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Intelligent workflows challenge siloed processes, uncovering efficiencies across a network of processes and partners.

Digitally connecting and automating processes on the edge extends the reach and visibility of supply chains by dividing processes into sets of smaller, more manageable actions.

Chicago-based project44, a technology services provider offering standardized, secure Web service API (application programming interfaces) integrations enabling 3PLs and shippers to connect with carriers in real time, said this week it is partnering up with global technology titan IBM in a meshing of precise transportation data and AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities geared towards overcoming logistics challenges and improving customer experience.

The blockchain relationship between Maersk and IBM dates back to June 2016, when they initially teamed up to build new blockchain- and cloud-based technologies, which have subsequently been piloted by various concerns, including DuPont, Dow Chemical, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among others.

With IBM Sterling and Red Hat OpenShift, clients can build intelligent, self-correcting, Watson AI- and IBM Blockchain-powered supply chains and modernize existing supply chain applications.

This white paper details the challenges and technologies shaping the future supply chain and why companies and their supply chains must be agile and able to pivot and adapt to stay ahead of the competition.

Leading tech, telecom, pharma, beverage and manufacturing companies collaborate with IBM and Chainyard to streamline supply chain management using a new blockchain network; Anheuser-Busch InBev, Cisco GlaxoSmithKline, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric and Vodafone to tackle supplier information challenges.

IBM and Chainyard today announced Trust Your Supplier (TYS), a new blockchain network designed to improve supplier qualification, validation, onboarding and life cycle information management.

Data analysis and smart devices capable of acting autonomously stand poised to support the transition to the Industrial Internet of Things.

Exponential technologies like AI continue to evolve and generate new data to enhance the experience for employees and customers alike.

Combining traffic speed insight with highly localized weather forecast data to help more accurately predict travel time.

IBM and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source cloud software, announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.

In a joint report, DHL and IBM have evaluated the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in logistics and exposed how it can be best applied to transform the industry.

This 2018 paper is a collaborative report by DHL and IBM on implications and use cases for the logistics industry, it details how Artificial intelligence (AI) provides a huge opportunity as it leaps from consumer segments to enterprises and onward to the industrial sector and logistics.

The industry-wide collaboration announced in January advances as more than 90 organizations participate in the global trade solution with more than 154 million events captured on the platform and growing by one million per day.