Using technology like artificial intelligence and analytics can help semiconductor companies keep the supply chain flowing, reports CNBC.

Businesses and consumers have been grappling with supply chain issues for months, resulting in annoying shortages of all kinds of products, including all-important semiconductor chips.

According to the Hill, the best way to keep the supply chain moving is to automate as much of it as a business can.

This fall a huge supply-chain story dropped as quietly as a tree in the middle of the woods:

Using 3D printers to manufacture critical hardware is one way to lessen reliance on the supply chain, reports Tech Crunch.

In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries