Optimally balancing inventory

Visibility, Trends

Optimally balancing inventory and service level in three steps

Supply chain problems can have a significant financial impact, causing companies’ inventories to grow faster than their sales and therefore their cash flow to dry up. In view of all the supply chain uncertainty and …

fleet managers

Trends

European fleet managers concerned about fuel costs and driver shortages

European fleet managers are concerned about the coming winter because of high fuel costs, driver shortages and fears of a global recession that could make 2023 one of the most challenging years ever. Therefore, fleet …

Paris Agreement climate goals

Sustainability, Trends

The Prediction: It will be impossible to achieve the Paris Agreement climate goals

The ongoing droughts around the world are causing major supply chain problems. As a result, sustainability is gaining ever more prominence on companies’ strategic agendas. Supply Chain Media has asked a number of supply chain …

Parts shortage

Trends

Parts shortage prevents Ford from selling tens of thousands of cars

The ongoing global supply chain problems are continuing to severely impact the automotive industry. Ford recently announced that between 40,000 and 45,000 large pickups and SUVs are currently stuck in its factories, waiting for parts. …

Jonathon Karelse

Planning, S&OP Selection Day, Software, Trends

Jonathon Karelse: ”Why do we forecast the way we do?”

From the Oracle of Delphi right through to Box/Jenkins and from exponential smoothing to S&OP, no stone of business forecasting history is left unturned in the book called Histories of the Future, published by the …

JDE

Planning, Software, Trends

Belgian scale-up helps JDE to take pioneering step in digital planning

Many companies are starting to enter a new phase in digital planning by applying machine learning. One of them is international coffee and tea manufacturer JacobsDouweEgberts (JDE). With its existing SAP APO tool due to …

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Recording

Webinar Recording, Planning, Trends

Recording webinar ‘Baby gear maker teaches a lesson in how to handle growth amid disruption’

Rapid growth comes naturally to toddlers but can pose a challenge for their favorite equipment maker. With thousands of SKUs across eighty markets, one vertically integrated global baby gear manufacturer has learned how to manage a …

Digital & Green supply chains

Exclusively in magazine, Magazine, Sustainability, Trends

Supply Chain Movement 46 | Digital & Green supply chains

The main theme of the Q3, 2022 issue of quarterly Supply Chain Movement is Digital & Green supply chains. Download this issue for free below. Publication Date: September 29, 2022 12 | Profile Alexandre Baubert “Live the purpose. …