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Only 5% of companies are considered truly “intelligent” enterprises, leveraging ties between physical and digital worlds for better visibility and actionable insights.

The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility, but rather than embracing that vision, policymakers should consider why flying vehicles are not only unpractical but also unnecessary.

Kuebix, the creator of a transportation management system that delivers true freight intelligence, announced that over 1000 users have adopted Kuebix Shipper since its launch on October 23, Kuebix Shipper is the industry’s first free multimodal TMS that offers an unlimited rating, booking, and tracking of TL, LTL and parcel freight.

UPS sees the need to create industry standards and protocols to enable blockchain platforms to operate together with established technologies.

Bloomberg Gadfly columnist Brooke Sutherland and Christopher Rolland, an analyst at Susquehanna Semiconductor, examine Broadcom Ltd.'s $105 billion offer for Qualcomm Inc. on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."

“Uber for freight,” “On-demand trucking,” call it what you want, but the race to develop mobile apps to match an available truck with a pending load is heating up, and the players are well-funded and looking to stand out in an already saturated market.

As supply chain leaders, you have the power and potential to make a difference in your organizations.

In the past trucking companies relied solely on brokerages to feed them their business, today the industry is turning to digital freight matching platforms to serve as their modern-day little black books.

There is little room for error in private label manufacturing; to be successful, it takes a clear understanding of how to provide outstanding service levels for extremely demanding customers in a unique environment of low margins, proliferating SKUs, and multi-threaded supply chains.

Launch day supply of Apple's iPhone X was exhausted in mere minutes after the handset went up for sale early today but Apple's supply chain is rumored to only get about 20 million units delivered before the end of 2017.

Mr. James M. Foote, former president and chief executive officer of Bright Rail Energy is joining CSX as chief operating officer and will have responsibility for both operations and sales and marketing.

Earlier this month, Class I railroad carrier CSX said that it had made various changes for its intermodal freight offerings into and out of several southeastern-based United States facilities.

Kuebix, a logistics technology innovator, has announced the first free transportation management system, allowing shippers unlimited rating, booking, and tracking of LTL, TL and parcel freight.

Logistics technology innovator Kuebix is accelerating the adoption of the TMS for any size company by offering a free system to engage directly with their carriers, Kuebix will empower the shipper by democratizing basic transportation management through its free Kuebix Shipper TMS.

Facing the tightest spot truckload market in at least four years, the number of available loads on the spot truckload freight market jumped 5.4% during the week ending Sept. 30 and tight capacity sent the load-to-truck ratio for van freight into uncharted territory.

A new solution powered by IBM Blockchain in partnership with Stellar.org and KlickEx Group provides collaboration with banking leaders to accelerate financial exchange and settlement across currency corridors.

IBM has introduced the first fully integrated, enterprise-ready IBM blockchain platform to accelerate food safety adoption and provide new academic and developer initiatives to advance blockchain skills.

Technology research firm Gartner, Inc. recently noted a new trend towards supply chain “protectionism,” presumably due to the extraordinary combination of external forces proving capable of disrupting once-optimized processes and, therefore, destroying once-healthy profit margins.

In the late 1990s, small and midsize businesses struggled mightily with daily shipping operations, some logistics managers at some of the world’s large corporations were beginning to implement something called a Transport Management System, or a TMS.

Retailers are looking to compete with Amazon through third-party logistics providers who can tackle the e-fulfillment challenges with service and market specialization as well as making strategic investments in flexible automation.