Logistics Technology

Echo said the new Roadtex facilities are based in Greenville, South Carolina and also outside of Nashville, adding that these locations provide customers with various benefits, including improved technology, increased square footage, expanded transportation, and warehousing capabilities, and additional capacity.

The tool helps companies spot delays and take quick action—automatically rescheduling, rerouting, or notifying teams in real time.

Most supply chains focus on quick AI wins, risking long-term growth and scalability.

WiseTech said that the purchase agreement was $3.30 per share in cash, for a total of $2.1 billion. The company added that bringing e2open into the fold helps it strategically on various fronts, like adding adjacent markets, customer bases, and product capabilities, enabling WiseTech to “create a global, multi-sided, trade, and logistics marketplace.”

These agents are expected to buy materials, respond to changing demand, and even suggest new strategies.

Companies are betting on AI to deal with inflation and trade issues, but many are running into the same roadblocks: insufficient talent, tight budgets, and bad data. That’s the main takeaway from RELEX Solutions’ new report, State of Supply Chain 2025: Balancing Inflation, Investment & Innovation.

A new LeanDNA survey reveals differences in how execs and supply chain leaders view ROI and risks.

Gartner has identified the top supply chain technology trends for 2025, focusing on connectivity and intelligence to help businesses stay competitive. These trends aim to improve logistics and warehousing efficiency, tracking, and automation.

The company’s new tools include a disruption tracker, freight procurement analytics, and a smart AI assistant

Deloitte, Gartner both find adoption of Gen AI is taking its time to ramp up .

2025 will see more use cases, rapid deployment of the technology throughout the supply chain.

The platform integrates third-party logistics (3PL), fourth-party logistics (4PL), and advanced transportation management system (TMS) technology into one seamless solution. With this innovation, shippers no longer need to rely on multiple providers to meet their complex logistics needs.

Through its proprietary generative AI technology, the company said that the automated steps the technology addresses for an entire lifecycle of a freight shipment, upon receiving and reading an incoming e-mail, include: giving customers a price quote; accepting a load; setting appointments for pickup and delivery; and checking the load in transit.

The company said that these new enhancements mesh what it called seamless final mile capabilities through a strategic integration with Uber Direct, modular TMS functionality, advanced Insights AI features, and flexible procurement software.  

There may be no hotter topic in supply chain in 2024 than Generative AI. That is especially true in procurement, which is seeing growing interest and rapid deployment of Gen AI.