Marina Ivanov, co-founder and CEO, Apex Transit Solutions, was named the overall winner of the Rising Stars category for this year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum™ award.

With the transaction complete, Intelligrated, Trew and Transnorm now operate under one organization, providing warehouse automation solutions for retail, e-commerce, manufacturing, distribution and parcel operations.

The new shipper was engineered to operate across refrigerated, controlled room temperature and frozen.

The gap between the number planned for and the number you actually pay is where profit quietly disappears.

Procurement intelligence isn’t about having perfect information. It’s about building the habit of asking “what could go wrong with this supplier, this shipment, this timeline?” early enough that the answer is a plan—not a panic call.

Procurement teams have full accountability for supplier risk but lack the connected systems or validated, current data needed to get ahead of it.