Industrial AI is beginning to alter how factories, logistics networks, and capital assets are managed. Schedulers are using AI generated production plans, maintenance teams are acting on AI derived failure forecasts, and supply chain leaders are using AI to rebalance service, cost, and risk in near real time. At the same time, many organizations are …
In 2027, the European Union will expand its Emissions Trading System through a new phase known as ETS2. For the first time, emissions from road transport and building heat will be covered by a carbon price. This change turns carbon from an environmental issue into a direct operating cost that affects every part of the …
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A prolonged outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on October 20 caused disruptions across various industries, including logistics and supply chain operations. The incident, which lasted approximately 15 hours, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia and affected several core cloud services. The outage was linked to DNS resolution issues affecting Amazon DynamoDB. These …
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Download the full whitepaper Global supply chains are no longer just physical networks of goods, trucks, ships, and warehouses. They are digital ecosystems, stitched together by ERP systems, IoT sensors, AI platforms, cloud applications, and partner data feeds. That digitization has unlocked new efficiencies, but it has also created new vulnerabilities. A ransomware attack in …
Download the full white paper – AI in the Supply Chain Even the most advanced AI systems, A2A agents, MCP memory layers, RAG pipelines, and graph-based reasoning, are only as effective as the data they operate on. In fragmented, inconsistent, or siloed environments, these systems become unreliable, brittle, or outright useless. Data harmonization is the …
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How Data Center Growth Is Transforming Utility Planning and Power Infrastructure: Powering data centers poses a challenge for Utilities in the United States. Data centers are highly valuable to utilities because they consume large amounts of electricity with consistent, predictable demand patterns that remain steady throughout both the day and the year. The recent growth …
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Download the full white paper – AI in the Supply Chain Even the most advanced AI systems, A2A agents, MCP memory layers, RAG pipelines, and graph-based reasoning, are only as effective as the data they operate on. In fragmented, inconsistent, or siloed environments, these systems become unreliable, brittle, or outright useless. Data harmonization is the …
Download the full white paper – AI in the Supply Chain While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the accuracy and relevance of AI output by connecting it to structured knowledge, it still treats that knowledge largely as disconnected chunks, pages, paragraphs, or entries retrieved for context. But supply chains are not flat; they are complex, interrelated …
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Logistics Viewpoints is offering a free executive summary of its market research report on Transportation Management Systems (TMS), a core solution for managing today’s increasingly complex logistics and freight operations. As companies seek to reduce transportation costs, improve routing efficiency, and respond to market volatility, TMS platforms offer the visibility and control needed to succeed. …