Integrated Business Planning Innovation

01/26/2012 at 4:54 pm | Kim | No Comments

Integrated Business Planning Innovation Successful Planning Through Integrated Processes Date: 22nd and 23nd March 2012 Location: Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin Organization: IE group Website: http://operations.theiegroup.com/ibp-berlin  &...

Global SCALE Risk Initiative

10/21/2011 at 11:08 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

How can a company quickly and efficiently identify and visually display the weakest links in the supply chain? This is the main question of the project to automate supply chain risk displays by MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics in Boston....

Segmentation proves crucial for the supply chain

10/21/2011 at 11:04 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

“Supply chain is a central part of our business,” commented Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever, during the Supply Chain Executive Conference in London in the middle of September 2011. “One size supply chain doesn...

Big negative impact of Tsunami

09/28/2011 at 11:16 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11 of this year had a big negative impact of on manufacturing industries worldwide. The Global Trade Flow Index by Capgemini Consulting shows that levels of global trade continued to fall in Q2 2011, by a...

The best Movies and TV Series about supply chains

08/3/2011 at 2:24 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

What are the best Movies and TV Series about supply chains? And why? What is the connection with supply chains? And in which Movies and TV Series is the development of logistics into supply chain management perfectly reflected? According to the ed...

Benchmark study compares forecasting performance results

07/1/2011 at 3:24 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

In 2010, the volume of promotions was 77 per cent greater than in 2009 – that is just one of the findings from the extensive forecasting benchmark study conducted by Terra Technology amongst manufacturers and suppliers in the consumer goods sector....

Supply Chain and Finance share the same vision

07/1/2011 at 3:04 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

In most Dutch enterprises’ supply chains, there is some kind of relationship between corporate strategy and inventory level targets. The supply chain and finance departments generally tend to agree on who should be determining optimum stock levels....

CO2 calculations at supply level

07/1/2011 at 2:40 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Shippers are increasingly keen to gain measurable insights into their performance in terms of sustainable transport. IDS, a company specialised in freight & carrier management, has introduced a new tool to help its customers compare different...

Extra online sales channel for chemical companies

07/1/2011 at 2:35 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

In response to recent market changes in the chemical industry, logistics service provider TWO Chemical Logistics (TWO) has developed a new web portal. This e-commerce solution has been designed as a platform to facilitate contact between chemical...

Sales & Operations Planning remains a talking point

05/3/2011 at 2:30 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Whilst the hype surrounding Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) seems to have subsided, there are still many companies actively implementing the process. And as the first day – which focussed on Demand Planning – of the three-day Logicon...

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