Mon.Jan 13, 2025

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The Long, Bumpy Road to Deploying Driverless Trucks at Scale

Talking Logistics

Last week, Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip (SoC). NVIDIAs DRIVE Thor and DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver, an SAE L4 autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.

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Oil Tankers Back Up in Red Sea After Israel Hits Tugs

Supply Chain Brain

While the boats have been out of service for about three weeks, port personnel are slowly bringing tankers into harbor, causing a bottleneck.

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How to contain the damage after a hack, or avoid it entirely

Overdrive Online

In this Overdrive Radio edition, a variety of ways to spot fraud in phishing emails and on fradulent rate cons, and in the very voice on the phone who might purport to be someone you know, or from a company you know.

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How to Build Responsible and Resilient Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Companies need to understand their environmental impact and the risks they face, as well as the collaborative opportunities that mitigating and adapting to such risks presents.

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How to Prepare for Proposed New Tariffs in 2025

The global trade landscape is shifting. If President Trump’s proposed tariffs come into effect, they will impact your logistics in significant ways. Our free guide provides essential insights for consumer brands and manufacturers. It is crucial to understand what these challenges mean for your logistics operations, and more importantly, how to prepare.

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Expand Into New Markets With TMS

Loginext

Transportation management software streamlines logistics, optimizes costs, and ensures regulatory compliance, enabling businesses to expand into new markets and achieve sustainable growth. The post Expand Into New Markets With TMS appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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How Food & Beverage Manufacturers Can Optimize Production with an ERP System

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The food and beverage industry is a dynamic, ever-evolving sector in which manufacturers are continuously seeking ways to optimize production and reduce costs in the face of shifting consumer demand and preferences. With the added challenges of increasingly complex supply chains and evolving regulations, food and beverage manufacturers are grappling with a range of challenges that are unique to their industry.

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China's Exports Surge as Tariff Threats Loom

Supply Chain Brain

Exports from China into the U.S. increased by more than 15% year-over-year in December 2024, while exports into the EU went up by nearly 9%.

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Is it Time for B2B Freight Providers to Learn From B2C?

Logistics Bureau

You know how we often think of shipping as just trucks on the highway? Well, B2B freight is actually much more complex than that. Let me walk you through the key pieces of this logistics puzzle. Transportation Modes in B2B Freight When you’re moving goods between businesses, you’ve got several options in your toolkit. Think of it like choosing the right tool for the right job: Road Transport (Trucking): This is your most flexible option.

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Biden Rolls Out New Limits on AI Chip Exports

Supply Chain Brain

Biden cited a need to thwart smuggling efforts, close loopholes in trade policies, and establish the U.S. and its allies as the global leaders in AI technology.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Global Compliance and Regulatory Changes in International Shipping

TransAudit

Global shipping and transportation present tremendous opportunities for businesses, but they also bring complex challenges, particularly when it comes to compliance. Ensuring global compliance with rapidly changing international regulations, tariffs, and trade agreements is a significant concern for businesses involved in cross-border logistics. Staying on top of these changes is crucial to avoid costly fines, shipment delays, and damaged reputations.

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Extension from Biden Admin Grants U.S. Steel Sale Second Life

Supply Chain Brain

Japan's Nippon Steel now has until June 18, 2025 to fully abandon its bid to purchase U.S. Steel.

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Bottles, Barrels and the Business of Beverage Distribution

Logistics Bureau

The global alcoholic beverages market is forecast to grow to $3,875 billion by 2032. The global non-alcoholic beverage market size is projected to grow to $3.8 trillion by 2034. Overall, that means billions of litres of drinks to be delivered to consumers all over the planet. At the same time, beverage producers, like food producers and others, are being pressured in multiple directions.

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The Real Difference Between Data & Information: Why It Matters to Your Business

WorkWave

Terms like data and information are often used interchangeably in business. However, understanding the distinction between the two is critical for organizations aiming to grow, optimize and innovate. The difference lies in how raw data is transformed into actionable insightsa process that enables businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Lets explore this distinction and how businesses can utilize both data and information effectively.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Penske Renews Support of Women In Trucking

Penske Move Ahead

The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) announced today that Penske has renewed its Gold Level Partnership, underscoring the companys dedication to advancing gender diversity in the industry. This continued collaboration strengthens WITs mission to empower women, celebrate their achievements, and address the challenges they face within the transportation sector.

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Top Supply Chain Risks to Prepare for in 2025

Logistics Viewpoints

This is the time of year when analysts get bombarded with pitches from PR firms. The pitches share a sneak peek of the predictions that a CEO at a solutions company is making and then asks the journalist if they want to interview the CEO. These predictions mostly seem obvious. I got a pitch from the PR firm representing Everstream Analytics that was different.