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• Körber Launches K.AI Assistant for Trusted AI in GxP Life Sciences Operations

  21-09-2026 15:39 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Körber has introduced K.AI Assistant, a generative AI-based assistant designed for regulated pharmaceutical and life sciences environments. The solution is intended to help operators, engineers, and quality teams access information from Körber product knowledge and customer-specific GxP documentation while reducing the risk of inaccurate or unverifiable responses.The assistant is designed for use in Good Practice (GxP)-regulated processes, where generative AI tools must meet higher req
  
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• Decision Intelligence in 2026: From Analytical Insight to Consequential Decisions

  23-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Decision Intelligence is best understood not as another AI label, but as the discipline of improving consequential decisions. Enterprises already have analytics, dashboards, planning systems, visibility platforms, and increasingly capable models; the real question is whether those capabilities materially improve a decision and shorten the path from changing conditions to coordinated action.
  Analytics can explain what happened and predict what may happen. Decision Intelligence goes further by con
  
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• The Boundary Between Software and the Physical Supply Chain Is Disappearing

  22-09-2026 19:30 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  The New Logistics Advantage — Part 3 of 9
  The old distinction between information technology and physical logistics is becoming harder to maintain. Software once sat above the operation: it planned, recorded, scheduled, and reported what happened in warehouses and transportation networks. Increasingly, computation is moving into the assets and processes themselves.
  Warehouses now combine execution software with robotics, automated storage, machine vision, sensors, controls, and increasingl
  
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• Blue Yonder Shows the Value of Connecting Planning and Execution

  22-09-2026 17:53 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Blue Yonder’s position in supply chain software is increasingly defined by breadth. The company combines planning, transportation, warehousing, visibility, optimization, and decision intelligence within a common platform strategy, giving it a footprint that reaches from longer-horizon planning into day-to-day logistics execution.
  That breadth matters because the dividing line between planning and execution continues to weaken. A useful decision intelligence layer cannot stop at identifying
  
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• Germany’s Machinery Slump Is a Warning for Industrial Supply Chains

  22-09-2026 14:59 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Germany’s manufacturing numbers look better until you examine what is actually generating them.Real manufacturing orders increased 2.5 percent in July compared with June, according to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office. But remove large-scale orders and the direction reverses: orders fell 1.4 percent. The difference is extraordinary. Orders in “other transport equipment” — aircraft, ships, trains, and military vehicles — jumped 126.4 percent in a single mont
  
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• Harness Engineering in Logistics: Inside the AI Control Architecture

  22-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Harness Engineering in Logistics — Part 3 of 6
  Once harness engineering is understood as an operating discipline rather than a prompt technique, the next question becomes practical: what is actually inside the harness? There is no single product called a logistics AI harness, and there probably should not be. The harness is the control architecture assembled around the model.
  Its purpose is to separate flexible reasoning from operational control. The model interprets ambiguity, synthesizes
  
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• The Warehouse Is Becoming an Orchestrated, Cyber-Physical System

  21-09-2026 19:30 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  The modern warehouse is becoming a cyber-physical system: software, inventory, labor, sensors, robotics, conveyors, docks, and transportation constraints increasingly operate as one connected execution environment. That framing is more useful than treating orchestration as a feature. The design question is how digital state and physical state remain synchronized closely enough for people and machines to coordinate work in real time. That evolution builds on the earlier observation that the WMS c
  
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• Trump-Xi in Washington: The Supply Chain Stakes Behind the Summit

  21-09-2026 15:40 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  When President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on September 24, most of the attention will be on geopolitics. For supply chain executives, however, the more important question is considerably more practical: will the meeting produce a more stable set of operating assumptions for global trade?Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet for their second summit of the year, with trade, tariffs, critical minerals, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, Taiwan and Iran among th
  
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• IFS Softeon Brings Industrial AI Deeper Into Warehouse Execution

  21-09-2026 15:09 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  The combination of IFS and Softeon is beginning to take shape as something more significant than another enterprise-software acquisition. IFS completed its acquisition of Softeon on March 2, 2026, bringing Softeon’s warehouse management, warehouse execution, and distributed order management capabilities into the broader IFS portfolio. The combined business is operating as IFS Softeon, with IFS positioning Industrial AI as an increasingly important layer connecting enterprise planning with
  
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• Make the Tradeoffs Explicit: Stakeholders, Constraints, and Competing Objectives

  21-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Logistics strategy is full of objectives that sound compatible until somebody has to make the operating decision. Lower cost, higher service, less inventory, greater resilience, faster response, and more flexibility are all desirable. The engineering work begins when two or three of them collide.
  The point is not that these decisions are impossible. It is that the tradeoffs exist whether the organization acknowledges them or not. Systems engineering makes them explicit. The transportation-wareho
  
