merck

Trends

Supply Chain Agenda of Maureen O’Shea from Merck

Merck, not to be confused with MSD in the USA, is the world’s oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company. Founded in 1668 in Darmstadt, Germany, its majority owners are still the descendants of Friedrich Jacob Merck. …

europe

SCM Map Europe

Changing supply chain in a growing Europe

The unexpectedly strong and sustained growth in europe is leading to changes in international goods flows. Nearshoring is on the rise in eastern europe and morocco at the expense of offshoring in the far east. …

soccer

Visuals

Supply Chain Minute – Business and Soccer

The latest Supply Chain Minute is live. Soccer is all about strategy, tactics and positions. Just like business. The company structure is like a soccer team formation: • marketing, sales and customer service as the strikers, the forwards; …

Globalization

Exclusively in magazine, Magazine, Reports, Trends

Supply Chain Movement issue 27 – Globalization

Contents Supply Chain Movement 27 – 2017 Q4 Date of appearance: November 24th, 2017 6 |  News & Background Manhattan Exchange Conference in London: 'Vertical farms next to supermarket DCs would shorten the fresh supply chain' Winner …

Marc Engel

Trends

3rd Edition of European Supply Chain Leaders Ranking

Top 28 Supply Chain Executives in Europe 2017 Supply chain management is a people’s business. Like chess, it requires strategy, resources and most importantly, competent and visionary leaders behind the board making the right decisions. For …

Every Angle

Blogs, Software

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: The Automation of the Knowledge Worker

Since Alan Turing posed the question ‘can machines think?‘ in 1950, the concept and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent machines has been discussed for decades, mostly in works of science fiction. Yet it’s …

Mindmapping

Visuals

Supply Chain Minute – Strategy Mindmapping

The second Supply Chain Minute is live, it's all about Strategy Mindmapping! 'The problem of just throwing strategic projects onto the workfloor is that there is no closed loop, just a distorted messaging through the company …

revolution

Blogs

Is fulfilment still a FMCG core competency?

Why some companies are outsourcing delivery and what that says about the future Over the past several years, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies have looked more and more to third party logistics providers (3PLs) to …

Every Angle

Blogs, Visibility

Blockchain

Talk of the Blockchain is everywhere. According to Gartner, Blockchain is currently at the peak of the emerging technology Hype Cycle, generating headlines declaring it to be ‘as big as the Internet’ - all for …

Trends

Venlo named Europe’s top logistics location for third consecutive year

[Partnercontent] During the Expo Real property trade fair in Munich on 5 October, Prologis named Venlo as the top logistics location in Europe for the third year in a row. “Our continuous investments in infrastructure over …