Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar ‘Transforming logistics during a global crisis’

Supply Chain Media and Oracle organized a webinar about ‘End-to-end Transport Management’. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented stresses on supply chains: the surge in freight costs, bottlenecks in human capital, transport and logistics issues, border …

Bol.com

Sustainability, Trends

Bol.com to acquire Cycloon to improve own sustainability

Bol.com has announced plans to take over bicycle courier Cycloon so that it can deliver small parcels in a sustainable manner in the future. “By acquiring a majority stake in Cycloon, we are taking another …

C&A

Trends

C&A to start manufacturing closer to home

C&A is reshoring some of its jeans manufacturing activities from low-wage countries. The clothing retailer, which was originally founded in the Netherlands, is opening a new textile plant in Mönchengladbach, Germany, where it initially plans …

Picnic

Trends

Picnic seeks alternative location after fire in hub

Various local businesses offered online grocery retailer Picnic a ‘home’ after fire destroyed its hub in the Dutch town of Roosendaal on 28 December. Even so, it will take a while before the e-tailer is …

warehouses

Trends

Employees regard warehouses as a hotbed for COVID-19 transmission

Warehouses are a hotbed for coronavirus transmission, according to 39% of people working in the logistics sector. This is one of the findings from a survey conducted by workforce management specialist Protime among more than …

logistics-service

Blogs, Software

Skills shortage

According to regular reports in the general media and financial press, the Dutch labour market is in a tight squeeze. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the labour market worldwide, and the Netherlands has not remained …

Isabelle Conrot

Trends

Isabelle Conrot, Roche Pharma: “I want my legacy to be a lean and agile supply chain organization”

“The right doors opened for me at the right time,” says Isabelle Conrot who has spent her entire career – 27 years – working for the Swiss healthcare company, Roche. Always curious to see where …

transport choices

Trends

Delays and uncertainty force businesses to reassess their transport choices

Faced with sky-high tariffs, port closures and congestion at container terminals, many shippers decided to transport their goods from China by train instead of by boat. However, the New Silk Road infrastructure couldn’t cope with …

Dominic Regan blog webinar

Trends

Orchestrating transportation with data

Logistics in modern companies not only supports corporate strategy, it enables it. And to meet today’s logistics challenges of the three C’s – customer service, carbon, and cost, these companies are looking to harness data. …

Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar Top 28 Supply Chain Executives Europe 2021

Supply Chain Media, KMPG and Inspired- Search organized a webinar about the Top 28 Supply Chain Executives Europe. For this year’s edition, Supply Chain Media, KPMG Advisory and Inspired-Search scanned the top European executives and compiled a …