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Working perspectives on supply chain data: how it moves, why it degrades, what to build instead.

Article18 April 2026

Evaluating your suppliers' data infrastructure

Procurement rarely evaluates the data infrastructure behind supplier information. Six questions surface what a weak supplier data setup actually costs.

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Keeping supplier product data current

Supplier product data falls out of date as soon as a static document is sent. A maintained record read at the point of use keeps the data current.

LinkXG17 April 2026

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Structured supplier data and AI adoption in supply chains

AI adoption in supply chain operations is limited by the shape of supplier data. Four properties describe the structure a model can actually read.

David Howe16 April 2026

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Verifiable supplier data on demand

Only 18% of organisations are very confident in supplier-reported data. The cause is the exchange shape, which changes when data is published and retrieved.

LinkXG15 April 2026

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Upstream data in electronics manufacturing supply chains

Electronics contract manufacturers run a separate traceability workflow for every OEM customer. Shared upstream data removes the re-collection cycle.

David Howe13 April 2026

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Seven principles of supply chain data sharing

Seven principles describe what supply chain data sharing demands, and why existing infrastructure falls short of them.

David Howe1 March 2026

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Why we built LinkXG

Supply chain data sharing degrades with every exchange. LinkXG is infrastructure that lets companies share product data once, with every trading partner.

David Howe10 February 2026

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