Descartes lanserar MacroPoint OpsForce, en svit av AI-agenter som automatiserar sändningsspårning och avvikelsehantering i transporter i Descartes plattform Global Logistics Network (GLN) …

The retail sector has significant potential to reduce its costs while also lowering its environmental impact. A new report from Svensk Handel shows that changes to packaging and delivery solutions can cut costs by up to 88 percent in the part of the value chain where goods are delivered to retail warehouses …

Swedish e-commerce grew by a total of 7 percent in the first quarter of the year despite global uncertainty, and exports are driving this growth. As many as 60 percent of the companies surveyed in PostNord’s latest E-barometer report that they sell to customers outside Sweden, and the number of export packages shipped increased by 23 percent during the quarter …

AI has long been a part of the supply chain—in the form of forecasting models, optimization algorithms, and automated decision-support systems. But over the past two years, this has changed. With the emergence of so-called agent-based AI, the technology has taken a clear step from analysis to action. “The big difference now is that AI doesn’t just answer questions or provide recommendations. It takes action,” says Emma Karlsson, Industry Lead Solution Engineer and Nordic AI Champion at Oracle, in an interview with SCE …

Inretrn, a Borås-based company that has developed a post-purchase platform for e-commerce retailers, is raising nearly 100 million kronor from the Norwegian software investor Viking Growth to ensure continued product development and international expansion …

Paulig is electrifying a 415-kilometer transport route on Sweden’s west coast in partnership with Einride, a well-known and rapidly growing Swedish scale-up in the field of electrified transport. The initiative is expected to reduce emissions by approximately 430 tons of CO₂ per year …

Project44 – en av de globala ledarna av Realtime Transportation Visibility Platforms – lanserade denna vecka ”Autopilot”, en plattform som låter transportörer, speditörer och 3PL-bolag driftsätta AI-agenter i sina leveransflöden utan att behöva skriva prompter, bygga integrationer eller anlita teknikspecialister. Satsningen uppges ha kostat över en miljard dollar och är resultatet av en 18 månaders driftsättning av AI-agenter i project44s globala nätverk …

När USA:s högsta domstol i februari upphävde Donald Trumps tullar svarade den amerikanska administrationen med att införa nya tullar, ovanpå de gamla. Nu har dock USA:s federala handelsdomstol – Court of International Trade – beslutat att president Trump och hans administration inte hade befogenhet att införa nya globala tullar efter högsta domstolens beslut i februari …

Enligt en studie av Gartner används AI än så länge endast i begränsad omfattning för att driva förändring i företags processer och arbetsflöden. I samband med Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/XPO i Orlando 4-6 maj konstaterades att orsaken till detta är ett antal utmaningar som försvårar och begränsar möjligheterna att införa AI. I Gartners studie om …

There is no doubt that AI is the most significant transformative technology of our time. Nor is there any doubt that various forms of artificial intelligence are already delivering benefits across many industries and work processes—not least in supply chain and logistics. However, the implementation and use of AI vary greatly across different areas of the supply chain. And even where AI has been implemented, it is often difficult to realize the expected benefits and business value. …