Topic: Cloud

Industry experts illustrate the six key benefits of a supply chain built off integrated solutions and how companies use them to extract the maximum efficiency from their existing assets.

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Emerge, a provider of its proprietary Digital Freight Marketplace (DFM) and TMS focused on accelerating productivity and increasing visibility for supply chain stakeholders and freight procurement, recently announced it raised $130 million in a Series B funding round.

The company said that this was done by entering into a definitive business combination agreement with G Squared Ascend I Inc., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by affiliates of G Squared, a growth-stage venture capital fund manager with a technology sector focus. This expected is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, with the combined company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under “TF.”

Blume officials said that this round of investment values Blume Global at $500 million, with Bridgeport joining funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and EQT as equity investors in the company.

The company said that through this partnership project44 will become the first strategic partner for real-time transportation visibility to integrate its capabilities into the Google Cloud Supply Chain Twin offering—which optimizes planning and decision-making by orchestrating supply chain data from enterprise business systems, partners, and public sources and enables shippers to bring together data from multiple sources and require less partner integration time than traditional API-based integration—and is a major cog of the Google Supply Chain platform.

TrueCommerce officials said that by bringing DiCentral into the fold, it helps the company to expand its global network, add to its solutions portfolio, and also grow its geographic footprint. What’s more, the company added that this deal further augments TrueCommerce’s position as a leader in the digital supply chain collaboration and connectivity sector.

Chicago-based third-party logistics and technology-enabled transportation services provider Echo Global Logistics announced late last week it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global private equity firm The Jordan Company for $48.25 per share, with an equity value of roughly $1.3 billion.

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Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes, a provider of logistics based on-demand, software-as-a-service offerings, recently announced it acquired Orlando, Fla.-based GreenMile, a provider of cloud-based mobile route execution services for food, beverage, and broader distribution verticals.

With 92% of companies already using the Cloud, the race is on to get even more supply chain management solutions into this convenient, accessible and affordable delivery model.

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Here’s how the global pandemic put a charge in the push to digitize, mobilize and automate the world’s supply chains. According to our analysts, end-to-end visibility is now table stakes.

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Earlier this week, Oracle introduced new updates to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, which connects shippers’ supply networks with an integrated suite of cloud business applications.

An overall push into the Cloud—along with the development of more flexible, scalable software—is making more logistics operations rethink their warehouse management software delivery options.

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专注于helpi甲骨文公司已经推出了新的更新ng shippers augment global supply chain efficiencies in its Oracle Fusion Cloud Global Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) suit offering, which connects shippers’ supply networks with an integrated suite of cloud business applications. Oracle officials said that the updates are for subsets in Oracle Fusion Cloud Global SCM—Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) and Oracle Global Trade Management (GTM)—and are geared towards helping shippers reduce costs, make better planning decisions, and improve customer...