Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are disrupting physical supply chains and critical digital infrastructure. The impact goes beyond stranded tennis professionals. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Sunday (March 1) an outage at its United Arab Emirates data center after a rocket attack struck the...
January’s Producer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in hotter than expected. For businesses navigating tariff swings and fragile global supply chains, rising service margins signal that cost pressure is rippling through logistics and distribution channels. As for the read across for...
It’s not quite clear when and if American businesses will receive refunds on tariff payments. But assuming they go through, supply chain management firm Flexport said Thursday (Feb. 26) it has its customers covered with a new fleet of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. These agents...
Last week, the Supreme Court sided with American businesses in their fight against White House tariffs. But as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday, CEOs aren’t declaring victory just yet, as a number of issues remain unresolved, such as the question of whether refunds...
Logistics is moving from a game of scale to one of smarts. As global trade shifts under the weight of ongoing uncertainty and geopolitical strain, knowing where goods are, what condition they are in, and how quickly they can move has become a strategic capability,...
One of the underplayed areas of The Prompt Economy is the supply chain. But new developments around procurement and logistics have brought agentic AI to the fore in this area with a promise that bottlenecks in the last mile can be smoothed by this technology....
GrubMarket raised $50 million in a Series H funding round to extend the reach of its platform for the American food supply chain industry. The company does business in 70 countries around the world and aims to expand further, it said in a Monday (Feb....
The entrenched volatility of the United States’ ever-shifting tariffs strategy has become part of the structure of the nation’s economy, with major implications for consumer spending. So have ambiguity and unpredictability. Will certain levies increase further? Decrease? Be delayed? Scrapped altogether? What new tariffs might...
Supply chain volatility became structural this year. Throughout 2025, President Donald Trump’s tariffs increasingly served as a stress test for enterprise agility, making real-time data fundamental to decision-making, enabling CFOs to rethink procurement as a lever for operational resilience, and helping finance and procurement work together to map out supply chains in real time. Suppliers...