Sun.Aug 28, 2022

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Can Blockchain Cut Its Ties to Cryptocurrency?

Supply Chain Brain

Does blockchain truly hold promise for creating a more efficient supply chain, or will it be dragged down by the lead weight known as Bitcoin? .

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[Video] High Fuel Prices and Logistics: Actions Companies Can Take to Mitigate the Impact

Talking Logistics

As if transportation and logistics executives didn’t have enough challenges to deal with already, high fuel prices have been added to their plate. As reported in a recent CNBC article, “Diesel prices are contributing to inflationary headwinds due to the fuel’s vital role in the American and global economy. Tankers, trains, and trucks all run. Read more [Video] High Fuel Prices and Logistics: Actions Companies Can Take to Mitigate the Impact.

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Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Risk: Time for Action

Supply Chain Brain

Lone hackers, rogue nations and cybercrime syndicates have a big agenda in common: Alone or collectively, they can bring the global supply chain to its knees.

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Zero Dark Thiry, Precision, and Supply Chain

10xLogistics

Last night I re-watched Zero Dark Thirty which is a great Hollywood rendition of the search for and ultimate killing of Osama Bin Laden. No politics here and I just want to reflect on what the learnings are for us, especially in that final scene where we get to see execution with amazing precision. There is a lot to learn here for supply chain professionals and it all revolves around the word precision.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Impacts of Inflation?

Supply Chain Brain

The manufacturing supply chain has been bruised and battered in the last few years, and the hits keep on coming: the pandemic, extreme weather, geopolitical challenges, the Great Resignation, and a wave of retirements – and now, global inflation.

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Interview with VW's Trucking CEO

Supply Chain Brain

The 55-year-old Swede was named chief executive officer of the Traton trucking unit after a management shakeup last year. He’s to steer a turnaround of the business after Europe’s biggest carmaker struggled for years to improve cooperation between its different commercial-vehicle brands.