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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 billion metric tons as of 2017.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

If you look back ten years ago, being a good supply chain manager was about understanding the operations, understanding your metrics, keeping a tight grip on the costs—it’s a lot more than that now. It’s a lot more forward focused than our traditional view, in which we’re steering the ship by looking over our shoulder at the wake.