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Rivian’s Q2 Production and Delivery Performance Impresses Wall Street

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Rivian Automotive’s reported operational performance in the latest quarter, but at the same time continued challenges in the months to come. Rivian will be reporting its Q2 financial results after the stock market close of business on August 8 th. and Europe. billion as compared to $4.7

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

294 manufacturing facilities produced more than 90 million metric tons of food and beverage in 2021. The company is using Blue Yonder for transportation management, Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru for network design, and FourKites ( see the webinar ) for transportation visibility in certain regions or departments to help with this.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

Track public policy development on Pew Research Center At Pew Research Center, you can browse the report related to public policy published since 1983. The report itself is so comprehensive and full of useful data and charts. Need more analytics power? Need more analytical skill? Resource: Google Public Data 3.

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A Holistic Smart City Strategy Requires a Digital Twin

Enterra Insights

Without a holistic vision and strategy, technologies purchased to enhance one city system might not be compatible with technology utilized to enhance other urban systems. Taylor-Smith reports, “Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) has successfully used digital twin technology to create a virtual representation of Singapore.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] AI Technologies: The Role of Humans & The Application in Logistics

GlobalTranz

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we? Will they make all of us obsolete someday?

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So You Want to Make the Perfect Logistics Model

Logility

Why do we build logistics models? But I ask it because modeling often takes a detour into the land of debilitating detail. And by debilitating, I mean an enormous analytical time sink — think months. I am often asking clients whether they wish to: A) Model the precise general ledger costs for logistics?

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New Developments Among Electric Vehicle Automotive Players

Supply Chain Matters

EV producer Tesla reported a setback in quarter over quarter vehicle production and delivery performance. The EV auto maker reported quarterly deliveries amounted to 254,695 cars in Q2. That delivery number compared with the 310,048 reported deliveries in the first quarter of this year. Volkswagen.