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Winddle

Planning, Software, Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Winddle

Winddle is a collaborative supply chain management platform that unifies data and streamlines collaboration between IT systems, supply teams and partners (suppliers, forwarders). This enables daily monitoring of the operations and the agile and seamless …

WEF

Trends

WEF in Davos discusses supply chain vulnerability

Addressing supply chain fragility was a key topic of discussion at the recent – online – meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Two other important topics were collaboration to ensure food …

Danone

Trends

Danone provides transparency into baby food manufacturing process

Danone is offering parents optimal transparency into how its baby food has been manufactured from now on. Together with Portera Technology, Danone has developed an innovative Track & Authenticate service that provides visibility into the …

supply chain visibility

Trends, Visibility

Supply chain visibility really does improve profit

Investments in supply chain digitalization really do improve the bottom line. Research by PwC shows that digital champions’ investments generate 8% additional revenue and reduce costs by 7%. And it is a similar story for …

Maersk

Trends

Maersk rides the wave of the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic seems to have been far from detrimental to Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, over the past year. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the Danish company’s gross operating profit (EBITDA) …

software decision

Planning, Software, Trends, Visibility

Software decision should depend on maturity

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain management is at the top of the management board’s priority list, second only to employee safety. Most companies have been hit hard on both the supply side and …

Recording

Trends, Visibility, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Supply Chain Media and PwC organized a webinar about End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. End-to-end visibility across the entire supply chain — from materials to customers and back, and all the steps in between — is a …

supply chain risk management

Trends

Supply chain risk management is maturing

Despite companies being aware of the importance of risk management for supply chains, research shows that the reality often looks different: supply chain risk management (SCRM) is often only rudimentarily implemented and sporadically operated. However, …

Lox

Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Lox

According to Lox, 1.3 million parcels are incorrectly invoiced every day in Europe alone due to carrier invoicing being such a complex and still largely manual process. That was the reason for Dylan Hirsch, Melvil …

small carriers

Sustainability, Trends

Crucial role small carriers in decarbonization process

Small carriers in particular need to strengthen their current efforts to improve supply chain sustainability. Small carriers account for 99% of the companies in the European road freight sector, so they have a key role …