2023年6月14日

FreightWaves点击关闭产品启动物流管理/能见度软件市场预期到2028年将达到$ 39 b星期三,2023年6月14日,可靠的全球供应链网络数据等关键导航中断当前的旱灾影响容器卷通过巴拿马运河。(照片:巴拿马运河管理局)坚持通过中断等干旱影响集装箱船巴拿马运河的交通,以及未来的危机,包括建立信任网络的数据绘制出全球供应链,Altana技术官员说。Altana是一个总部位于纽约的公司利用人工智能和数以亿计的数据点从海关当局,世界各地的物流提供商和企业全球供应链网络的创建一个地图。“想想Altana作为全球供应链的谷歌地图,”埃文·史密斯,Altana首席执行官兼联合创始人,告诉FreightWaves。“情况就像在巴拿马,Altana实际上是巴拿马运河的上游是很有用的。我们是非常有用的理解对于任何给定的组织他们的全球多层网络实际上是什么样子的漏洞和瓶颈。”今年1月,巴拿马运河管理局(ACP)实施节水措施,维护能力在运河的水库。6月6日的权威开始限制的草稿运河的船只。“干旱将影响水的可用性在巴拿马和在全球范围内,“机场核心计划在最近的一次新闻发布会上说。“运河是实现操作和规划过程,创新技术,和长期投资来减轻其影响,维护其操作。”史密斯说Altana提供公司覆盖数据的能力,比如气候变化对他们的供应链模型地图,帮助企业缓解潜在的瓶颈与干旱和其它与天气有关的事件有关。 “You can look at the scenarios of in this case, drought, and say there’s a chokepoint in the network with a drought risk overlaid on top of it,” Smith said. “There might be something a company might do on the network design level to build a more resilient network, make sure they have trade lanes that aren’t going through a single chokepoint.” Altana operates in the supply chain visibility/intelligence space, which has shown resilience in venture capital investments compared with other parts of the tech sector in recent quarters. Venture capital funding has slowed to a crawl over the past several quarters, with overall venture-backed companies attracting about $11.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $71 billion during the same quarter in 2022, according to PitchBook. In October, Altana landed a $100 million Series B fund raise, which the company is using to expand its platform and products. Altana’s clients already include Maersk, BMW, Boston Scientific, Merck and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Other supply chain visibility firms recently securing funding include Overhaul and Unity SCM , which secured $73 million and $8 million, respectively, in May. The global supply chain management software market in 2022 was valued at about $22 billion and is expected to increase to $39.7 billion by 2028, according to a recent report from ResearchAndMarkets.com . Not all FreightTech visibility firms have been immune to the economic downturn. Global supply chain visibility provider project44 eliminated about 10% of its global workforce in May. Officials at project44 said the restructuring was part of cost cutting as venture capital investors become more cautious. Smith said Altana’s mission isn’t just to provide firms with a map of their supply chain. It’s to provide an operating picture of companies and their global product flows. “The other key dimension of this map or knowledge graph is ownership. You can actually see from the shell company, the trading company, the movement of goods, and then trace those all the way up to the parent companies attached to them,” Smith said. “It’s this bottom-up view of what we think is roughly half today of the global supply chain flows at the transaction level, and then add a lot of machine learning on top of that data to kind of further enrich and build out the network understanding.” Smith said everyone should care about the global supply chain and how it affects societies. “If you care about climate change, if you care about wealth inequality, if you care about national security, pick almost anything, it’s probably going to be a supply chain issue at the end of the day,” he said. Watch: Startups continuing to struggle to find financial footing.