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• OpenAI’s Misalignment Reports Point to the Next Enterprise AI Problem

  18-09-2026 11:10 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  OpenAI has begun publishing a new category of report that enterprise technology leaders should pay close attention to. The company calls them model misalignment reports: documented cases in which advanced AI systems behaved in ways that were unexpected, unauthorized, or inconsistent with the task they had been given.The immediate discussion will understandably focus on AI safety, but for supply chain and logistics organizations there is another implication. The enterprise AI problem is shifting
  
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• Intelligence Is Becoming Part of the Logistics Control Loop

  17-09-2026 14:57 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  The New Logistics Advantage — Part 2 of 9
  The first wave of enterprise AI was largely additive. Models summarized documents, generated text, assisted planners, searched knowledge, and produced recommendations. Useful capability was placed beside the existing operating model.
  The next wave is different. AI is beginning to enter the decision process itself. That shift is developed in the foundational AI in the Supply Chain architecture white paper and extended in AI in the Supply Chain: From
  
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• Salesforce Dreamforce Keynote: The Deterministic Layer Behind the Agentic Supply Chain

  17-09-2026 14:56 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  The most important supply chain message from the Salesforce Dreamforce keynote was not about a new model, chatbot, or even a new agent. It was about architecture.Enterprise AI is moving into a phase where probabilistic systems are being asked to act inside deterministic operating environments. That creates a fundamental problem for supply chains, where decisions may involve uncertainty but execution cannot. Inventory balances, shipment transactions, supplier approvals, purchase orders, user perm
  
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• May Mobility’s $1.4B SPAC Tests Asset-Light Autonomy

  17-09-2026 14:56 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  May Mobility is going public in a SPAC transaction that values the autonomous vehicle company at approximately $1.4 billion. The obvious story is the valuation. The more important logistics story is the operating model.May Mobility is attempting to separate autonomous intelligence from transportation assets. Its partners can own the vehicles, operate the depots, maintain the fleets and provide the customer interface, while May provides the autonomous driving system, software, remote assistance a
  
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• Harness Engineering in Logistics: Why Better Models Aren’t Enough

  17-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Harness Engineering in Logistics — Part 2 of 6
  When an AI system produces a poor result, the natural response is to blame the model. Change the prompt. Add more context. Move to the newest model. Increase the reasoning budget. Those interventions can improve performance, but they can also hide a more important problem: many logistics AI failures are not model failures at all.
  They are system failures. The model may reason correctly while receiving the wrong data, operating with incomplete
  
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• Fed Raises Rates for First Time Since 2023, Repricing Supply-Chain Capital

  16-09-2026 21:21 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  For the first time since July 2023, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates.The Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday increased its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%–4.00%, reversing the easing cycle that began in 2024. The move was unanimous and reflects renewed concern that inflation remains too high despite continued economic growth.For supply-chain leaders, the significance goes well beyond the headline rate. Higher interest rates increase the cos
  
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• Why Supply Chain Exceptions Are Becoming the Real Unit of Work

  16-09-2026 19:30 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Autonomous exception management is becoming easier to define by the work it owns than by the breadth of its feature list. In 2026, the category still has a recognizable core, but the value increasingly comes from what happens around that core: how operating state is shared, how decisions are coordinated, and how quickly the system can respond when conditions change. Buyers therefore need a definition based on the work the platform is accountable for, not on the longest possible list of capabilit
  
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• ALVEST Launches TLD Robotics Following EasyMile Acquisition

  16-09-2026 18:18 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  TLD Robotics combines EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD’s autonomous vehicle activities into a single business focused on autonomous ground operations for airports and industrial sites.ALVEST has launched TLD Robotics, a new business that brings together EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD’s existing driverless vehicle activities under a single organization.The announcement follows ALVEST’s acquisition of autonomous technology provider EasyMile and was made during GSE Expo Europe.TLD Robot
  
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• The $850 Billion Returns Problem: Why Reverse Logistics Is Becoming a Margin Engine

  16-09-2026 15:42 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Retailers have spent the last decade trying to make the forward supply chain faster.
  The next margin battle may be going the other way.
  The National Retail Federation projected that U.S. retail returns would reach $849.9 billion in 2025. Online return rates were expected to reach 19.3%. That is no longer an edge process hiding behind the loading dock. It is an economic system large enough to influence inventory, labor, transportation, fraud, customer loyalty, working capital, and ultimately marg
  
