Brexit causes strong decline in UK car manufacturing
The UK’s automotive industry has been struggling for months, but it hit a new low point in April when car production fell by 44.5% compared with the same period last year. This is the strongest …
Crossing the new technologies chasm in supply chains
During the summer of 2012, I was the chairperson for a supply chain event about new technologies in Madrid. During the conference, I was fortunate to be able to listen to various speakers from around …
The importance of intelligent spend in demand-driven supply chain
Far-reaching process digitalization is unavoidable if you want to make your supply chain demand-driven. In addition to minimizing manual labour, you will also have to build in intelligence in order to fully automate the more …
S&OP requires both alignment and clarity
Chain-wide sales & operations planning (S&OP) holds considerable promise, but the challenges associated with cross-disciplinary collaboration are equally great. A shared performance indicator that provides clear guidance for the alignment process can help. That is one …
Jean Marc Lechêne, Vestas: ”One unique challenge: changing people’s mind-set”
Love them or hate them, wind turbines have become part of the modern landscape. As global demand for renewable energy increases as it becomes cheaper and more efficient, wind systems providers such as Vestas are …
Brexit uncertainty heightens need for flexible logistics
Now that the Brexit deadline has been moved back to the end of October this year, the focus is on reassessing the balance of risk to supply chains, according to Steve Purvis, Operations Director at …
Supply chain scale-up in the spotlight: Pro Alliance
The Belgian firm Pro Alliance is a collaboration hub designed especially for supply chains, where conversations happen, data is shared and decisions are made. It stems from the idea that siloed supply chains are static …
Online retailers scrap free shipments
Free delivery of online orders is becoming a thing of the past, with big names such as H&M and Zalando increasingly following the example of smaller online stores. For example, Zalando recently announced that it …
Facing up to global disruption in the supply chain (2)
Lucy Harding and Pieter Ebeling, Partners in the Global Procurement and Supply Chain and Consumer, Retail and Digital Practices of Odgers Berndtson in the UK and the Netherlands, respectively, continue to discuss global disruption in …
Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Cesonia
The start-up Cesonia was founded earlier this year by Dr Daniel Kaltenthaler, Dr Johannes Lohrer and Korbinian Sontheim in Munich, Germany. They have launched a smart data network for a data-driven and highly connected business …
