The first quarter of 2026 saw supply market resource announcements to note focusing on cyber risk, human rights, enhanced predictive capabilities, the evolution of foundation models, and collaborations in the logistics space. Below are examples.
Procurement and Supply Chain Risk
- Cyber risk intelligence provider, Bitsight, announced Dark Web Intelligence for Supply Chains, a new capability that delivers real-time visibility into emerging threat activity to reveal which vendors and vulnerabilities are being targeted or have been breached.
- Supply chain risk management data provider, apexanalytix, launched Risk Response Agent to automate third-party risk detection. Its recent report reveals “while quantum computing is still emerging…risks to encrypted supplier data, contracts, pricing models, and compliance records are already materializing.”
- Software supply chain security provider, NetRis, launched NetRis Provenance, a new product that “identifies risk associated with contributors to the open source components inside enterprise software and connected devices, and how far the risk reaches across portfolios.”
- RapidRatings launched RiskPulse, powered by Creditsafe, replacing its long-tail monitoring solution, HealthMark. “Supply chain professionals consistently reported the long-tail solutions on the market weren’t cutting it…So, we developed one that goes deeper, faster, and broader in coverage.”
- AI Supply chain provider, Exiger, launched forcedlabor.ai, a no-cost, open access website that enables users to investigate potential links between a company or its supply chain and state-sponsored forced labor.
- The Human Rights Foundation launched the Tyranny Tracker, an index that classifies the world’s countries and territories as democratic, hybrid authoritarian, or fully authoritarian. It uses 45 indicators categorized into three thematic pillars: electoral competition, freedom of dissent, and institutional accountability.
Collaborations in Logistics Space
- U.S. Bank and DAT Freight & Analytics are collaborating on a new quarterly research report that complements the existing U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index. The U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index – Rates Edition focuses on contract rates, spot rates and fuel surcharges using DAT data and analytics.
- Dun & Bradstreet and FedEx Dataworks are collaborating to create new data and analytics solutions, starting with the Retail Momentum Index. The Index will integrate FedEx’s surface and air shipping data with Dun & Bradstreet’s maritime shipping volumes and container delays data and business activity signals.
Predictive Capabilities and Enhancements: Spotlight on Agriculture and Resource Management
- First-mile ag & soft commodities intelligence provider, Treefera, launched Market Intelligence, which delivers yield and production area forecasts. In Dec 2025, Treefera’s forecast of U.S. corn yield at 187.6 bushels per acre was within 1% of the final figure and four weeks ahead of consensus (USDA at 186.5).
- Ecolab launched the Water Navigator IQ, which builds on the Smart Water Navigator. Enhancements include AI-enabled predictive risk notifications, geospatial mapping to visualize site risk across markets, site-specific water-related nature dependency scores, and water use efficiency benchmarking.
- SGS and food safety analytics provider, Agrogrow, are combining to create SGS Nexus. The new product will help food companies move from reactive compliance to predictive risk management by monitoring regulatory changes and identifying emerging safety risks.
Foundation Models Moving Vertical
- Perplexity recently launched Perplexity Health, which connects a user’s medical records, lab results, and wearable device metrics into a single platform and answers health questions based on the data. Perplexity joins other recent launches, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Microsoft’s Copilot Health.
- Anthropic launched 11 open source knowledge work plugins to Claude Cowork, providing a customized tool for specific roles, such as marketing, finance, bio research, and legal. Concerning legal (and financial) software, the announcement did not land softly but instead triggered a strong market reaction.
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March 27, 2026
