Trends

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BISCI

Sustainability, Trends

BISCI intensifies focus on digitalization and sustainable supply chain innovation

Despite still being in its first year, the Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI) is already intensifying its focus on digitalization and sustainability. Plans for the future include BISCI’s first annual Supply Chain Innovation …

business leaders

Trends

‘Business leaders are out of touch in the digital age’

Most executives around the world are out of touch with what their businesses need to stay competitive in the digital economy. The outdated and ineffective leadership behaviours of today’s generation of executives are even undermining …

Freight transport to and from the United Kingdom in 2020: an overview

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Freight transport to and from the United Kingdom in 2020: an overview

The new rules and criteria for import and exporting goods to and from the United Kingdom (UK) will come into force on 1 January 2021. The date is fixed now that the UK’s House of …

Worldfavor

Sustainability, Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Worldfavor

Worldfavor accelerates sustainability by offering a global platform for sharing and evaluating corporate sustainability information. For sustainability management purposes, the solution offers a wide selection of established guidelines and standards on sustainability, compliance and related areas, …

Pro Alliance

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Pro Alliance files for bankruptcy

Pro Alliance has been forced to file for bankruptcy due to the postponement of two major projects, according to a blog by co-founder Steven Schroeyens. The Belgian start-up Pro Alliance developed a platform for data sharing …

Delhaize

Sustainability, Trends

Delhaize offers shoppers carbon-neutral bananas

Belgian grocery retailer Delhaize has recently introduced 100% CO2-neutral bananas. Various carbon-reducing measures entirely compensate for the impact of the ‘Be-climate’ bananas on the supermarket chain’s carbon footprint. This is part of Delhaize’s mission to …

supply chain network

Trends

Take a critical look at your supply chain network

Flexible, agile, responsive... these and other such words have become increasingly commonplace, but since a couple of years ago – thanks in part to the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson – there really …

software

Trends, Visibility

New control tower solutions bring data together

End-to-end supply chain visibility – insight both into interruptions in your suppliers’ supply chains as far afield as Asia and into the actual needs of European consumers – is every supply chain manager’s dream. There …

Mars

Planning, Trends

Mars factory tour provides unique supply chain insights

A tour of the Mars factory in the Dutch town of Veghel followed by a workshop on connected planning co-hosted by supply chain consultancy firm Bluecrux and software vendor Anaplan. These were the right ingredients …

Wenko

Trends

Wenko distribution centre miniaturized in Lego

The distribution centre of Wenko, based in the German town of Baal, close to Düsseldorf, was thoroughly modernized by system integrator Rema Tec in 2017. The redesign project involved almost the entire spectrum of Interroll’s …