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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 …

Beumer

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Beumer Group supports start-up Codept in developing a productive logistic platform

Beumer Group has declared digitization a top priority in order to maximize customer satisfaction, while remaining competitive. How can this be achieved? The system supplier relies on the support of start-up companies to bring digital …

InstaFreight

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InstaFreight offers fast China-Europe overland transports

As of now, InstaFreight offers their customers stable overland transport for the supply chains from China to Europe and conversely, which both have been strongly affected by the coronavirus. With this newly added service, InstaFreight …

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, …

change management

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No digitalization without change management

Supply chain digitalization is driving a constant stream of innovation and transformation within companies. If there is a lack of focus on change management, every attempt to digitalize the supply chain is doomed to fail. …

supply chains

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Digesting the shocks: how supply chains are adapting to the COVID-19 lockdowns

As the world grapples with the human and economic crisis unravelling before us, supply chains are finding themselves squarely within the public eye and experiencing unique challenges of their own. By Professor Ralf W. Seifert, with …

supply chain advice

Software, Trends

Free supply chain advice during coronavirus crisis

Companies are being offered free supply chain advice and services from several sides during the current coronavirus crisis. Reveal USA and R&G are two consultancy firms sharing free-of-charge tips related to supply chain management, for …

crisis management

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‘In supply chain, crisis management should be focused on workforce, products and costs’

To mitigate disruption by coronavirus, supply chain leaders should focus their crisis management activities on three key impact areas: workforce, products and costs, according to a new report by research and consultancy firm Gartner. “Supply …

Impargo

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Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Impargo

Impargo was founded in Berlin, Germany, by Gerhard Hänel and Julian Labeit in 2017. Their vision is to digitalize transport order management, from shipper to dispatcher to driver, and to become the largest autonomous freight matching …

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 …