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whitePaper | June 30, 2022

The global pandemic has upended the Facilities Management and Transport & Logistics industries. Remote working and social distancing have driven up the reliance on delivery services as eCommerce became the norm.

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

Autonomous shipping is set to revolutionize work in the maritime industry not by replacing humans on board vessels but by augmenting their cognitive capabilities to enhance the ship operators’ potential. As an example, the challenges are considered faced by the officer of the watch, who is responsible for ensuring a safe navigation of the vessel whilst keeping a watch on the bridge. Not only must she or he contend with working shifts and periods of fatigue and boredom, but also with spells on the bridge during which the outlook is impaired by darkness, fog or challenging weather.

whitePaper | December 31, 2019

How can companies reward their suppliers’ commitment to sustainability? With Sustainable Supply Chain Finance (SSCF) companies can give preferential conditions to those of their suppliers who meet social and environmental standards. This ensures the stability of their supply chain and also improves their own environmental and social performance. They also receive an attractive return on excess liquidity. Supply chain finance platforms make it easier than ever to implement SSCF in practice.

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

The supply chains of many organizations are becoming increasingly complex. At the same time, potential business risks around supply chains are growing, due to increasing regulations regarding supply chain security, emerging cybersecurity risks, international sanctions, environmental and carbon concerns, product quality issues, climate-related weather events, increasing supply costs, and numerous other potential disruptors. Most organizations don’t fully understand their supply chain. Companies often underestimate the number of businesses, actors, and countries involved in different stages of producing their products. A security or production vulnerability in just one part of a given product’s chain could have a huge impact on an organization’s production, mission, or business if something were to interfere with the supply.

whitePaper | March 8, 2022

The Software Supply Chain suffers from a noxious condition that leads to an absolute lack of transparency. While the hardware world would have never developed without standardized product composition information exchange across suppliers, somehow the Software industry made it to this point without such standards. Needless to say, we are paying the consequences of this shortcoming. The worst part of the recent LOG4J vulnerability was not the exploit itself, but the absolute lack of visibility on which products and services it affected.

whitePaper | October 15, 2022

The rise of e-commerce has again underlined the need for profound technical change and boosted progress in this area. With the rapid advancement of cloud-based technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics, companies will need to reassess their business models, and fast. The technology revolution isn’t years away – it’s here, and it could dramatically change the workforce structure.