OpenGov speaks to Mr. Cyril Perducat, Executive Vice President Digital Services & IoT, Schneider Electric

In the first week of October, Prof. C. John Langley of Penn State University released his 22nd Annual Third-Party Logistics Study, which captures the state of the industry by surveying shipping and logistics professionals worldwide and conducting intensive workshops with industry leaders at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The study contains particularly useful findings for understanding the ever-growing role of data and analytics in the shipping and logistics industries and points to new opportunities that have so far been underexploited.

A subsidiary of the French electric utility company, EDF (mostly owned by the French state): Dalkia, leading company providing services in the Energy field, has chosen Geoconcept solution for optimizing schedules, Opti-time. Thanks to this tool, Dalkia aims to improve the field intervention of its technical team in France.

The promise of more data and better insights into customers is causing more FMCG brands to test direct-to-consumer models but few have found the recipe for success yet.

(Reuters) - If history is a guide, Uber Technologies new Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi is likely to dangle data sharing and a promise to pay fines and fees when he sits down with London officials to negotiate the ride service’s future in one of its most important markets.

GEOCONCEPT positioned in the field service management Magic Quadrant for its ability to execute and completeness of vision

This week SCM World launches the annual Future of Supply Chain survey.

To begin with, here are three long-range, contrarian predictions that should matter to supply chain professionals:

An algorithm to optimize school bus routes will save Boston Public Schools as much as $5 million after computer science and logistics experts competed in a 3 month hackathon won by a team from MIT's Operations Research Center. The challenge was similar to the NP-hard Travelling Salesman Problem.

TuSimple hits the road

Chinese startup TuSimple plans to test its fleet of self-driving commercial trucks in Arizona and Shanghai in 2018, leading up to the successful launch of a commercial autonomous trucking service in 2019. This move introduces another competitor in the self-driving race between giants like Tesla, Uber, and Waymo. These companies are all striving to transform the way we send, deliver, and receive commercial goods, and TuSimple’s technology and powerful financial backing make it a serious contender.