Supply & Demand Chain Executive

b2wise's New AI Platform Transform Business Planning

CommWise.ai connects data from virtually any source and enables teams to rapidly create dashboards, reports, workflows, diagnostics, applications, and custom business logic.

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Building Workforce Infrastructure with Robotics in Mind

For many robotics programs, building that workforce infrastructure has proven harder than building the product.

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Training/Onboarding

Female CEOs Continue Climbing: 27.6% Appointment Rate in 2026

Challenger, Gray & Christmas

Through July, the rate of new female CEOs stands at 27.6% year-to-date, up from 25.6% in the same period of 2025 and on pace to surpass last year’s full-year rate of 25.4%.

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IATA Reports 3.9% Air Cargo Growth in July Amid Rising Fuel Costs

International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Global manufacturing activity eased slightly in June but remained supportive, while export orders reached their highest level in three months.

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SHIP.com Launches AI Shipping Manager for E-Commerce Sellers

Both solutions enable e-commerce businesses to automate order processing and label generation while gaining greater visibility into shipping costs, delivery options, and fulfillment workflows.

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Training/Onboarding

Family Businesses Choose Outside Executives Over Family Succession

Only 36% expect family members to occupy most senior leadership roles over the next decade.

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Closed-Loop PLA Recycling Achieves Industrial-Scale Success in Europe

The consortium confirmed that PLA can be effectively sorted from mixed plastic waste streams using existing technologies before being chemically broken down into lactic acid and rebuilt into high-quality PLA with properties equivalent to virgin material.

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Top Tech Startups

Top Tech Startup

This award, presented by both Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive, spotlights the top software and technology startups in the supply chain and logistics space.

Asian Economies Dominate Global AI Supply Chain Space

Atradius Trade Credit Insurance

Europe appears relatively weakly positioned between Asia, which dominates chip production (Taiwan) and exports of rare earths (China), and the United States, which controls the software, cloud infrastructure, and chip design.

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How to Build an AI Upskilling Growth Strategy

Building an AI-ready workforce requires more than AI training. Here's why.

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Procurement Software

The Procurement Intelligence Gap: Why Most Organizations Aren't Ready to Scale AI

The barrier today is not a shortage of AI ambition. It is the condition of the data and processes that AI depend on.

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Empowering Operators: How to Make Strategy Actionable on the Production Line

Tools such as operating systems bring strategy into daily execution. At the plant level, this translates into a more people-centered way of working.

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