Supply Chain news and trends

Digital Upstarts Set Sights on Impacting Trade Finance

October 22, 2024
AI Swarms: The Future of Teamwork?
artificial intelligence // October 21, 2024

OpenAI’s new Swarm software unleashes teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to tackle complex tasks, potentially reshaping business automation across industries. It’s an open-source project that allows specialized AI helpers to hand off tasks to each other.  “The Swarm Framework can revolutionize supply chain management...

Making Sense of B2B2C Marketing’s Growing Role Across Connected Commerce
Partnerships // October 11, 2024

Business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) marketing may look like a word salad at first glance. But that word salad could be key to unlocking healthy growth for companies of all shapes and sizes, and it’s making waves for brands that want to reach the end customer without cutting...

Amazon Vet Dave Clark Launches Supply Chain Startup Auger
Supply Chain // October 08, 2024

Former Amazon and Flexport executive Dave Clark is launching a supply chain software startup. Auger, the focus of a Tuesday (Oct. 8) CNBC report, aims to help businesses and government agencies meld what Clark calls the various “Franken-software” managing their supply chains into one platform....

Payments Innovations Are Helping Put Supply Chain Nightmares to Bed
B2B Payments // October 03, 2024

Supply chains underpin the global economy, and inefficiencies in payment processes have emerged as a barrier to growth, resilience and cost control. On Thursday (Oct. 3), HSBC launched an embedded finance venture with Tradeshift, a cloud-based, global trade network for purchase-to-pay automation, supply chain payments, marketplaces,...

Interviews & Exclusives
WEX: How Companies Are Slashing Costs by Optimizing Business Payments

September 24, 2024
Choice can be both a necessity and a paralyzing paradox. Particularly in the world of business payments, finding the optimal mix of payment methods has become a critical challenge for companies seeking to maximize operational efficiency, reduce costs and improve cash flow management. After all, no two businesses are the same — and no two […]

Data Shows 93% of Truckers Would Use Instant Payments if Offered

August 19, 2024
The transportation industry is a high-speed world of logistics and delivery, where efficiency and speed are paramount. Yet, the methods by which many transportation businesses conduct financial transactions are not...

Walmart: AI Helps Create ‘Ready for Anything’ Supply Chains

July 03, 2024
What gets measured ultimately gets improved. And when it comes to supply chain management, that old adage couldn’t be truer. Fortunately for businesses, despite ongoing supply chain disruptions and operational...

Heads of Product Report Heavy Toll From Payments Uncertainty

June 20, 2024
Corporate heads of product drive profitability by setting strategic goals and supporting innovation across an organization’s entire product line. Unlike CFOs and corporate heads of payments, product executives tend to...

Quick Reads
Amazon Vet Dave Clark Launches Supply Chain Startup Auger

October 08, 2024
Former Amazon and Flexport executive Dave Clark is launching a supply chain software startup. Auger, the focus of a Tuesday (Oct. 8) CNBC report, aims to help businesses and government agencies meld what Clark calls the various “Franken-software” managing their supply chains into one platform. “At Flexport, I got to see all of these companies […]

Amazon Adds Fully Managed Option to Supply Chain Services

September 18, 2024
Amazon has added a fully managed option to the lineup of supply chain services it offers to sellers. The new fully managed Supply Chain by Amazon solution will be available to all U.S....

Rappi Expects to Be Ready for IPO in 12 Months

September 16, 2024
Rappi reportedly expects to be in a position to launch an initial public offering (IPO) within the next 12 months. The Colombia-based startup, which offers delivery services in nine countries...

Citi and IFC Partner on Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Program

August 06, 2024
Citi and International Finance Corp. (IFC), a global development institution that is a member of the World Bank Group, have partnered on a $2 billion sustainable supply chain finance program...