Woodstock Wire: Supply Chain News

Business Wire -- Logility, Inc., a leader in prescriptive supply chain planning solutions, today announced the extension of its inventory planning and optimization capabilities with InventoryAI+. Building on existing AI capabilities, InventoryAI+ improves insights with...

SupplyChain -- DC Velocity - FourKites renews its commitment to hybrid work model and employee wellness

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Know your strengths and weaknesses.

Business Wire -- UPS (NYSE: UPS) has a long history of driving innovations that propel its business and bring industry-leading solutions to logistics. Today the company announced ways it is strengthening its network capabilities and enhancing employee experience through...

Aspencore -- EPS News - The global electronics supply chain has never been more dynamic and challenging than it is today. Many factors, from chip shortages to advancements in artificial intelligence, are reshaping the landscape for buyers, sellers and suppliers of...

Business Wire -- Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites announced today the opening of a new global headquarters in the heart of downtown Chicago. The state-of-the-art facility with sweeping riverfront views provides a beautiful, modern workspace for employees...

Business Wire -- Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites announced today that it has opened a new Asia-Pacific headquarters in Chennai's DLF Cybercity. The move to a more modern, compact space signals the company's continued commitment to the hybrid work model,...

Business Wire -- Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to divest its Mobility business to BYD Electronic (International) Company Limited ("BYDE") in a cash transaction valued at $2.2 billion. The definitive agreement follows a preliminary...

SupplyChain -- DC Velocity - Dexterity AI today announced a collaboration with FedEx Corp., to leverage AI-powered robotic technology to load boxes into trucks and trailers.

Media -- Evertiq - Taiwanese EMS provider Pegatron has reportedly temporarily shut down production at an iPhone assembly facility in India on Monday following a fire.

Think -- HBR.org - Companies need to do more than simply invest in building effective supply chains - they need to place an equal priority on maintaining them.

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider Dicro Oy has opened a new factory in Narva, the third largest city in Estonia.

Media -- Evertiq - Emerald EMS has inaugurated its second New Product Introduction (NPI) Center, this time in San Jose, California.

Aspencore -- EPS News - Understanding the risks associated with component selection during the design and product definition phases requires deep knowledge of the timeline for long-term system development and when components are introduced by the semiconductor company....

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Media -- Source Today - After dealing with some major supply chain disruptions during the global pandemic, companies promised to do more reshoring, nearshoring and onshoring of their operations. Here's where those initiatives stand.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Sensors provide numerous advantages for the transportation segment as vehicles join the IoT. Learn how they can help to optimize supply chains, enable electric cars, and monitor environmental conditions to protect occupant or bystander...

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider Foxconn says it is looking to double its workforce and investment in India by next year.

Business Wire -- RXO leaders Christina Hilton, Jennifer Kaczmarczyk and Alyssa Myers were named as winners of this year's Women in Supply Chain Award by Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics. The award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose...

Business Wire -- Everstream Analytics, the global supply chain insights and risk analytics company, announced today that Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive named Heather Kosztowny, Director of Data Science and Jena Santoro, Senior Manager of Supply Chain...

Business Wire -- Toshiba's Tracy Zhou Wins Prestigious 2023 Women in Supply Chain Award

SupplyChain -- SCMR Editorial - By identifying friction points and eliminating them so that planners do not perceive new tools as a risk to their job performance, leaders will develop trust among their teams that will lead to greater adoption.

Enterprise -- InfoQ - Go 1.21 toolchain is the first Go toolchain to be perfectly reproducible. This makes it possible to reduce the risk that a malicious actor can tamper with the output binaries, explains Google engineer Russ Cox, to carry through a supply chain...

SupplyChain -- DC Velocity - Awards elevate industry leaders for ingenuity, sustainability, customer value and more across their end-to-end supply chains

Tech -- GeekWire - Amazon is further expanding its delivery business with the official rollout of Amazon Shipping, a service for sellers that picks up items directly...

Aspencore -- EPS News - It was 2011 when the concept of Industry 4.0 was first introduced to the manufacturing sector. In the years since, the implementation of digitally intelligent production systems has significantly advanced. But experts say the manufacturing...

Tech -- GeekWire - An Amazon Prime container on a train near the waterfront in Seattle.



