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Sean Culey, Trends

Amazon finally makes its move in the grocery industry

I’ve written and spoken a lot about Amazon over the past five years, deep diving into their strategies, their culture and their mindset in order to understand why they are so successful. I have built …

Transporeon

Trends

Transporeon provides free access to information about European freight transport

Transporeon is providing free-of-charge access to information about the latest developments in the European road transport market – including transport prices and freight capacity – for decision-makers in logistics, business and public administration. The company …

ITsubwaymap.com

Software, Trends

Interactive overview of software vendors and their solutions

Supply Chain Media has launched ITsubwaymap.com, a new website in support of its popular IT Subway Map. The interactive and freely accessible online version has been live since January. The new website enables online visitors …

Supply Chain Inspector

Trends

The analytics engine called Supply Chain Inspector

Dimanex, a Dutch start-up based in Utrecht that makes 3D printing easy for supply chain teams, launched Supply Chain Inspector in mid-November 2019. It is an analytics tool that makes use of semantic search and …

supply chain academies

Trends

Supply chain academies close the gap between theory and practice

If they are to withstand the major challenges of our times, companies need to continue to evolve. That means having access to the right talent, but how can they develop that? A growing number of …

innovation

Trends

Innovate or die

Over the past decades, innovation has become a buzzword that seems to appear at least once in any article that’s more than a hundred words long. The term ‘innovate or die’ is often used to …

online shops

Content, Reports, Trends

Coronavirus is now causing supply chain problems for online shops too

More than half (60%) of online shops in Europe are experiencing supply chain problems due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to new research by Ecommerce Europe. This is sometimes due to limitations in the import …

Beumer

Trends

Beumer Group supports start-up Codept in developing a productive logistic platform

Beumer Group has declared digitization a top priority in order to maximize customer satisfaction, while remaining competitive. How can this be achieved? The system supplier relies on the support of start-up companies to bring digital …

InstaFreight

Trends

InstaFreight offers fast China-Europe overland transports

As of now, InstaFreight offers their customers stable overland transport for the supply chains from China to Europe and conversely, which both have been strongly affected by the coronavirus. With this newly added service, InstaFreight …

change management

Trends

No digitalization without change management

Supply chain digitalization is driving a constant stream of innovation and transformation within companies. If there is a lack of focus on change management, every attempt to digitalize the supply chain is doomed to fail. …