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Ligentia Group (Ligentia) has completed its acquisition of VGL Solid Group (VGL). This further strengthens Ligentia’s position as a provider of supply chain and logistics services, with revenues of over £1bn, accelerating its ambitions to leverage its technology and experience by growing into new, fast-growing territories and sectors.

o9 Solutions, the enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, has launched Supply Sensing, a next-generation solution designed to help companies better predict Supply disruptions by localising the effect of macro-level shocks on their specific supply chain and creating mitigating strategies to avoid any adverse impact on their businesses.

By Reece Mathews, freelance writer.

Disruptions of supply chains are still happening all around the world, as you can see if you visit any mainstream news website. Global supply chain problems pose a serious danger to manufacturers' efficiency and capacity to satisfy pressing business commitments.

Technology has made significant advancements and has already solved many of the supply chain challenges affecting companies today. However, we can't claim that all the challenges have decreased when compared to previous years.

As the frequency and magnitude of supply chain disruptions increase, chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) can take three actions to navigate ongoing disruption on both the macro and micro level, according to Gartner, Inc. 

European businesses are looking towards Romania, Turkey and Morocco as alternatives to production in Ukraine and Asia following months of supply-chain disruption, according to the new ‘Supply Chain Disruptions’ report, from JLL.

Synopsys, Inc. has published BSIMM13, the latest edition of the annual Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) report analysing the software security practices across 130 organisations – including Adobe, PayPal and Lenovo – in their cumulative efforts to secure more than 145,000 applications built and maintained by nearly 410,000 developers.

The current crisis in Europe has led to increasing energy insecurity and shortages of raw materials, which are creating severe pharmaceutical manufacturing supply line disruptions. In some cases, supplier lead times have doubled, prices are no longer certain, and orders are subject to cancellations or delays.  

Sphera, the global provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and risk management software, data and consulting services, has entered into an agreement to acquire riskmethods, a Munich, Germany-based software company specialising in supply chain risk management (SCRM).

CBX Software, the provider of extended product lifecycle management and global supply chain management solutions, has partnered with WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production), an independent non-profit, focused on global social compliance certification, to integrate certification data directly into CBX Cloud.