundaries. Flexibility without architectural discipline becomes fragility....