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Oracle adds agentic applications for inventory, supplier and production decisions

Manufacturers seek tariff exemptions where domestic supply is unavailable

Velo3D and Mears Machine expand distributed advanced-manufacturing capacity

Oracle adds agentic AI applications for supply chain workflows

ATLANT 3D, A*STAR IMRE and NAMIC Partner on AI-Driven Materials Discovery

South Korea launches a $576 billion AI-chip and semiconductor capacity drive

South Korean groups commit $195 billion to AI, robotics and advanced manufacturing

Jean-François Nordmann joins o9 Solutions to support its expansion in France

Achilles acquires Cm3 to extend supplier and contractor risk intelligence into APAC

Haizol launches HaiBot, an agentic AI system for manufacturing sourcing

LG adds an 80%-automated glass-powder line and a second production base in Vietnam

ASML capacity plan highlights the physical bottleneck behind AI demand

Australia and India elevate cooperation on cyber, critical technologies and Supply Chains

Micron backs domestic silicon-wafer capacity with financing and a ten-year agreement

Queensland funds a new regional manufacturing hub in Maryborough

Shyam Steel opens its first international manufacturing facility in Sharjah

Standard Motor Products forms Thailand sensor-manufacturing joint venture

Micron breaks ground on ¥1.5 trillion Hiroshima HBM expansion

East West Manufacturing acquires Vexos

Vertiv opens Malaysian manufacturing facility for AI and high-density infrastructure

Compri raises €3.2 million to expand autonomous procurement agents

Cirba Solutions urges stronger domestic critical-mineral supply chains

Qualcomm explores custom chip-design services for ByteDance

Canadian Solar gains traceability certification for ingot and cell production

Brimstone and Century Aluminum plan a US mine-to-metal aluminium supply chain

Descartes adds auditable carrier-selection workflows to MyCarrierPortal

EcoVadis publishes reliability framework for supplier carbon data

NVIDIA-backed factory upgrade expands AI-component manufacturing in Texas

Clear Robotics raises $1.75 million to scale AI-enabled autonomous vessels

Coupa acquires Scoutbee to strengthen AI-powered supplier intelligence

Senior NPI Sourcing and Supply Chain Program Manager, AWS Power & Cooling

EVENT: AIM 2026 concludes its programme on AI in materials and manufacturing

EVENT: Farnborough opens with AI defence systems and aerospace capacity constraints in focus

REGULATION: US order expands defense-supplier risk assessment and domestic sourcing obligations

EVENT: ISS Japan concludes with economic-security and semiconductor-resilience sessions

EVENT: AMTS 2026 opens in Shanghai

EVENT: AI addresses hidden costs in component sourcing

WARNING: Yossi Sheffi identifies electricity availability as an underestimated Supply Chain risk

Bilateral trusted-Supply-Chain policies need product-level qualification rules

Additive-manufacturing resilience depends on qualification throughput

HBM supply is a qualification and packaging problem, not only a fab-capacity problem

Long-term semiconductor agreements shift risk upstream to yield and qualification

Tariff exemptions expose the difference between available and qualified supply

Regional manufacturing support must be tied to order-winning capability

Defense Supply Chain AI must explain the supplier action, not only the risk score

Semiconductor revenue signals must be separated from usable capacity

Semiconductor security policy needs dependency-level capacity models

The semiconductor supercycle creates allocation decisions beyond the chipmakers

Regional metals manufacturing depends on the reverse Supply Chain

Component resilience decisions belong before production release

Chinese companies are diversifying suppliers while increasing AI investment

Procurement AI is advancing faster than multi-tier supplier evidence

AI’s role in building more sustainable supply chains

Experiment: Build a Supply Chain as a Service company with OpenOPC

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Jean-François Nordmann