An expansion of Amazon's supply chain services will give sellers the ability to distribute products in bulk from Amazon's warehouses...

Tech -- The Verge - Amazon is bringing its advanced logistics capabilities to businesses that don't even sell on the marketplace. In an announcement on Tuesday, the e-commerce giant says its new Supply Chain...

SupplyChain -- Logistics Viewpoints - Matt Elenjickal, CEO of Real-time Transportation Visibility provider FourKites The transportation visibility market has been generously funded by venture capital. In part, this is because this is seen as a high growth, winner take...

Business Wire -- This week at Accelerate, Amazon's annual seller conference, the company announced Supply Chain by Amazon, an end-to-end, fully automated set of supply chain services that will provide sellers with a complete solution to quickly and reliably...

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider Pulskontroll recently upgraded their machine park with a new Yamaha YSM10 Pick & Place with the help of capital equipment supplier CORE-emt.

ChinaTechNews.com -- Foxconn Technology Group chairman Young Liu has backed India as an important country for the future of manufacturing, saying that the opportunities for the development of electronics manufacturing and industrial chains were huge.

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Think -- Gartner - Despite extensive technology investments, digital transformation plans for many supply chain planning (SCP) leaders are lagging due to lack of adoption of new tools among their teams.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Concerns about counterfeit chips are growing as more chips are deployed in safety- and mission-critical applications, prompting better traceability and new and inexpensive solutions that can determine if chips are new or used....

Media -- DIGITIMES - Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn (Hon Hai Technology Group), has expressed optimism in business in the fourth quarter of 2023, saying it will be definitely better than that in the third quarter.

Media -- Evertiq - The world's biggest EMS provider says that it has invested more than USD 500 million in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn (Hon Hai Technology Group) is expanding its presence in Mexico by signing a strategic partnership with the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The partnership signals an expansion of Foxconn's deployments in Mexico from the city level to the...

Media -- Evertiq - Total North American EMS shipments in July 2023 were up 3.4% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the preceding month, June shipments decreased 0.7%, reports the IPC.

Tech -- The Verge - UPS delivery drones are now allowed to fly longer distance flights beyond the sight of ground operators, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed in a press release on Wednesday. This is the kind of move that opens...

SupplyChain -- SCMR Editorial - Download this new white paper for a deep dive into the role of demand forecasting and artificial intelligence (AI) to gain a better understanding of the problems associated with each aspect of the supply chain journey and - crucially...

Think -- MIT Sloan Management Review - About the Research

This article series presents findings from the seventh annual global research study on artificial intelligence and business strategy by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. In spring...

Media -- eBOM - Though cost pressures continue to impact the electronics industry, product demand and inventories remain positive, leading to a healthy supply chain per IPC's August 2023 Global Sentiment of the Electronics Supply Chain Report.

"Over the next...

Business Wire -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ontario, Canada-based Clearpath Robotics Inc., a leader in...

Media -- DIGITIMES - With global smartphone demand likely to remain in a weak state in the second half of 2023, Apple, like all other smartphone brands, also turned conservative with its iPhone shipment outlook. Apple is therefore placing fewer orders with the...

Life -- TEDTalks Videos - From health-tracking wearables to smartphones and beyond, data collection and computer modeling have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Advancements in these areas have given birth to "digital twins," or virtual models that evolve...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Agile Electronics is offering a full electronic component kitting service, providing customers with a single supplier solution by uploading their complete BoM into Agile's system as a single line item. The kit is billed with a single...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - The product shortages and supply-chain delays of the global covid-19 pandemic are still fresh memories. Consumers and industry are concerned that the next geopolitical climate event may have a similar impact. Against a backdrop...

Media -- Evertiq - Terry Gou, the founder of electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, launched his candidature for Taiwan's next president in the 2024 elections on Monday.

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Jabil's manufacturing businesses located in China (Chengdu and Wuxi) are a part of the deal. It also includes component manufacturing for the company's existing customers. Jabil and BYD Electronic International Company (BYD) have entered...

Tech -- The Verge - Hey, remember when Foxconn bought a bunch of buildings around Wisconsin just before an election and said it was building "innovation centers" around the state in a transparent attempt to build support for the...