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Sustainability, Trends, Visibility

IoT-enabled carbon footprint monitoring supports supply chain sustainability

To help organizations account for the impact of their logistics processes in the environmental analysis of their supply chains, Zürich-based Arviem AG has developed an innovative, IoTenabled, real-time carbon footprint monitoring service for logistics. By …

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Trends

“It’s key to virtualize the supply chain”

“To make full use of the strategic opportunities created by digitization, it’s important to virtualize the supply chain, build a network with all partners and automate all processes,” stated Prof Dr Carl B. Welker, Director …

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Supply Chain Minute – Business and Soccer

The latest Supply Chain Minute is live. Soccer is all about strategy, tactics and positions. Just like business. The company structure is like a soccer team formation: • marketing, sales and customer service as the strikers, the forwards; …

Marc Engel

Trends

3rd Edition of European Supply Chain Leaders Ranking

Top 28 Supply Chain Executives in Europe 2017 Supply chain management is a people’s business. Like chess, it requires strategy, resources and most importantly, competent and visionary leaders behind the board making the right decisions. For …

Every Angle

Blogs, Software

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: The Automation of the Knowledge Worker

Since Alan Turing posed the question ‘can machines think?‘ in 1950, the concept and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent machines has been discussed for decades, mostly in works of science fiction. Yet it’s …

Mindmapping

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Supply Chain Minute – Strategy Mindmapping

The second Supply Chain Minute is live, it's all about Strategy Mindmapping! 'The problem of just throwing strategic projects onto the workfloor is that there is no closed loop, just a distorted messaging through the company …

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Blogs

Is fulfilment still a FMCG core competency?

Why some companies are outsourcing delivery and what that says about the future Over the past several years, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies have looked more and more to third party logistics providers (3PLs) to …

Every Angle

Blogs, Visibility

Blockchain

Talk of the Blockchain is everywhere. According to Gartner, Blockchain is currently at the peak of the emerging technology Hype Cycle, generating headlines declaring it to be ‘as big as the Internet’ - all for …

Hunkemöller Logility omnichannel business

Trends

Hunkemöller turns to Logility to support growing omnichannel business

Hunkemöller, a ladies lingerie retailer with more than 800 stores in 23 countries, has selected Logility Voyager Solutions to support its growing omni-channel operations. Logility will help the women’s fashion retailer improve full price sell-through, …

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Blogs

The India supply chain revolution

ADJUSTING TO A NEW TAX REGIME India is on the cusp of a supply chain transformation that may end up being nothing short of a major game changer. At IMD, we often discuss the distribution footprint …