S&OP: Don’t forget product pricing
For many supply chain professionals, product prices are a given – but supply chain software vendor Blue Ridge disagrees. During the SCM webinar on demand shaping held on 17 March, this newcomer to the European …
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Recording webinar Intelligent Prediction in Demand Shaping
Past sales can no longer be trusted to predict future inventory needs. Real-world events, such as digitalization, seasonality, weather changes, natural disasters and consumer buying behavior, require a fundamentally different planning approach focused on results and resilience. Intelligent Prediction …
Christoph Häusler, Reckitt Benckiser: “COVID has proven how resilient our business is”
In 2017 Christoph Häusler had the opportunity to design an integrated end-to-end supply chain from scratch. He had a clear mission: Support and enable a fast-moving, home hygiene business and rejuvenate profitable growth. As executive vice …
No silver bullet for gender diversity in supply chain
Supply chain is still lagging behind when it comes to gender diversity. Although women make up 39% of the total workforce in supply chain, they account for only 17% of top-level executives. Moreover, at the …
Recording webinar Gender diversity in supply chain
Supply Chain Media and boom! presented a webinar about gender diversity and equity in supply chain. Women still represent just 39% of the total supply chain workforce, according to Gartner’s 2020 Women in Supply Chain survey, just …
Demand sensing: relying on AI, even in the face of disruption
A recent webinar by Supply Chain Media and E2open proved that demand sensing results in more reliable forecasts. Companies that are keen to supplement historical data with other types of internal and external data can …
How COVID-19 vaccines turned the pharmaceutical supply chain into the ultimate gamble
As the world races to vaccinate as many people as possible in the shortest possible time to save lives, the supply chain of pharmaceutical companies has become a very hot geopolitical battle. This is surprising …
Order management suffers due to rigid logistics networks
Obstacles and inefficiencies in procurement and order management are costing companies millions, according to Celonis’ State of the Business Execution Benchmark Report, conducted among 2,000 business leaders. They blame rigid systems and technologies, as well …
Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Brisqq
Since being founded in London, UK, by Andrew Mukerjee in 2015, Brisqq has grown into a company with 25 employees. Mukerjee describes Brisqq as being “born out of a desire to reinvent a fragmented and …
Complex vaccination programme calls for connected planning
The recent Webinar Wednesday was all about the Netherlands’ vaccination programme: how do you get six different types of vaccines, each with its own characteristics and storage conditions, into 17 million arms as quickly as …
