This week’s edition features two cornerstone resources—our downloadable white papers, Architecting the Future of Logistics with A2A, MCP, and Graph-Enhanced Reasoning and Cyber Resilience in the Supply Chain: Building Networks that Anticipate, Withstand, and Adapt to Digital Threats. Both explore how connected intelligence and proactive defense are redefining logistics operations.
In Securing the Chain: The Expanding Threat Landscape – Part 2 of 10, we continue our deep dive into the cybersecurity challenges facing global trade networks. Our guest commentary, From Automation to Agency: A New Era of Supply Chain Intelligence, examines how agentic AI is driving real gains in manufacturing efficiency and decision autonomy.
On the technology front, OpenAI and AWS Forge $38B Alliance signals the end of Microsoft exclusivity and the beginning of a multi-cloud era for advanced AI compute. In the automotive sector, Stellantis: $13 Billion, 5,000 Jobs, and a New U.S. Manufacturing Strategy highlights how reshoring and reinvestment are rewriting supply dynamics across North America.
In life sciences, Kimberly-Clark’s Supply Chain Challenge: Mergers, Compliance, and Accountability explores the procurement pressures emerging under the EU’s new CSDDD framework. And to tie it all together, this week’s live event, Building a Sustainable Supply Chain: Turning Commitments into Competitive Advantage, brought these themes into focus with expert analysis and practical guidance.
In short: supply chains are evolving beyond efficiency. The leaders now are those investing in intelligence, resilience, and sustainability—today, not tomorrow.