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....
The New Logistics Advantage — Part 9 of 9 The strategic logistics agenda is expanding. Transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, planning, automation, AI, data, resilience, trade, and market...
Executive thesis. A growing share of supply-chain value is lost in the gap between deciding and doing. Orchestration is emerging as the control layer that coordinates...
Executive thesis. RFID creates little enterprise value when it produces more raw reads. Value appears when physical observations become trusted business events that update operational state....
Infios represents an important trend in supply chain execution software: the gradual movement away from treating warehouse and transportation applications as isolated systems. The company’s heritage...
C.H. Robinson’s planned $5.8 billion acquisition of RXO is more than another consolidation move in the freight brokerage market. It represents a major bet that the...