GS1 US® has appointed the following executives to its Board of Governors: John S. Phillips, senior vice president, customer supply chain and go-to-market, PepsiCo, Inc.; Randall J. Skoda, president and CEO, Topco Associates LLC; and Steve Breen, senior vice president, enterprise inventory optimization, Walmart. Additionally, long-standing GS1 US Board of Governor members, John Inwright, president and chief executive officer, Wendy’s Quality Supply Chain Co-op, Inc. and Dr. Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce, chief executive officer of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada, have been appointed chair and vice chair, respectively.

According to Tech Wire Asia, companies that embrace technology will make it through the Covid crisis. 

When business continuity becomes severely threatened by the extraordinary circumstances facing the manufacturing sector in a post-COVID-19 reality, businesses that can rapidly adapt to embracing data-led technologies stand a good chance at separating themselves from their competitors.

According to DC Velocity, supply chain visibility platform FourKites has added features to help keep supply chain communication flowing during Covid, but also to make it more safe. 

FourKites, the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, announced a string of new collaborative features to facilitate and simplify communication across the end-to-end supply chain, while also reducing human contact to decrease the risk of virus transmission to front-line workers.