Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

CSCMP NOTEBOOK

Nominations open for 2023 Supply Chain Hall of Fame

CSCMP members have until January 16, 2023, to nominate supply chain leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the field.

Who is your supply chain hero? Nominations are now open for CSCMP’s Supply Chain Hall of Fame Class of 2023 and will close on January 16, 2023.

CSCMP's Supply Chain Hall of Fame recognizes those industry leaders who have helped define and transform the discipline of supply chain management. Inductees are announced annually at the Council’s EDGE Conference, which will be held this year in Kissimmee, Florida, on October 1–3.  


To be eligible, each Hall of Fame inductee must have at least 20 years of experience in supply chain and logistics and fall under one of the following categories: 

  • industry transformers, who have created an innovative supply chain technology, business, or process or have driven legislation or regulation that has transformed the industry,
  • knowledge creators and communicators, such as researchers, authors, journalists, and consultants, or 
  • industry leaders/practitioners.

Past inductees include James Casey, founder and director of UPS; management consultant Peter Drucker; former Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; Taiichi Ohno, creator of the Toyota Production System; and George J. Laurer, inventor of the UPC barcode. Additionally, all of CSCMP’s Distinguished Service Award winners have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.

To nominate a supply chain leader for this award, visit cscmp.formstack.com/forms/2023_hall_of_fame_nomination_form

 

Recent

More Stories

AI image of a dinosaur in teacup

Amazon to release new generation of AI models in 2025

Logistics and e-commerce giant Amazon says it will release a new collection of AI tools in 2025 that could “simplify the lives of shoppers, sellers, advertisers, enterprises, and everyone in between.”

The launch is based on “Amazon Nova,” the company’s new generation of foundation models, the company said in a blog post. Data scientists use foundation models (FMs) to develop machine learning (ML) platforms more quickly than starting from scratch, allowing them to create artificial intelligence applications capable of performing a wide variety of general tasks, since they were trained on a broad spectrum of generalized data, Amazon says.

Keep ReadingShow less

Featured

Logistics economy continues on solid footing
Logistics Managers' Index

Logistics economy continues on solid footing

Economic activity in the logistics industry expanded in November, continuing a steady growth pattern that began earlier this year and signaling a return to seasonality after several years of fluctuating conditions, according to the latest Logistics Managers’ Index report (LMI), released today.

The November LMI registered 58.4, down slightly from October’s reading of 58.9, which was the highest level in two years. The LMI is a monthly gauge of business conditions across warehousing and logistics markets; a reading above 50 indicates growth and a reading below 50 indicates contraction.

Keep ReadingShow less
chart of top business concerns from descartes

Descartes: businesses say top concern is tariff hikes

Business leaders at companies of every size say that rising tariffs and trade barriers are the most significant global trade challenge facing logistics and supply chain leaders today, according to a survey from supply chain software provider Descartes.

Specifically, 48% of respondents identified rising tariffs and trade barriers as their top concern, followed by supply chain disruptions at 45% and geopolitical instability at 41%. Moreover, tariffs and trade barriers ranked as the priority issue regardless of company size, as respondents at companies with less than 250 employees, 251-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-50,000 and 50,000+ employees all cited it as the most significant issue they are currently facing.

Keep ReadingShow less
diagram of blue yonder software platforms

Blue Yonder users see supply chains rocked by hack

Grocers and retailers are struggling to get their systems back online just before the winter holiday peak, following a software hack that hit the supply chain software provider Blue Yonder this week.

The ransomware attack is snarling inventory distribution patterns because of its impact on systems such as the employee scheduling system for coffee stalwart Starbucks, according to a published report. Scottsdale, Arizona-based Blue Yonder provides a wide range of supply chain software, including warehouse management system (WMS), transportation management system (TMS), order management and commerce, network and control tower, returns management, and others.

Keep ReadingShow less
drawing of person using AI

Amazon invests another $4 billion in AI-maker Anthropic

Amazon has deepened its collaboration with the artificial intelligence (AI) developer Anthropic, investing another $4 billion in the San Francisco-based firm and agreeing to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary training partner and to collaborate on developing its specialized machine learning (ML) chip called AWS Trainium.

The new funding brings Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion, while maintaining the e-commerce giant’s position as a minority investor, according to Anthropic. The partnership was launched in 2023, when Amazon invested its first $4 billion round in the firm.

Keep ReadingShow less