According to Supply and Demand Chain Executive, the focus for supply chain leaders is the investment in circular economy strategies. 

Seventy percent of supply chain leaders are planning to invest in the circular economy in the next 18 months, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. However, only 12% of those have linked their digital and circular economy strategies so far.

Retail technology is focusing on the supply chain, reports Forbes.

The focus of retail technology now is on supply chain. Rob Armstrong of Zebra Technologies put it perfectly when he told me, “we are focused on ...four key questions: What is it? Where is it? How is it? What are you going to do about it?”

The fashion industry is responding to consumers desire to have transparency in the supply chain, reports Green Biz. 

With close to 80 percent of consumers believing that it is important for brands to disclose and provide transparency into their supply chains, from raw materials to garment (PDF), fashion brands are clearly in need of a more sustainable way to manage their many hard-to-trace production facilities. 

The coronavirus outbreak could adversely affect US Tech firms, reports Fox Business.

The debt-ratings agency Fitch warned Tuesday that U.S. technology firms could suffer lasting harm from the coronavirus outbreak.