Australian sole traders and microbusinesses are facing a combination of rising overheads, payment delays, administrative demands and limited time. For owners without specialist staff, the strain can reach beyond profit margins, affecting their ability to pay themselves and the energy they have left for running…
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A survey of 250 managers and senior professionals at organisations using AI in supply chain, logistics, distribution and wholesale found that roughly one in six said their company had experienced an incident in the previous year in which an AI tool exposed supplier or customer data, shared it, or allowed…
Food supply networks are being reshaped by climate pressures, geopolitical disruption and the growing dependence of retailers on tightly connected logistics and digital systems. At a FoodChain Forward conference in the Netherlands, Roel Gevaers, a supply-chain management professor at the University of Antwerp, argued that…
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Every purchasing decision shapes more than price and quality. It influences how a business uses natural resources, how it treats workers in its supply chain and how resilient its operations will be when markets tighten or conditions change. That is the central argument made by Sofia Efraimoglou-Kounenaki, who writes that…
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View AllMaine Pointe and Sophus Technology have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping companies use artificial intelligence and optimisation tools to make supply-chain decisions faster and carry them through to implementation. According to the companies, the arrangement combines Sophus Technology’s supply-chain network design software with Maine Pointe’s transformation and execution…
