Apple Pay adoption show no signs of abating, with an estimated 43% of iPhone users across the globe enabling the mobile-payments service, says Loup Ventures LLC in a research note released Tuesday. That’s up from 36% in September and 20% in December 2017.

Counterfeit electronics remain the bane of the electronics industry. Fake parts create safety hazards, siphon off profits, and tarnish corporate images.

E-commerce company, Amazon, has announced that it plans to make half of all its shipments carbon neutral by 2030. Amazon has named the project ‘Shipment Zero’ and plans to publish its carbon footprint for the first time later this year.

Ideas about what the customer experience involves—and whose responsibility it is to make sure it’s exemplary—haven’t evolved at the same rapid pace as business. Indeed, plenty of companies still equate customer experience only with customer service, believing that it’s sufficient to have savvy marketing and friendly customer service agents to professionally field calls and emails from important clients.

Throughout the year, organizations must overcome countless supply chain-related challenges, many of which directly affect customer experience, sales, and revenue. With unprecedented competition, demanding customer expectations, and a fear of failure, retailers and electronics manufacturers need to make a change.

Technology is evolving across every business, allowing companies to become more productive and efficient. Whether it’s the food takeaway industry utilising mobile apps or sports events using video-assisted refereeing, technological advances are helping our world progress and become better.

Today’s business-to-business (B2B) buyers are researching, evaluating, and coming to conclusions about companies without a single contact with a team member or salesperson.

As the largest nonprofit association for supply chain, ASCM is an unbiased partner, connecting companies around the world to the newest insights on all aspects of supply chain within one source.

Excitement about 5G, the fifth generation of mobile network technology, has been building steadily. The long process of rolling out 5G networks is already underway and we should see some limited availability this year. Now, 5G brings a lot of potential benefits, but one of the key questions that immediately crops up in any discussion about it is: How fast is 5G?

How next-generation 5G data is going to change everything. The next generation of wireless data communications is called 5G because it succeeds 4G, 3G, and older protocols.

Automation and the manufacturing/production industries are no strangers; they’ve been bosom buddies since the 1970s and have been quietly reshaping business for almost half a century.

In just a matter of months, this new e-commerce fraud has emerged to exploit weak or non-existent links between merchants’ online and physical stores.

CNBC has recently revealed that Amazon is to start penalising sellers who go against its safety standards when sending shipments to its warehouses. Forming part of its productivity and efficiency drive, the penalties will seek to enforce regulations around packages containing hazardous substances, such as aerosols or electrical products.

Every December, industry pundits peer into their crystal balls and predict the megatrends that will shape the future of just about everything, including the $12 trillion manufacturing industry. While there may be a wide variety of opinions, there probably would be consensus that transformative digital technologies are poised to forever change how products are designed, made and delivered to customers around the world.

As we head into 2019, the global transportation industry will continue to face complex supply chain challenges. But the new year also provides many opportunities for shippers to turn to technologies and digital transformation to improve their operations, efficiencies, and bottom line profits.

“Every manufacturer feels like, ‘We’ve got to at least have a dog in this hunt or we’ll be completely left behind.’”

The global smart manufacturing market is booming, expected to grow over 15% annually for the next five years, reaching almost $480 billion by 2023.

Overused brakes. Stalled Food packaging, And outsized Insurance. These are a few of the issues artificial intelligence looks solve as it transforms the biggest industries.

In today’s instant-gratification world, consumers consider “almost right” completely wrong.

OSHA has been addressing the issue of robot safety for more than 30 years.