Amazon, Just a Click Away from Luxury
What are the Implications for Selective Distribution?
By Xavier Derville and Jean-Noël Kapferer
Has the strategy of selective distribution, on which luxury brands depend for survival, evolved in the...
Factors To Consider When Shipping from China to USA
China is well known for its best innovative manufactured products across the globe. The USA has been one of the beneficiaries and number one...
The Dos and Don’ts Guide to Shipping Fresh Food
By Patrick Watt
The transportation of perishable products is very challenging and demanding. Better still, we need the products for survival. For the products...
Creating an Omnichannel Supply Chain for Branded Manufacturers: The Untapped Potential for Growth
By Michael Hu and Sunil Chopra
In today’s omnichannel world, the distinction between brands and retailers is of little interest to consumers. They will buy...
Cybersecurity and the IoT Improving Supply Chain Efficiency
Many businesses are using cybersecurity and the IoT (Internet of Things) to make their supply chain operations more efficient than ever before. They show...
The Digital Revolution is an Evolution for the Outsourcing Industry
By Mike Salvino
Digital technology has transformed virtually every industry, affecting the way companies serve customers, manufacture products,
Buying Guide: How to Choose the Right Oven for Your Factory
Choosing an industrial oven is a large investment that calls for a detailed criterion. From efficiency to reliability, there is much to consider. Manufacturing...
6 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a POS System
A Point-of-Sale system, or "POS system" is a necessary piece of technology for any business that wants to effectively manage its sales and operations....
Leveraging Predictive Analysis in Business Intelligence
Back in 2017, the Economist titled one of their articles, “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”. This has been...
Demand Chain Management: Enhancing Customer Value Proposition
By Pankaj M. Madhani
DCM creates strategic assets for the firm in terms of the overall value creation as it enables the firm to implement...
Rebalancing the Supply-Chain: How the Middle East is a New Key Player in Africa’s...
By Dr Guy Kioni and Shlomo Roiter Jesner
The global race for critical minerals is intensifying, with the Middle East emerging as a new strategic...
Multi-Echelon Replenishment and Allocation
Multi-echelon replenishment and allocation (MEA) is an advanced, powerful inventory management tool designed to help companies significantly improve their inventory utilization process. MEA optimizes...
Boosting Business Success: Essential Tips for Efficient Logistics
Efficient logistics operations play a pivotal role in driving business success, particularly in industries heavily reliant on trucking, delivery, shipping, and overall supply chain...
Full Electronic Data Integration: How a review of Business-to-Business transactions processes can help save...
By Steve Hill
In his 2010 study into business-to-business payment processes, Alessandro Perego said that electronic invoicing was a “competitiveness lever.”
His study, which was carried...
The Impact of Becoming Demand-Driven
By Karin Bursa
Becoming demand-driven enables companies to knock down organisational silos and create an integrated planning platform that ensures all teams involved are aligned...
Sinosure-Backed Trade Credits: A Guide for Importers Dealing with Chinese Suppliers
Cash flow is often a major obstacle for importers. Buying goods from abroad often means that your working capital is tied up in existing...
Is drop shipping dead? Why more people are shying away.
There are many stories out there, about how people open up an online store and start earning overnight. This is mainly by advertising on...
Reasons Why You Should Choose a Cloud-Based Warehouse Management System
There is hardly an aspect of our lives that cloud computing has not managed to touch in some way. Almost all industries are embracing...
Building the Everything Store: Amazon’s Cycles of Creativity and Circles of Destruction
By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
The Tears in the Deep Tiers
By Yossi Sheffi
Many leading companies have well-developed risk management and crisis management systems for their own operations. Yet for all their prowess of risk...
Best Practices for Innovators Implementing Industrial AI in their Organisation
By Heiko Claussen
Implementing Industrial AI offers significant opportunities for operational efficiency and cost savings, but it can also present challenges. This article outlines six...
Powering Costing with Artificial Intelligence: The case of Vodafone Procurement
By Hervé Legenvre, Gavin Hodgson and Govind Khandelwal
The present article describes how the Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC) has adopted Artificial Intelligence technology to boost its...
How Supply Chain Managers Can Benefit From Real-Time Production Monitoring
Supply Chain Managers play a significant support role in today’s manufacturing environment. They are responsible for supporting strategic decisions that heavily influence the profitability...
Mapping and Strategising Across Business Ecosystems
By Hervé Legenvre and Isabelle Herbet
Business ecosystems are the new unit of analysis for strategic thinking; they offer fertile grounds for innovation. This article...
