Global executives are increasingly concerned about the growing risks to their supply chains and costly negative impacts such as margin erosion and inability to keep up with demand, according to a report from Deloitte. Yet as they operate in this environment of escalating risk, an alarming 45 percent of surveyed executives say their supply chain risk management programs are only somewhat effective or not effective at all.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China's largest e-commerce company, plans to join with partners to build a logistics network across China that can support 10tr Yuan ($1.6tr) worth of transactions a year within the next decade.
Greg Aimi, research director with Gartner, joins us in a discussion of new ideas in logistics outsourcing, including the move from transaction-based to strategic relationships between providers and their customers.
Asia Pacific's logistics industry continues to develop at a fast rate despite the economic weakness of its two largest trade partners - the EU and the U.S.
The TrueCommerce EDI (electronic data interchange) application of HighJump Software allows for tracking and reporting on EDI data, with built-in transaction history and reporting features.
IBM has introduced software that is intended to address the rise of "omni-channel" shoppers - consumers who expect a consistent sales and marketing experience across multiple sales channels.
Agentrics, a vendor of cloud-based applications to support supply-chain collaboration, has changed its name to that of its parent company, Brazil-based NeoGrid.