Supply Chain

Microsoft backs Anthropic, urging judge to halt Pentagon's actions against AI company

Microsoft, in a legal filing, is challenging Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's action last week to shut Anthropic out of military work by labelling its AI products as a national security threat.

Middle East tensions raise supply chain, logistics cost concerns for India Inc

While fears around a complete shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz primarily raise concerns around oil prices and energy security, recent history shows that even partial disruptions or security threats along key sea routes can quickly spill over into freight inflation, longer transit times and working capital stress for exporters and importers.

Cholamandalam to scale back fintech, supply-chain financing

The move will curb the AUM growth to 20-23% this fiscal from the previously projected 25-30%, president and CFO Arul Selvan has said

Sridhar Vembu's blueprint against global disruption calls for '5-10 year sprint' towards deep tech

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu's other suggestion revolves around discouraging India's brightest talent from going into finance, as an India 'addicted' to this could lead to 'societal ruin'.

Speciale Invest raises Rs 600 crore for third fund to boost India’s deep-tech and sovereign-tech sectors

The fund close comes amid growing investor interest in India’s deep-tech sector, fueled by strong policy support, shifts in global supply chains, and an expanding pool of commercially astute technical founders.

P&G's Shailesh Jejurikar stares at supply chain challenges and tariff barriers, as Street hopes for sales growth to sustain

Tariff pressures have emerged at a time when P&G is undertaking a new two-year restructuring program to trim non-manufacturing roles, after reporting six consecutive years of +4% organic sales growth.

President Trump and the unhappiness of the supply chain strategist

Supply chain managers worldwide have faced multiple disruptions in the past decade, from the COVID-19 pandemic to geopolitical conflicts. However, the unpredictability brought by Donald Trump’s second term, with rapid tariff threats and trade wars, has created unprecedented challenges

Building a Resilient Supply Chain: The road map for India’s critical minerals

India is late in sourcing critical minerals but it has covered a lot of ground

Davos 2025: India's stable policies and democracy will help attract investments under new Trump administration, says Raghuram Rajan

Every state must expand jobs wherever they can because that will give confidence to consumption, Rajan said

Trump 2.0: India poised to leverage comparative advantage amid shifting global trade and supply chains

India stands to benefit, particularly in sectors like pharmaceuticals, textiles, and electronics, which are positioned to capture value as companies look to diversify away from China, a State Bank of India (SBI) report said.

Wheelocity pivots from B2B supply chain to B2C fresh commerce delivery with new funding

Along with the pivot, the firm has also announced raising $15 million in a mix of debt and equity led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Foxconn to construct world's largest Nvidia superchip factory

Foxconn is building the world's largest Nvidia GB200 chip manufacturing facility to help meet "awfully huge" demand for the AI darling's Bl.

Ontario Teachers, Bain Capital, Advent, others line up to back Mintifi in $100-million round

The deal hinges on the valuation the supply-chain financing platform is offered. The talks come at a time when large-ticket deals, $100 million and above, are making a comeback in the Indian startup scene

Will Union Budget 2024 up the stakes in the global value chain gamble?

Lowering import tariffs and a host of other measures can help enhance India’s GVC participation

HUL turns to AI to make supply chain more agile, efficient

In an interview to Moneycontrol, HUL's executive director, supply chain, Yogesh Mishra discusses the company's strategic focus on rapid changeovers, utilisation of nano factories for smaller batch production, and implementation of AI for stock keeping, predciting supplies and prices

Red Sea crisis impacting supply chain, expect recovery in coming months: Audi India Head

Red Sea issues affect Audi's supply chain, delaying car deliveries to India in Q1; recovery anticipated in the following months.

Supply Chains: Canals aren’t even the world's biggest shipping chokepoints

Five thousand miles from the canals of Suez and Panama lie even more important shipping lanes, chokepoints that could cripple global trade should any disaster befall them

Adani Total Gas signs pact with Shigan to decarbonise supply chain

The pact is aimed at adopting natural gas for transportation for fleet operators, including those deployed by Adani Group companies in sectors like cement, ports and logistics

Short Call | Supply chain in Red Sea blues; SpiceJet bid for bankrupt GoFirst; Siemens power split; pharma booster dose

After the Ukraine-Russia conflict, came the Israel-Gaza war, and now the focus is on the Red Sea shipping crisis. It could be the first signs of supply chain disruption

No delay expected in Maruti Suzuki's 2025 EV entry due to low penetration: Chairman RC Bhargava

Bhargava also revealed that it was one of the first automakers which started focussing on EVs by developing the electric variant of WagonR hatchback. However, it didn’t commercially roll out the e-WagonR because the company didn’t find it a “viable proposition”