Inventory: the power and powerlessness of the CFO
These are uncertain times, with inflation and the war in Ukraine holding back economic growth. For many CFOs, the question is no longer whether there will be a recession, but when it will hit and …
Blogs
Calling for a new pro-active supply chain risk management
In the face of today’s highly disruptive external environment, companies need to leave traditional and ineffective approaches to risk management behind and move towards a new pro-active approach. Stop chasing events and become risk-aware! By Iris …
Scrum or waterfall: what’s best for your organization?
Digital planning is high on the agenda for many IT and supply chain directors. They often ask themselves ‘What’s the next step?’, ‘Which tooling should we use?’ and ‘How should we tackle the implementation?’ – …
European Commission bill for fair supply chain obliges entrepreneurs to behave responsibly
Members of the European Parliament want to ban products made with forced (child) labour from the internal European market. For retail and trading companies, identifying and 'cleaning-up' their supply chain will be a major challenge. In …
Story selling
COVID-19 has had a positive impact on confidence in leadership. Just over two years ago, before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, only 24% of teams had faith in their leaders. Now, according to global …
Tectonic shifts
How should supply chain professionals deal with major geopolitical upheaval? Russia’s reprehensible invasion of Ukraine, which has been met with unprecedented sanctions, is causing huge disruption for the world of business and supply chains. Supplies of …
Logistics servants
Why do logistics service providers keep moaning about having too much work to do? The complaints about driver shortages are also dragging on, yet companies in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail industries seem to be …
In search of the perfect order: How Decision Intelligence can help master order fulfilment
Back at the start of the millennium, I was fortunate enough to find myself part of a team empowered to redesign a global CPG company from the ground up, in what was to become the …
Future-proof and boost your business with a software-driven supply chain
Accurate and demand-driven forecasting has never been more important than in the past two years. Companies that rely mainly on their experience and gut feeling inevitably hit their limits during the covid pandemic. By Jan van …
How to sell S&OP to Sales (and everyone else)
Ever heard the story of the American man who mistakenly bought London Bridge, thinking he was buying Tower Bridge (the pretty one)? By Richard Evans Rumour has it he bought it, brick for brick, to have as …
Logistic Excellence Lead EUROPE by ADAMA
The position of Logistic Excellence Lead Europe is reporting to Supply Chain Manager Spain and Portugal and matrix to the…
