Trends

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Represent

Trends

British fashion brand Represent joins forces with Belgian logistics service provider

Fast-growing British clothing brand Represent has recently outsourced its inbound logistics, fulfilment and distribution to e-commerce specialist Bleckmann. The logistics service provider is dedicating 950m² at its distribution centre in Grobbendonk (Belgium) and 800m² at …

Decision Intelligence

Blogs, Trends

In search of the perfect order: How Decision Intelligence can help master order fulfilment

Back at the start of the millennium, I was fortunate enough to find myself part of a team empowered to redesign a global CPG company from the ground up, in what was to become the …

high potentials

Trends

High potentials still need to develop the right supply chain competencies

Many supply chains are currently struggling to cope with all the disruption, but at least there’s an upside: high potentials are becoming increasingly interested in a career in supply chain management. However, before young professionals …

Recording

Sustainability, Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar ‘The road to Decarbonization’

How to make transportation sustainable, quickly? Most of a company’s emissions are supply chain related. On average, 70% of a company’s Scope 3 emissions come from their supply chain. This accounts for 60% of a company’s …

Mindmap Digital Supply Chain 2022 (IMD & SCM 2022)

Mindmap, Trends

Mindmap Digital Supply Chain 2022

Supply chains need to be more resilient than ever. The Internet of Things, big data analysis, Augmented/Virtual Reality, 3D printing and robotization will have a huge impact on the supply chain strategy. The main challenge …

sustainable supply chains

Sustainability, Trends

Radically different growth model needed to make supply chains truly sustainable

If we really want to create sustainable supply chains, we have to break the current paradigm of exclusively focusing on capital growth, according to social entrepreneur, management coach and researcher Sander Tideman. He was speaking …

GenLots

Planning, Software, Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: GenLots

GenLots was originally founded by Simon Schenker and Arnaud on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2017, stemming from research into the use of machine learning in the planning of material purchases. The conclusion …

Aldi

Trends

New DC takes Aldi into final phase of supply chain redesign

By opening its brand-new mega distribution centre (48,000m2) in the Dutch city of Deventer, grocery chain Aldi has taken another important step in the strategic redesign of its supply chain in the Netherlands, which started …

supply chain disruptions

Trends

‘Factor supply chain disruptions into your budget’

How can your company go about covering all the supply chain risks? And what does that mean for your budget? Solventure and Zencargo answered these questions during Dialogue Thursday. Alfred den Besten from Solventure advised …

disruption

Trends

Disruption affects supply chains of Ace & Tate and Adama

What is the impact of disruptions like the war in Ukraine? And how can we protect our supply chains against them? Those were the two most pressing questions during the very first SCM Talk Show …