We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. This 2016 supply chain trend will continue as best-in-class organizations leverage business networks to create a digital community of partners executing coordinated processes in a more organized and informed way than in the past. This new breed of supply chain is more connected, intelligent, scalable and rapid than traditional supply chain management. In today's global and connected economy, digital supply chains are the on-ramp to innovation and success.

If you'd like to read more about the awesome potential of machine learning, check out the article in the link below: The era of globalization has brought about both advantages and disadvantages. With the variety of cutting-edge technology available at the UA Lighthouse, the company wants to develop best practices for all of its products that are made domestically and abroad. To hear more about what the industry is saying about the UK's recent decision, check out the article in the link below: In the past few years, there's been a greater and greater focus on autonomous cars and commercial vehicles. At the recent Autonomous Ship Technology Symposium 2016 in Amsterdam, Rolls Royce released a white paper that details how autonomous freight ships are technically and economically feasible.

Genpact (NYSE: G), a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, today launched its Neural Intelligence Platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence technologies, and brings middle and back office processing to the same level of digital automation as the front office to drive seamless customer journeys. Using a cognitive system powered by natural language processing, machine and deep learning techniques, the platform provides a versatile artificial intelligence-based capability that digitizes many business process solutions, including omni-channel management, contact center, account payable query management, and financial and accounting automation. The platform is the result of more than a decade of research and development in high performance business processing practices, recently crystallized into digital solutions through an aggressive build out of advanced technologies including robotic process automation, natural language processing, and machine learning. The platform also leverages Genpact's unique Lean DigitalSM approach that harnesses the combined power of process-centric technologies, design thinking, and deep domain expertise.

The company's expertise is in natural language processing -- letting computers analyze relationships between words. "With MetaMind and Salesforce coming together, we'll be able to offer customers real AI solutions with breakthrough capabilities that further automate and personalize customer support, marketing automation, and many other business processes," MetaMind CEO Richard Socher said. The acquisition will see MetaMind, whose backers included Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, embed deep learning within the Salesforce platform. Meanwhile, Microsoft Dynamics CRM got AI-powered predictive marketing capabilities in March through integration with EverString's platform.