The focus by companies on fulfilling basic orders during the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed a more insidious problem to come to a head: the influx of gray-market products into the supply chain.

To ensure that they're meeting goals for sustainability and carbon tracking, shippers need to have an "open ecosystem" that enables data transformation among all supply chain partners, says Mike Reed, chief product officer with Redwood Logistics.

There are some basic characteristics that enable flexibility for last-mile carriers.

Supply chains consume resources on a large scale, making decarbonization an enormous priority.

With the challenges that supply chains face today, managers realize that visibility is more important than ever, says Jerome Roberts, global vice president of marketing at Blume Global. After all, you can't react to what you can't see.

Most platforms cater to the large enterprise market, but a new breed of transportation management system is changing the competitive landscape.

Maintaining your organization’s dependence on collecting, tracking and sharing supply chain data with Excel is perhaps the biggest threat to agility, resilience, visibility and profitability.

Suzanne Offerman, senior marketing manager for Onesource Global Trade at Thomson Reuters, describes the technology needed to avoid forced labor in manufacturing supply chains.

Quantum computing has arrived. But is it mature enough to solve brutally complex supply chain problems?