AI & ML technology integrations provide broad advantages for supply chain management. 

The move underscores the heightened attention on airline safety this year, with headline-grabbing incidents from multiple carriers. 

Kroger plans to use Ocado's robotic picking arms to move groceries off of nearby shelves into bags for online customer orders.

By emphasizing digitalization, predictiveness and autonomy, new levels of success in speed, accuracy, service and revenue can be realized. 

Supply chain leaders are expected to increase investment in technologies over the next two years, but they must prioritize what they want to implement, says Carly West, senior director analyst at Gartner.

Many port operations were disrupted, and air freight was hit the hardest, with a recovery period of the complex air cargo network predicted to last days or weeks.

The company pegged the incident to “a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” and said the outage wasn’t down to a cyberattack or security breach.

Chief information officers today face increasing pressure to keep pace with advances in technology. And that brings the role of the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) into prominence.

The funds will be used for 10 separate projects across five ports, including cargo route optimization, emission reductions, and trucking appointment systems.

Predictive AI models will power smarter inventory distribution, greater pick path efficiency and dynamic order grouping, thereby improving accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating throughput.