container shipping

Trends

Chaos in container shipping: lack of empty containers plus shortage of ships

Container shipping is in chaos. The coronavirus pandemic has considerably disrupted the supply chain of containers, resulting in many of them now being on the wrong continent or not being unpacked. On top of that, …

Digital twin

Blogs

Digital twin

A digital twin – who wouldn’t want one of their own? A virtual copy of yourself that effortlessly takes care of the tax returns and other boring administrative activities. Then you could spend more time …

leaderboard Descartes WW 04-11 tm 17-11-2024
SCM Webinar with Oracle December 2020

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording SCM Webinar ‘The new reality for Integrated logistics’ with Oracle

Supply Chain Media and Oracle organized the webinar 'The new reality for Integrated logistics' on Thursday December 3rd.  Today’s organizations have a huge opportunity to more effectively manage the complexities of a global network of trading …

SCM Webinar 'Supply Chain Resilience: Hype or Lifestyle?' with Involvation

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording SCM Webinar ‘Supply Chain Resilience: Hype or Lifestyle?’ with Involvation

Supply Chain Media and Involvation organized the webinar 'Supply Chain Resilience: Hype or Lifestyle?' on Wednesday December 2nd. The word ''resilience'' suddenly seems to be cropping up everywhere – and not only in relation to …

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Brexit

Trends

Growing concerns about impact of Brexit on supply chains

Logistics service providers and customs agents are being inundated with questions about Brexit. In the run-up to a webinar about Brexit, for example, Belgian logistics service provider H. Essers received no less than 600 questions …

Cyber Monday

Software, Trends

Cyber Monday generates unprecedented peak in parcel volumes

This year’s Black Friday was expected to be busy, but according to the latest figures it broke all existing online records. Dutch shipping platform Sendcloud reports processing 136% more parcels on Black Friday than on …

Leaderboard SCM Bubbles of Bogus 12-11 tm 17-11-2024
supply chain

Trends

Pandemic inspires three quarters of companies to improve supply chain resilience

COVID-19 is a catalyst for change. Three quarters of companies will be adapting their supply chain practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic, according to a survey by supply chain software and service provider …

Dirk Holbach

Trends

Henkel’s Dirk Holbach the new No. 1 Supply Chain Executive in Europe

The winner of the 2020 edition of the Top 28 Supply Chain Executives in Europe is Dirk Holbach, the Chief Supply Chain Officer of Henkel Laundry & Home Care based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He …