Private equity investors are well aware of the importance of a solid supply chain. This became apparent during the first SCM Private Equity Working Dinner on 21 September. Seated around five tables, investors and supply …
Cracks and gaps. They are everywhere and they are making your supply chain tougher. Are you leveraging the full potential of digitalization to close those gaps? As companies invest in different levels of digitization, how …
Sustainability, Trends, Whitepaper
Global megatrends in a dynamic economic context are presenting the manufacturing industry with considerable challenges. Ever-changing customer needs require shorter product development cycles and technical innovations from manufacturers. Take the electrification of the automotive industry …
Today’s world is more ‘VUCA’ than ever, with a rapid succession of disruptions: COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, material shortages, climate change, inflation… not to mention highly volatile demand and strong lock-in effects impacting on …
Road Map, Sustainability, Trends
Logistics operations are always sales-driven. This implies that logistics concepts and operations should follow sales concepts. With the advent of e-commerce, the sales trends such as combining B2C, B2B, D2B, D2C, cross-border, marketplaces and offline/online …
“Who’s going to pay for decarbonizing the supply chain?” was the title of a recent article on a supply chain website written by an experienced US journalist (and how very American of him to immediately …
Companies are not only planning to leave China; they are actually doing it. This is the conclusion from a survey conducted by Buck Consultants International (BCI Global) and Supply Chain Media among 150 supply chain …
Supply Engine Technologies (SupplyET) was founded in Hamburg, Germany, in 2022, but has already achieved scale-up status. Thanks to the commercially successful rollout of the prototype of its first software solution, Production Flow Engine (PF …
Planning, Software, Subway Map, Trends
Sales & Operations Planning and the more extensive Integrated Business Planning are both decision-making processes that aim to proactively balance demand and supply. But how does an S&OP process actually work? Especially in large organizations, …
A group of international retailers united in the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) have invited container shipping lines to submit bids for the zero-emission shipping of 600,000 TEUs. The retailers include companies such as …
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