Inking Sustainability: The ESG Journey of Taiwan Paper Industry
By YANG, ZI HAN, Asia Correspondent, The European Business Review
The recent inauguration of the Taiwan Carbon Solution Exchange (TCX) marked a monumental step in...
Private Label Or Dropshipping: Which is the Better Option for You?
Thinking of starting your own e-commerce store? If so, you may have been wondering whether drop shipping, private label or private label drop shipping...
The New Supply Chain Challenge
By Cathy Johnson, Hitachi Consulting
Supply chain alignment is demanding a different paradigm of roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and with that, how performance is managed....
Identifying the Factors for Successfully Managing Supply Chain Risks
By Sime Curkovic & Thomas Scannell
The decision to manage supply chain risks constitutes a major undertaking for most firms. In this study, Sime Curkovic...
How Packaging Impacts the Supply Chain of Your Business
Supply chain packaging optimization is more than just delivering a product to the user in a visually appealing box or container. The whole supply...
Ways to Grow Your Logistics Business
Running transportation & logistics software development solutions for business is no easy task. You have to be able to handle a lot of different...
Tools for Success
By Gwynne Richards and Susan Grinsted
Supply chain management and logistics is taking centre stage in many companies today. Until recently the areas of warehousing...
Bring Competitive Advantages To Construction Companies By Adopting Agile
If you are running a construction firm, you must be aware of the tough competition that every construction firm faces these days. In countries...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Multi-Echelon Replenishment and Allocation
Multi-echelon replenishment and allocation (MEA) is an advanced, powerful inventory management tool designed to help companies significantly improve their inventory utilization process. MEA optimizes...
Digital Strategies for Proactive Supplier Risk Management
By Kamil J. Mizgier
By learning to proactively manage supplier risks through digital strategies, companies can mitigate the adverse effects of disruptions, enhance supply chain...
What Is Last Mile Logistics & How It Drives Growth
By Yulia Miashkova
Home deliveries are something most of us can’t imagine our lives without.
We expect every online store, every retailer, and every restaurant to...
7 Tips for Making the Right Food Processing Equipment Purchase
Food processing equipment includes all types of machinery used in the packaging, manufacturing, and harvesting of food products. However, there are so many different...
A Word About Dynamic Supply Chains: Delivering value through people
By John Gattorna
The key to successful supply chain management is recognising that it’s people who really drive the living supply chains that are at...
All You Need to Know About Storage Containers and Trailers for Rent
A few years ago, containers and trailers were primarily, and in some cases solely used for transport of goods from point A to point...
What’s Influencing Retail Now and Into 2022
Retail-based businesses aren’t exactly in the best of times right now. Globally, retailers face significant headwinds due to a number of factors, ranging from...
Putting Supply Chain Performance at Your Fingertips
By Karin Bursa
Leveraging supply chain analytics to boost corporate performance
Is your company run on intuition? Or do you have a set of metrics that...
How Magnaghi Aeronautica (MA Group) is Facing the Crisis with More Innovation
As the current raw materials crisis soars, increasingly more industries are being affected by the impacts of supply chains. More recently, on 7 June,...
How to Build a Resilient Organisation
Attributed to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School
As macro factors such as economic trends, public health, war, technology development and...
The Challenges of Global S&OP
By Karin Bursa
What do you want to achieve? Where does your company want to be in 12, 18, 24 months? Do you know? If...
Where to Start With Loading Dock Safety
Loading docks form the heart of every businesses logistics network. As places where heavy packages are constantly being moved, often by heavy machinery, they’re...
8 Key Steps for Companies to Import from China
Introduction
China is a global leader in manufacturing, making it a key source of goods for businesses worldwide. Importing from China can significantly reduce costs...
Intelligent Automation: The Catalyst for the Future of Supply Chain
Ever since the pandemic hit the global market, many businesses are increasingly relying on automation technologies to operate at a faster pace. Robotic Process...
Reshoring and New Globalization: The Future of Supply Chains
By Luigi Gentili
Reshoring is an economic phenomenon that has increased during the pandemic crisis. Many governments and businesses decide to repatriate their production lines...
Outsourcing: Debunking the myths and unveiling the realities
By buyingTeam
Firmly entrenched misconceptions surround outsourcing, and they are holding many companies back from maximising the potential benefits from this fundamentally important tool.
Despite misunderstandings...
The Four Challenges of Supply Chain Transparency
By Steve New and Dana Brown
In this article we examine a key business question: how much should organizations know about their extended supply base,...
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The Empathy Illusion: Why AI’s Perceived Humanity Matters More Than Its Reality
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AI is transforming how we work and interact, not just through efficiency but by mimicking human qualities like personality and empathy. As we debate whether AI can truly possess humanity, its growing...
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