REZ-1, Inc., a provider of asset management, equipment reservation, billing and reload services to the domestic intermodal industry, has acquired International Asset Systems (IAS), a vendor of cloud-based software for global logistics and transportation management.

For all the talk of "collaboration," the relationship between buyer and supplier in the supply chain is often more like a tug of war: in the end, one side wins, and the other loses.

enVista, a provider of supply-chain consulting and I.T. services, has launched implementation and support services for Microsoft platform-based applications.

As global companies increasingly explore dynamic discounting solutions to improve their operating income and provide much needed working capital flows to their supply chain, questions often arise about how government regulations and accounting standards come into play.

The largest public companies in the U.S. chose to go even further into debt in 2015 instead of driving cash out of their businesses by improving how they collect from customers, pay suppliers and manage inventory, according to the annual working capital survey from REL, a division of The Hackett Group Inc. Overall working capital performance continued to degrade, reaching poorest performance levels since the 2008 financial crisis.

The long-term impact of Brexit on European supply chains is yet to be determined, but some early results are in.