Gartner

Sustainability, Trends

Gartner: Most companies will fail to deliver on their sustainability promises

90% of companies’ publicized sustainability promises will not be met by 2025 due to their reliance on single-use plastic packaging. This claim was made by Simon Bailey, vice president of analyst firm Gartner, on the …

anthill

Blogs, Trends

Supply chain influencers

In 2022, influencers dominated consumer product marketing on social media. Emerging seemingly out of nowhere, they promoted products on Instagram and other social media channels and turned them into unexpected successes. Nowadays, established brands make …

Leaderboard WW Descartes UK 4-4-2024
rapid grocery deliveries

Trends

Decline in frequent users of rapid grocery deliveries

After a year of sustained growth, the tide is turning in the instant grocery sector. In the Netherlands, just over 270,000 consumers now regularly order from a rapid grocery delivery service. This is a sharp …

TSMC

Trends

Taiwan-based chipmaker TSMC shifts production to USA

Taiwan-based computer chipmaker TSMC, which supplies to customers including Apple, is putting as much as US$40 billion into building two production sites in the USA. The investment appears to be triggered by the ‘chip war’ …

Leaderboard Eurolog 15-21 april 2024
goat trail

Blogs, Software, Trends

Request For Problems (RFP)

As a company involved in supply chain, how do you find the right software vendor to support your necessary digitalization? That’s a question that comes up again and again during the many conversations I have …

blockchain

Trends, Visibility

Where does blockchain go from here?

Implementation of blockchain in supply chain seems to have reached an impasse. What’s next for the technology born from the world of cryptocurrency? Since it made the leap about six years ago from the then-obscure …

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Eline Oudenbroek Interface

Sustainability, Trends

Eline Oudenbroek, Interface: “Our supply chain is almost completely circular and bio-based”

In 1994, the founder of Interface, a manufacturer of carpet, rubber and vinyl tiles, launched ‘Mission Zero’ and set himself the goal of eliminating the company’s negative impact on the planet by 2020. He succeeded, …

How to get an A for your thesis

Trends

How to get an A for your thesis

A few years ago Martijn Lofvers gave a presentation about Strategy Mindmapping to an audience of roughly 80 persons at a supply chain conference in Paris. Afterwards about 20 attendees lined up to hand over …

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