E-commerce giant Amazon has opened a new innovation lab in Vercelli (northern Italy) to support the development and use of new warehouse technologies. The main objective is to explore how innovative technologies can make the …
German businesses will soon be legally obliged to screen their suppliers for compliance with human rights standards. The Bundestag (German parliament) approved the supply chain bill or Lieferkettengesetz (LKG) on 11 June. The bill is already …
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The main theme of the Q2, 2021 issue of quarterly Supply Chain Movement is Planning & IT. This issue appeared digitally on June 10 and has been received in hard-copy on June 11. 12 | Profile …
As far as forward-thinking companies are concerned, control towers are passé in 2021. There has been considerable confusion about the term ‘control tower’ in recent years. Does it refer to the global central procurement of …
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain management is at the top of the management board’s priority list, second only to employee safety. Most companies have been hit hard on both the supply side and …
Now that a new generation of professionals is taking the helm, we are seeing a clear shift in organizations’ attitudes to technology. “The focus is on speed and flexibility, which is reflected in what I …
While the traditional practice of silo-based supply chain planning appears to be a hard habit to break, there are encouraging signs of a shift towards a more integral approach. Dynamic planning entails continuous and real-time …
German car makers have been forced to halt production due to a shortage of computer chips on more than one occasion recently. This is now having a knock-on effect on suppliers, as Stefan Hartung from …
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