Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar ‘Outsmart disruption’

Supply Chain Media and Coupa organized the webinar ‘Outsmart disruption: Protecting and future-proofing your supply chain’. Supply chains have been hit hard with multiple crises and disasters in recent years. Protecting and future-proofing your supply chain from …

SodaStream

Sustainability, Trends

SodaStream opens its biggest European factory in Tilburg

SodaStream has opened its biggest European factory in the Dutch city of Tilburg. The new facility will enable the sparkling water brand, which is part of PepsiCo, to supply all its European markets from a …

modular homes

Trends

Megafactory for prefabricated modular homes to be built in Germany

Daiwa House Modular Europe and real estate investor Capital Bay have announced plans to jointly open a megafactory to build prefabricated modular homes in Germany. The factory, which will be constructed to the east of …

Locus Robotics

Trends

Locus Robotics opens European headquarters in Amsterdam

Locus Robotics, a supplier of warehouse robots, has opened its first office outside the USA in northern Amsterdam. During the official opening ceremony, CEO Rick Faulk described the current situation as a perfect storm for …

Weber Barbecues

Trends

First European manufacturing and distribution centre for Weber Barbecues

Weber Barbecues has opened its first manufacturing and distribution centre outside the USA in Zabrze, Poland. The new facility is aimed at streamlining Weber’s European production capacity as well as reducing its transportation footprint. “Our new …

Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar ‘Smart Logistics & Risk Management’

Supply Chain Media and PSI Logistics organized the webinar ‘Smart Logistics & Risk Management’. The corona pandemic, climate change or the blockade of the Suez Canal have demonstrated that risk management is one of the most important …

smart automation

Trends

Smart automation is more popular than full automation

Interest in full automation for warehouses is waning, according to Zetes during the recent Webinar Wednesday. Companies are definitely still keen to invest in automating their warehouses, but are increasingly choosing a hybrid approach based …

sustainability

Sustainability, Trends

Everyone will have to embrace sustainability sooner or later

Some companies are getting serious about sustainability, while others are still carrying on as before. Which factors determine whether or not businesses include sustainability in their strategy? And what steps must the laggards take if …

Lora Cecere

Planning, Reports, S&OP Selection Day, Software, Trends

Lora Cecere: ‘‘We’ve made the disciplines more efficient, but unbalanced the organization’’

How can you optimize supply chain performance if you don’t know what it takes to do so? According to Lora Cecere, a leading supply chain analyst known for her thought-provoking views, most companies lack a …

Henkel

Planning, Software, Trends

Henkel presses the reset button ahead of IBP implementation

After implementing sales & operations planning (S&OP), companies soon face the next challenge: the transformation to integrated business planning (IBP). During the recent S&OP Vendor Day, Henkel and AkzoNobel shared details of their experiences with …