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• The Next Supply Chain Concentration Risk May Be the AI Model Itself

  16-09-2026 14:36 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Supply chains have spent decades trying to eliminate single points of failure.We dual-source critical components. We qualify alternate carriers. We diversify manufacturing footprints. We build redundant communications paths. We hold strategic inventory when the consequences of interruption justify it. Increasingly, we map sub-tier suppliers because the supplier we cannot see may be the one that shuts the network down.And now, just as artificial intelligence begins moving into the operational cor
  
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• The Hidden Infrastructure of Logistics: Why Cohesion Matters

  16-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Logistics has always depended on infrastructure. Warehouses, ports, transportation networks, roads, inventory systems and increasingly sophisticated software form the visible architecture through which goods move. But some of the most important logistics infrastructure is almost invisible.
  It exists between organizations, systems and decisions. It is the common understanding that allows a warehouse management system to exchange meaningful information with a transportation management system. It i
  
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• Singapore Logistics Market Outlook 2026-2034: Size, Share, Trends, Sector Growth and Forecast Report

  16-09-2026 08:33 via industrytoday.co.uk
  The Singapore logistics market size reached USD 27.5 Billion in 2025. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach USD 43.1 Billion by 2034, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 4.85% during 2026-2034.
  
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• Malaysia Last Mile Delivery Market Size to Reach USD 1,276.2 Million by 2034, Growing at a CAGR of 9.90%

  16-09-2026 08:22 via industrytoday.co.uk
  The Malaysia last mile delivery market size reached USD 532.0 Million in 2025. The market is projected to reach USD 1,276.2 Million by 2034, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 9.90% during 2026-2034.
  
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• Malaysia Cold Chain Logistics Market 2026: Industry to Reach USD 2,955.13 Mn by 2034, At CAGR of 12.8

  16-09-2026 08:05 via industrytoday.co.uk
  The Malaysia cold chain logistics market size was valued at USD 993.68 Million in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 2,955.13 Million by 2034, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 12.87% from 2026-2034.
  
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• Drone Warfare Is Exposing a New Critical-Minerals Logistics Problem

  15-09-2026 19:30 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Some of the most consequential logistics dependencies in the world are almost invisible. A container of steel is visible. A shipment of automobiles is visible. A tanker carrying oil is visible. Their scale makes their importance obvious.
  Germanium is different.
  The amount embedded in an individual system can be measured in grams. Yet germanium is used in technologies where losing access to a tiny quantity of material can prevent a much more valuable product from being manufactured at all. That i
  
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• Tesla’s Cybercab Is Really a Logistics Network

  15-09-2026 13:37 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  Tesla’s Cybercab is being treated as an autonomous-vehicle story. That misses what may become the more interesting problem. Building a vehicle that can drive itself is one challenge. Building a national operating network that can finance, charge, maintain, clean, stage, reposition, and continuously utilize hundreds of thousands of those vehicles is another.Tesla is beginning to acknowledge that distinction. The company is soliciting interest from potential partners in “Cybercab fleet
  
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• The AI Boom Is Becoming a Logistics Race

  15-09-2026 13:00 via logisticsviewpoints.com
  
  For most of the past four years, the artificial intelligence race has been described as a software race. Who has the best model? Who has the largest model? Who has the best benchmark scores? Which model can reason, code or use tools most effectively?
  Increasingly, those questions describe only the visible layer of the competition. Underneath the models is an enormous physical system: semiconductors, memory, networking equipment, servers, cooling systems, transformers, power generation, transmiss
  
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• Freight Forwarding Market to Reach USD 260 Billion by 2032 as AI, Ocean Trade and E-Commerce Reshape Global Logistics

  15-09-2026 09:18 via industrytoday.co.uk
  Global freight forwarding is shifting toward digital, data-led operations as ocean freight retains scale, air freight expands and Asia-Pacific accelerates.
  
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• India Adventure Tourism Market Size to Reach USD 88.46 Billion by 2034, Growing at 17.43% CAGR

  15-09-2026 09:13 via industrytoday.co.uk
  The India adventure tourism market reached USD 19.71 Billion in 2025 to USD 24.46 Billion in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 88.46 Billion by 2034, growing at a CAGR of 17.43% during 2026-2034.
  
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• India Refrigerated Trucks Market Size, Share, Key Trends, Growth Projection & Revenue Forecast 2026-2034

  15-09-2026 09:04 via industrytoday.co.uk
  India refrigerated trucks market size was valued at INR 8.51 Billion in 2025 and is projected to reach INR 28.58 Billion by 2034, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 14.41% from 2026-2034.
  
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