Planning

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times of crisis

Planning, Trends

Better planning in times of crisis

The coronavirus outbreak has turned supply chains upside down. While medical equipment is almost impossible to get hold of, demand for many other products has declined and sometimes even completely evaporated. In the meantime, management …

SCM Corona

Planning, Trends

Three-quarters of European supply chains are negatively impacted by coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic is having a clear impact on the supply chains of virtually all European manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. Although 78% of them are experiencing a negative short-term impact, 17% are noticing positive effects. …

Shipamax

Planning, Software, Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Shipamax

Shipamax was founded in London, UK, in 2016 to solve the inefficiencies involved in the manual processing of huge amounts of transport-related data contained in spreadsheets and thousands of emails each day. The company’s mission …

Blokker

Planning, Software, Trends

Blokker: containers from the Far East no longer arriving ‘unexpectedly’

Over the past six months, Dutch retail chain Blokker has completely redesigned its supply chain from the Far East. Thanks to Yellowstar’s Star Flow Supply Chain solution, every order is now fully transparent and traceable, …

stockpile

Planning, Trends

Thou shalt stockpile!

In supply chain management, the 5 P’s are ‘Perfect Preparation Prevents Poor Performance’. You should always be ready for what might happen – and stockpiling should be part of those preparations, because robust supply chains …

The coronavirus supply chain

Blogs, Planning, Software, Visibility

The coronavirus supply chain

The media coverage of supply chain has increased exponentially as a result of the coronavirus epidemic in China, South Korea and Italy. All companies that produce and ship tangible goods are currently working hard to …

Technology for strategic benchmarking

Planning, Software, Trends

Technology for strategic benchmarking

Solventure’s technology enables companies to achieve strategy-driven sales & operations planning (S&OP). The patented technology has been developed in response to the need for companies to be able to include the financial aspect in their …

Mars

Planning, Trends

Mars factory tour provides unique supply chain insights

A tour of the Mars factory in the Dutch town of Veghel followed by a workshop on connected planning co-hosted by supply chain consultancy firm Bluecrux and software vendor Anaplan. These were the right ingredients …