While it's important to connect the supply chain to finance, all company functions and departments must be linked, says Reggie Twigg, supply chain marketing lead at Anaplan.

Whether they’re customers, vendors or suppliers, you need other businesses in order to grow your own business, says Tiffanie Stanard, CEO of Stimulus.

Pierfrancesco Manenti, Gartner vice president analyst, says "commercial innovation" refers to the efficiencies that chief supply chain officers bring to the provider and to the customer.

Around 94% of hazardous material spills are due to trucking, and just 4% to rail, says Joseph R. Hinrichs, president & chief executive officer of CSX.

Karen Betancourt, former vice president of enterprise logistics with Cardinal Health, summarizes takeaways from the Global Supply Chain Marketing Summit, presented by SupplyChainBrain and CSCMP.

Many applications of value to supply chain managers are now free, says Ethan Feldman, senior manager of shipper solutions at Loadsmart.

There’s a revolution coming to the freight industry in the form of artificial intelligence, but what does that actually mean?

Direct procurement needs to be involved in all of a company's business strategy decisions from the very beginning, says Georg Roesch, vice president of direct procurement strategy at Jaggaer.

Achieving an intelligent, composable supply chain is all about embracing heterogeneity in technology and data sources, says Rohit Tripathi, principal chief technology officer at Grid Dynamics.

The use of data for demand sensing and shaping, already well-advanced in the B2C world, is now being adopted in B2B as well, says Sujit Singh, chief operating officer of Arkieva.