Planning, Trends

SCM Directors Club workshop underlines importance of scenario planning

If China attacks Taiwan tomorrow, what consequences will that have for your supply chain? And how will you respond? This is one example of the scenarios examined by the SCM Directors Club members during the …

inventory

Blogs

Inventory: the power and powerlessness of the CFO

These are uncertain times, with inflation and the war in Ukraine holding back economic growth. For many CFOs, the question is no longer whether there will be a recession, but when it will hit and …

Tier-3

Planning, Trends

The Prediction: By 2023 fewer than 5% of control tower-like deployments will fulfil their E2E potential

Technologies related to control towers, visibility and machine learning are in the spotlight when it comes to supply chain planning. Supply Chain Media asked a number of international supply chain directors for their reactions to …

Numi

Planning, Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Numi

Numi Solutions is a cloud platform that analyses, optimizes and improves supply chain resilience by recommending improvements focused on the execution horizon. The solution enables integrated and automated supply chain decisions by using artificial intelligence …

sustainable food brands

Sustainability, Trends, Visibility

Majority of Dutch consumers give preference to sustainable food brands

When buying food, more than half of Dutch consumers (56%) give preference to brands that have a focus on sustainability and climate. Clear communication is also important to many consumers: 74% say they trust a …

new pro-active supply chain risk management

Trends

Calling for a new pro-active supply chain risk management

In the face of today’s highly disruptive external environment, companies need to leave traditional and ineffective approaches to risk management behind and move towards a new pro-active approach. Stop chasing events and become risk-aware! By Iris …

Leaderboard SCM Bubbles of Bogus 12-11 tm 17-11-2024
Scrum or waterfall: what’s best for your organization?

Blogs, Planning

Scrum or waterfall: what’s best for your organization?

Digital planning is high on the agenda for many IT and supply chain directors. They often ask themselves ‘What’s the next step?’, ‘Which tooling should we use?’ and ‘How should we tackle the implementation?’ – …

Reshoring gathers steam

Exclusively in magazine, Trends

Reshoring gathers steam

As many as 60% of companies from Europe and the USA are planning to bring some production activities back from Asia to their own region, according to research by Supply Chain Media and consulting firm …