IBM

Trends

IBM: ‘Generative AI spells the end for control towers’

Thanks to generative AI, professionals can obtain answers to supply chain issues without needing to consult complex databases and dashboards. To gain more insight into the opportunities and threats associated with this technology, the Benelux …

disruptions

Reports, Trends

Businesses have faith in their resilience despite all the disruptions

Components shortages and supply chain chaos have become a fact of life in the Dutch manufacturing industry, with 83% of businesses still experiencing supply chain disruptions. Nevertheless, 88% are confident that their company is resilient, …

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unintended side effects

Blogs, Trends

Pay for your own butler!

After a huge peak in 2020, online retail’s share of total retail sales seems to have stagnated at around 13-15% in the major European countries and the USA. It is a similar picture for online …

Amazon

Sustainability, Trends

Amazon skips outer boxes for parcel shipments

In the Netherlands, Amazon has started shipping goods to customers in the manufacturer’s original packaging, without an extra outer box. This new packaging initiative reduces carbon emissions by making transportation lighter and requiring fewer packaging …

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financial planning and supply chain planning

Planning, Trends

Passionate plea for integration of financial planning and supply chain planning

How on earth can we expect supply chain agility when each department clings to its own planning processes? During Supply Chain Media’s S&OP Flavour Day, Bram Desmet issued a passionate plea for integrating financial planning …

toll rate Germany

Sustainability, Trends

Higher toll rate bumps up cost of road freight in Germany

Transport companies driving to or through Germany will face significantly higher costs as of next month when the toll rate for trucks (the Maut) will almost double due to the introduction of a carbon tax. …

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Yossi Sheffi

Books, Exclusively in magazine, Trends

Yossi Sheffi: “People can interpret the context of events”

Four industrial revolutions have already hugely altered the role of humans within chains of production, and roles will once again change or disappear due to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The challenge is to make …

SOP-Flavour-Day-November-15-2023

Trends

Best of S&OP Flavour Day 2023

The third edition of S&OP Flavour Day on November 15 at hotel Van der Valk in Utrecht, the Netherlands, was a great success.  Supply chain executives Danny van der Ster (VP & Head of Logistics at …