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China Announces Export Controls on Five Critical Minerals

Exiger Perspectives

Mineral Uses Tungsten Artillery shells, armor plating, cutting tools, engine parts, airplane balancing weights. Tellurium Solar panels, thermoelectric devices, infrared optics, steel alloys, and rechargeable batteries. Bismuth Medical treatments, lead-free solder, cosmetics, flame retardants, and ammunition.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- June 26 2025

Supply Chain Matters

Billion Acquisition of e2open Australia based logistics software provider WiseTech, developer of logistics execution software CargoWise , announced an agreement to acquire U.S. Reportedly, Eliott participated in the original buyout of E2open in 2015. WiseTech Announces $2.1 million in total revenues, a decline of 4.8

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Oracle Announces AI Agents in Supply Chain Applications

Supply Chain Matters

Oracle has announced new role-based agents that are being embedded into the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM and Manufacturing software applications suite. Margin and risk resilience Procurement policy advisor : Helps procurement professionals increase the speed and accuracy of creating, processing, and fulfilling purchase requisitions.

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As The Wind Blows: Improving Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

The industry is awash with technologists and consultants focused on selling solutions. The survey responses were divided into three periods: 2013-2015, 2016-2019, and 2020-2022. (I Will we transform and improve supply chain planning systems based on AI? Again, who knows? Slick Willies, full of hyperbole, dominate.

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Trends in Logistics Technology, according to Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

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Gartner on what Execs were Saying at Its 2025 Supply Chain Conference

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

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To Plan the Supply Chain, or Not

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Isn't this contradicting in itself?