supply chain visibility

Trends, Visibility

How end-to-end supply chain visibility can reduce risks

Ampleon has used the Supply Chain Media assessment tool to gain better insight into its focus areas relating to supply chain visibility. That fact emerged during an online discussion of end-to-end supply chain visibility held …

IT puzzle

Planning, Trends

IT puzzle requires a holistic approach

I’ve heard the saying ‘Keep it simple, stupid’ many times and have applied it successfully in projects myself. The adage ‘Start simple, create success and build on it’ is in a similar vein and often …

blockchain

Books, Visibility

Presenting blockchain as the long-awaited turning point in supply chain management

In the recently published book called Integrating blockchain into supply chain management, the phenomenon of blockchain is skilfully stripped of its vague and abstract outer layer. The four authors explain in no uncertain terms how …

textile industry

Trends

Coronavirus crisis highlights vulnerability of Asian textile industry

The coronavirus crisis has once again made the vulnerability of the textile industry in countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia and India painfully clear. Numerous garment factories are currently at risk of bankruptcy. Their disenfranchised position …

self-driving supply chains

Planning, Trends

Self-driving supply chains are within reach

A future in which supply chains are ‘self-driving’ is closer than many people think, and the coronavirus pandemic has brought that future even closer. That was the key conclusion from a webinar organized by Supply …

SCM Webinar

Trends

Journey to the self-driving supply chain

Supply Chain Media and Aera Technology organized the webinar "Journey to the self-driving supply chain" on Tuesday June 23. 140 attendees joined the webinar live. Market volatility, crisis environments, hyper-competition, and heightened customer expectations force companies …

WisDome

Software, Trends

SCM knowledge bank: Netflix for the supply chain

At Supply Chain Media, the motto is ‘You are what you read’. For more than a decade, the publishing company behind the Dutch-language Supply Chain Magazine and its English-language sister publication Supply Chain Movement has …

Google

Sustainability, Trends

Google and WWF partner up to create platform for sustainable fashion

Google is partnering with WWF Sweden on an environmental data platform to facilitate more responsible purchasing decisions in the fashion industry. The partnership combines knowledge and expertise from both parties by bringing some of their …

Rita McGrath

Books

Rita McGrath, author of Seeing Around Corners: ”Digitalization is a step-by-step process”

How can companies recognize so-called inflection points in their business? In her book titled Seeing Around Corners, Professor Rita McGrath explains how executives can anticipate major changes for their organizations, and how a distributor in …

software

Planning, Software, Trends, Visibility

SCM survey: Software for end-to-end visibility in great demand

Over the next 12 months, European supply chain software implementations will be mainly focused on sales & operations planning (S&OP) and end-to-end supply chain visibility. The plans to invest in a particular type of supply …