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E2E supply chain orchestration: From control tower to command center

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E2E supply chain orchestration: From control tower to command center

Despite the turbulence in supply chains, the adoption of end-to-end supply chain visibility lags behind expectations. To find out more, consulting firm BCI Global and Supply Chain Media surveyed 123 supply chain executives about their …

Whitepaper Modern Supply Chain Planning by ORTEC: Enabling Adaptive and Data-Driven Decision-Making

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Whitepaper ‘Modern Supply Chain Planning: Enabling adaptive and data-driven decision-making’

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies face increasing demands for efficiency, speed and flexibility in their supply chains. With new products, diversified strategies and customer expectations rising, traditional Supply Chain Planning processes often fall …

Supply chain network design: from globalization to regionalization

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Supply chain network design: from globalization to regionalization

The article delves into the trend of reshoring, where companies are moving their production capacities closer to their primary markets to improve supply chain resilience, reduce lead times, and enhance sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted …

Whitepaper Carbon Management

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Whitepaper ‘Future-proofing Supply Chains with Carbon Management’

With global ESG regulations tightening and carbon pricing mechanisms impacting profitability, companies must transition to more sustainable supply chains while maintaining competitiveness. Managing Scope 3 emissions, which often constitute the majority of a company’s carbon …

Whitepaper S&OP: from Strategy to Execution

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Whitepaper Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): from strategy to execution

Chris Columbus and his roadmap to operational excellence. Turning your strategy into operational excellence may well mean sailing into uncharted waters. So to explain it, let’s use an example of someone who’s done just that, Christopher …

Whitepaper: The future of cost engineering

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Whitepaper: The future of cost engineering

Global megatrends in a dynamic economic context are presenting the manufacturing industry with considerable challenges. Ever-changing customer needs require shorter product development cycles and technical innovations from manufacturers. Take the electrification of the automotive industry …

Whitepaper Where is the real value in visibility

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Whitepaper: Where is the real value in visibility?

Visibility is what it’s all about for supply chain and logistics managers. Having real-time visibility and insights into your supply chain leads to all kinds of benefits. Performance improves, costs fall, and customers are happier. …

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Whitepaper Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey 2023

Discover the transportation management strategies, tactics and technology that top performers are leveraging to capitalize on market opportunities and adapt to challenges of a constantly evolving supply chain landscape. About the survey Since 2017, Descartes has conducted …

Descartes afbeelding whitepaper TMS

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Whitepaper: The 4 key points to take full advantage of a TMS

A transport management system (TMS) is the best way to keep a grip on your logistics supply chain. The software provides insight into transport flows, expected arrival times, transport performance and logistics costs. More comprehensive …

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eBook: The journey to world-class S&OP and S&OE

S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) and S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) processes help synchronise decision making across all this complexity to infuse agility and resilience. It gives planners and decision-makers a sense of calm and …