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The exchange of goods is growing worldwide in the course of globalisation and the logistics industry is an important reason for Europe-wide prosperity. Trade and transport routes are reliably mastered and therefore also stand for global economic networking. However, logistics and transport not only cause prosperity, but also CO2. With a share of 23 percent of global CO2 emissions, the transport and logistics sector bears a special responsibility in the fight against climate change (IPCC, Working Group III Report, May 2007).

Over the last years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a mainstream topic—seemingly omnipresent as a solution to complex problems. The availability of AI-based analytics and the many examples of the power of AI have contributed to this hype. Artificial Intelligence is now available to everyone.

This slogan may seem a bit trite by now, but in terms of logistics and global supply chains it is indispensable when it comes to making shipping goods from A to B more sustainable. In the fight for a more sustainable and climate friendly economy, people are now not only skipping school on Fridays, but are also looking for intelligent and innovative technologies and solutions.

In a previously unheard move, more and more companies are answering the supply chain crisis by building up their own logistics capabilities which might fuel the need for modern supply chain software products.

Everyone has supply chain data, but not everyone has the right type of data or the right quality of data, for the purpose they want. In an increasingly digitized world, the data availability and quality, are somewhat improving, but the complexity to extract the right set of data has increased.

Supply chain of any business is a well-articulated network which includes all the activities and facilities of the business involved in delivering, producing, developing and sourcing products...

This month we had the opportunity to speak with Gabriel Rozenberg, CEO and co-founder of London based Cbamboo. We talked about his company, the EU's CBAM and what it means for importers of affected goods.

In this month's interview we asked Ofir Bronhaim, VP of Digital Supply Chain at Grain, 8 questions about his company. Based out of Israel, Grain offers embedded cross-currency solutions.

In this month's interview we asked Ksenia Duarte 10 questions about her company ex9. Based out of France, ex9 is a service provider for unmanned, eco-friendly terminal transportation tasks.

In this month's interview we asked Leon Ge Dongliang 10 questions about his company tocco, a Paris based B2B marketplace for low-carbon and regenerative materials.

Every month we interview a European supply chain management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European supply chain management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Dr. Wolfgang Hackenberg, CEO of SYNAOS, a promising intralogistics software company based in Hannover, Germany.

Every month we interview a European Supply Chain Management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European Supply Chain Management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Harald Nitschinger, CEO & Co-Founder at Prewave, a supply chain visibility and risk monitoring platform headquartered in Vienna, Austria.