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Tier-3

Planning, Trends

The Prediction: By 2023 fewer than 5% of control tower-like deployments will fulfil their E2E potential

Technologies related to control towers, visibility and machine learning are in the spotlight when it comes to supply chain planning. Supply Chain Media asked a number of international supply chain directors for their reactions to …

Numi

Planning, Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Numi

Numi Solutions is a cloud platform that analyses, optimizes and improves supply chain resilience by recommending improvements focused on the execution horizon. The solution enables integrated and automated supply chain decisions by using artificial intelligence …

sustainable food brands

Sustainability, Trends, Visibility

Majority of Dutch consumers give preference to sustainable food brands

When buying food, more than half of Dutch consumers (56%) give preference to brands that have a focus on sustainability and climate. Clear communication is also important to many consumers: 74% say they trust a …

new pro-active supply chain risk management

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Calling for a new pro-active supply chain risk management

In the face of today’s highly disruptive external environment, companies need to leave traditional and ineffective approaches to risk management behind and move towards a new pro-active approach. Stop chasing events and become risk-aware! By Iris …

Reshoring gathers steam

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Reshoring gathers steam

As many as 60% of companies from Europe and the USA are planning to bring some production activities back from Asia to their own region, according to research by Supply Chain Media and consulting firm …

Bol.com parcel collection service

Sustainability, Trends

Bol.com offers sales partners a parcel collection service

Dutch e-commerce business Bol.com is launching a new service to collect parcels from its sales partners. This is driven by the company’s desire to better align its logistics services with customer needs and to provide …

supply chain disruption

Sustainability, Trends

Supply chain disruption has increased costs and complexity for big businesses

Two thirds (66%) of large enterprises globally are holding more inventory now than in the pre-pandemic period. In fact, one in five companies (18%) are holding ‘significantly more’ stock. Companies’ increasing focus on taking innovative …

Felixstowe

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Strike looms at key UK container port Felixstowe

Staff at Felixstowe, the UK’s biggest port for container ships, are planning to go on strike for eight days later this month to express their dissatisfaction at the failure of pay negotiations. Such a strike …

urban logistics

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Transport companies in urban logistics not ready for zero-emission zones by 2030

Many transport companies involved in urban logistics will not be ready for the zero-emission zones that will be introduced in dozens of Dutch cities from 2025. At present, almost 40 per cent of these companies …

delivery errors

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Three quarters of consumers experience delivery errors with online orders

No less than 77 per cent of consumers in the Netherlands and Belgium who made an online purchase in the past three months experienced delivery errors. This is the conclusion of research conducted by Descartes …