Trends

Trends

Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar Portfolio & Inventory Management

When you have 1,000s of SKUs in your portfolio, making the right choice can be hard. As suppliers push new products to acquire new business and product managers strive to offer the total breadth, you …

black swan

Trends, Visibility

Black swan drives demand for new technology

Although virologists have long warned about viruses, the COVID-19 outbreak still came as a complete surprise to the vast majority of companies. To them, it was the ‘black swan’ event that had only existed in …

Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording Webinar End-to-End Transport Management

Supply Chain Media and Alpega TMS organized a webinar about end-to-end transport management. If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of trying to integrate multiple software solutions and manual processes for transportation management, this webinar recording is for …

Pandemic accelerates implementation of IBP

Planning, Software, Trends

Pandemic accelerates implementation of IBP

Following on from S&OP, many companies are working on the next step: the implementation of integrated business planning (IBP). What is the impact of COVID-19 on this step? Experts from McKinsey and Blue Yonder discussed …

Shipsta

Trends

Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: Shipsta

Shipsta was founded in 2015 by a handful of logistics experts on a mission to revolutionize logistics procurement using intelligent software solutions. With over 80 years of experience between them, they concluded that the digital transformation …

supply chain strategy

Planning, Software, Trends, Visibility

Producers and retailers plan to overhaul their supply chain strategy in the near future

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a sizable majority (66%) of consumer goods manufacturers and retailers plan to make major changes to their supply chain strategy in the next three years in order to improve …

bullwhip

Trends

Manufacturing industry faces problems due to strong growth and Suez congestion

The Nevi Purchasing Managers’ Index for the Dutch manufacturing industry rose from 59.6 to a record-breaking 64.7 in March 2021. Despite tough lockdowns, this was the biggest-ever increase in new orders placed at home and …

sustainable delivery options

Sustainability, Trends

‘Encourage consumers to choose sustainable delivery options’

A few simple changes to a web shop’s checkout page can prompt consumers to make more sustainable delivery choices, according to Wijnand Jongen, Director of Thuiswinkel.org: “This is an easy way for e-tailers to contribute …

demand planners

Software, Trends

Demand planners do not need to fear for their jobs

Thanks to artificial intelligence, many demand planning tasks can be automated – including forecast adjustments. But this does not mean that demand planners need to fear for their jobs, according to analytics experts from SAS …

NXP

Trends

NXP struggles to cope with demand for chips

Now that demand for processors and memory chips is skyrocketing, Dutch manufacturer NXP is struggling to meet the needs of its main customers. Automotive manufacturers – who are in the midst of the transformation to …

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