China is seeing growth in Supply Chain Chiefs in their effort to remain a global leader in technology.

Local governments across China are rushing to appoint their own “supply chain chiefs”, a new title emerging as part of a quasi-military command system for corporate governance in an effort to add some muscle to local support of Beijing’s self-sufficiency drive amid a protracted trade rivalry with the US.

According to Information Week, companies are turning to CIOs to ensure that their supply chain will withstand future global disruptors.

COVID-19 wreaked havoc on supply chains worldwide. Now, as enterprises continue restoring operations to pre-pandemic levels, business leaders have started assessing the damage and planning for the future.

One company could simplify the rare mineral supply chain, reports Forbes.

By now, anyone who has been paying much attention to the whole discussion around the ‘energy transition’ likely knows that the battery technology that exists and must continue to advance to enable it to happen requires massive quantities of an array of minerals with names like lithium, cobalt, manganese and nickel.

GS1 US has published a new implementation guideline for the grocery and foodservice industries, advising how extended product data can be captured using Electronic Product Code-enabled/Radio Frequency Identification (EPC/RFID).