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 …

manufacturers

Trends

β€˜Manufacturers must rethink global operations’

Manufacturers need to redesign and reform their global supply chains and global production networks (GPNs) if they are to survive and prosper in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. That is the key finding in …

blockchain

Trends, Visibility

The Statement: A quarter of all OEMs will use blockchain to source spare parts

Blockchain is once again attracting a great deal of interest from supply chain professionals, despite – or perhaps because of – the coronavirus crisis. In May 2020, 122 supply chain directors and managers took part …

self-driving supply chains

Planning, Trends

Self-driving supply chains are within reach

A future in which supply chains are β€˜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 …

blockchain

Books, Visibility

How can blockchain be rescued from the trough of disillusionment?

Blockchain – which is widely regarded as the biggest revolution since the emergence of the internet – is currently in a dip, or the β€˜trough of disillusionment’ as research and analysis firm Gartner calls it. …

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 …

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 …

logistics-service

Blogs

Pandemic paradox

The coronavirus pandemic has created an interesting paradox. The lockdown has given numerous directors and managers a broader perspective on their companies and the world in general. In between the countless digital meetings in Zoom …