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The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index — the indicator tracking demand conditions, shortages, transportation costs, inventories and backlogs based on a monthly survey of 27,000 businesses — decreased again in October to -0.41, from -0.35 in September, indicating a 7th successive month of rising spare capacity across the world's supply chains.

The Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the organisation for third-party logistics professionals, has announced that the American Council on Education (ACE) has recommended the Certified Transportation Broker (CTB) course for 6 undergraduate semester hours under the following course topics: Business Fundamentals and Transportation Delivery Systems.

Resilinc, the supply chain mapping, disruption sensing, and resiliency analytics company, has announced the Top 30 companies in the high-tech supply chain with the best risk and resiliency programs. These 30 companies were selected based on their Resilinc R Score.

Consumer products and retail (CPR) companies are diversifying and localising their supply chain networks to deal with last-mile delivery challenges, quick commerce expectations, and to prevent stockouts during the busy holiday season. Nearly 8 out of 10 (79%) CPR organisations today are diversifying their supplier base, with 71% actively investing in regionalising and localising.

bp has signed an agreement with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, to implement their forecasting and replenishment capabilities in its UK convenience retail business.

Supply chain leaders cite the need to reduce costs, improve the customer experience and expedite delivery times as their top-three challenges, yet fewer than half are leveraging their supply chain data to inform their strategy and 14% aren’t using supply chain data at all to make decisions.

Blog - 4flow trend monitor.

Supply chains are in constant motion – and innovation promises to speed up the rate of change. With all these developments, businesses need to know where to focus their efforts to ensure the future viability of their supply chains. The 4flow trend monitor will provide a trend outlook highlighting important developments expected to have an impact on supply chain in the next one to five years.

SCALA, a global supply chain and logistics consultancy, has appointed a new executive director to help drive the business’ future direction and strategic growth.

E2open Parent Holdings, Inc., the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, has announced that Scan Global Logistics (SGL), a global freight forwarder, has selected e2open’s cloud-based Transportation Management to simplify its application landscape and provide the freight forwarder with a single, integrated platform to manage each facet of its transportation operations across 160 locations.

By Marc Boileau, Senior Vice President Sales and Network Operations at FourKites.

Supply chain data can give businesses real-time insights into their operations, helping them navigate challenges, optimize processes and drive competitive advantage.