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Supply Chain

Avetta | April 05, 2021

Avetta®, the leading provider of supply chain risk management software, is expanding Avetta ConnectTM with an intelligent supplier classification tool to better match various supplier categories to the protection and qualification criteria for the work they do. The new process, which will be available in early April, streamlines supplier onboarding while still adding more service levels, making it a better match for a larger variety of suppliers. “The Avetta Connect plat...

Software and Technology, Freight

Transfix, Inc | August 12, 2022

Transfix, Inc. ("Transfix"), the Intelligent Freight Platform™, today announced Tony Tzeng has joined as the company's first-ever Chief Product Officer. He will lead product strategy, execution, and innovation serving shippers and carriers across the Transfix portfolio. Tzeng's expertise is in enterprise AI, and he joins Transfix from UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software vendor, where he served as VP of Product Management for AI products. Prior to that he serv...

Supply Chain Dive | August 28, 2020

Unilever is partnering with Orbital Insight, a satellite imagery and data analytics firm, on a pilot program to help the consumer-goods company meet its goal of a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023 and trace its global palm oil supply from factories back to individual forests and farms, Orbital announced Tuesday. Orbital Insight will use satellite imagery, GPS, artificial intelligence, the internet of things and other visibility data to monitor palm oil farms, the health of local forests, a...

Software and Technology

eTrac | November 02, 2021

Logistics technology innovators Imaginnovate and eTrac today announced a partnership intended to further automate final-mile shipment delivery. Imaginnovate said its Fleet Enable software would link with eTrac’s data integration platform to connect shippers and carriers. Both companies said the partnership would streamline the burgeoning market for deliveries to home or office. We’re excited about working with eTrac because we can now offer our partners i...