Guest: Fab Brasca of Kinaxis on who is leading in AI adoption; The top five freight bottlenecks; ...

Our guest on this week's episode is Fab Brasca, senior vice president of market strategy at Kinaxis. The use of artificial intelligence is growing and its potential impacts on supply chains might be practically limitless. But how fast should companies move on adopting these technologies – and who is way ahead of the pack in implementing AI? Ben Ames answers these questions with today’s guest. Our supply chains are supposed to be in motion to be efficient, yet a lot of the time our freight is stuck in neutral due to road congestion. The American Transportation Research Institute published its annual ranking of the country’s worst freight bottlenecks this week. Find out where the worst bottleneck in America is snarling traffic. This week we learned about a new cybersecurity threat to worry about, and this comes from a brand new technology called quantum computing. In fact, this technology is no new that it’s really still in development, not in the markets yet. But that isn’t stopping hackers from using it already, as cyber-adversaries are harvesting companies’ encrypted data now even though they can’t open those files, because they plan to decrypt it on a future date, once quantum computing becomes powerful enough Supply Chain Xchange  also offers a podcast series called Supply Chain in the Fast Lane.  It is co-produced with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. The latest series is now available on Top Threats to our Supply Chains. It covers topics including Geopolitical Risks, Economic Instability, Cybersecurity Risks, Threats to energy and electric grids; Supplier Risks, and Transportation Disruptions  Go to your favorite podcast platform to subscribe and to listen to past and future episodes. The podcast is also available at www.thescxchange.com (https://www.thescxchange.com/) . Articles and resources mentioned in this episode: • Kinaxis (https://www.kinaxis.com/en) • Chicago is home to the nation’s top freight bottleneck (https://www.dcvelocity.com/editorial/...) • Report: Hackers collect data today and will crack it tomorrow with quantum tech (https://www.dcvelocity.com/tech-infra...) • Visit DC Velocity (https://www.dcvelocity.com/) • Visit Supply Chain Xchange (https://www.supplychainquarterly.com/) • Listen to CSCMP and Supply Chain Xchange's Supply Chain in the Fast Lane podcast (https://www.supplychainquarterly.com/...) • Send feedback about this podcast to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) This podcast episode is sponsored by: Werner (https://www.werner.com/freight-quote/) Other links • About DC VELOCITY (https://www.dcvelocity.com/about) • Subscribe to DC VELOCITY (https://www.dcvelocity.com/subscribe) • Sign up for our FREE newsletters (https://www.dcvelocity.com/user/new) • Advertise with DC VELOCITY (https://agilebusinessmedia.com/dcv)