Trend vision Transwide

Trend visions, Trends

Trend vision Transwide: ‘Saving costs by digitalizing’

A leading global player in the chemical industry wanted to achieve full supply chain visibility as well as automating the workflow. Besides that, the company was keen to improve the performance of the entire transport chain. Fabrice Maquignon, CEO of Transwide …

Trend vision Transwide

Software, Trends

Alpega expands European freight exchange footprint with Wtransnet acquisition

Belgium-based logistics software company Alpega has acquired freight exchange Wtransnet to expand its footprint in southern and western Europe. With the addition of Wtransnet, Alpega is growing its carrier network to significantly more than 70,000 transport …

Dobbi

Trends

Dobbi provides on-demand laundry service

How can you ensure that, as a brand manufacturer, you keep pace with the transition to an on-demand supply chain and you can supply direct to consumers? Henkel is rising to this challenge by joining …

Everoad

Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Everoad

Everoad wants to revolutionize the road freight industry by utilizing technology and digitalization to connect shippers with carriers, and has been likened to the ‘Uber’ of European trucking. The online platform facilitates the booking process, …

Supply Chain Executive in Denmark

Trends

Jean Marc Lechene of Vestas is No. 1 Supply Chain Executive in Denmark

Jean Marc Lechene of Vestas has been ranked as the most influential supply chain leader in Denmark for 2018. Supply Chain Media arrived at that conclusion by applying its tried-and-tested methodology to produce the second …

cultural intelligence

Blogs

Successful sourcing in China using the START model

“Catch the goat when it’s passing” is one of my favourite Chinese sayings, and it is particularly apt when you’re looking to source new products or materials in China. Even after conducting thorough desk research …

Amazon

Trends

Will Amazon do to the grocery industry what it did to ecommerce?

Amazon has been busy lately. After entering the grocery delivery market with Amazon Fresh and buying Whole Foods, it is now in the process of launching its own supermarket, Amazon Go. These moves have many wondering if …

wind turbine supply chains

Content, Reports

Potential human rights violations in wind turbine supply chains

According to a study into wind turbine supply chains, wind turbine manufacturers do not sufficiently know where the minerals they use have come from and hence are unaware of possible violations of human rights in …

Everysens

Software, Trends, Visibility

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Everysens

Everysens is a supply chain optimization platform intended for asset-intensive industries. The start-up harnesses the power of IoT, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to boost assets’ fleet performance for small businesses and very large …

Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Shippeo

Founded in Paris, France, in 2014, Shippeo is a real-time transport visibility platform providing shippers, carriers and logistics providers with instant access to predictive and real-time information about all deliveries. Based on a self-learning, proprietary …