Machinery manufacturer Agco has grown rapidly through acquisitions, which led to a complex supply chain with little cohesion. With a large-scale transformation project, Agco has turned the competition's backlog into an advantage. Part of this …
A total of 15 start-ups have been shortlisted for the 4th Supply Chain Start-up Award Europe, and nine scale-ups are shortlisted for the scale-up award. The four finalists in each category will be announced on …
Prices for road transport are slowly returning to pre-pandemic levels, but there is still a lot less capacity available. These are the key findings based on a recent evaluation of the Transport Market Monitor (TMM). “We …
When you have 1,000s of SKUs in your portfolio, making the right choice can be hard. As suppliers push new products to acquire new business and product managers strive to offer the total breadth, you …
Lack of gender diversity is a persistent problem in the workplace. The topic has been a key priority for senior executives for years, because diversity makes an important contribution to innovation, but little has improved …
Although virologists have long warned about viruses, the COVID-19 outbreak still came as a complete surprise to the vast majority of companies. To them, it was the ‘black swan’ event that had only existed in …
Following on from S&OP, many companies are working on the next step: the implementation of integrated business planning (IBP). What is the impact of COVID-19 on this step? Experts from McKinsey and Blue Yonder discussed …
Shipsta was founded in 2015 by a handful of logistics experts on a mission to revolutionize logistics procurement using intelligent software solutions. With over 80 years of experience between them, they concluded that the digital transformation …
The Nevi Purchasing Managers’ Index for the Dutch manufacturing industry rose from 59.6 to a record-breaking 64.7 in March 2021. Despite tough lockdowns, this was the biggest-ever increase in new orders placed at home and …
Thanks to artificial intelligence, many demand planning tasks can be automated – including forecast adjustments. But this does not mean that demand planners need to fear for their jobs, according to analytics experts from SAS …
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