PDF Documents Now Accessible to Enhance Supply Chain Integration
By Steve Hill
For years the benefits of electronic integration of supply chain integration documents have been clearly identified by businesses, consultants and acknowledged in...
Factors Influencing Risk Management In The Retail Industry
The retail industry has always been adapting itself with changing trends and designs. As global connectivity and communications continue to evolve, retailers have also...
Tips for Finding Reliable Suppliers on Industrial Goods Sourcing Platforms in China
China has emerged as a global manufacturing hub in recent years, offering a wide range of industrial goods at competitive prices. As a result,...
Know More About the Procurement Process
The term procurement is certainly familiar in the world of work. Broadly speaking, procurement is the overall process of procuring company goods and services....
Quality for ALL: The Power Of LEO
By Subir Chowdhury
The “New” Face of Quality
At a time when we have, more than ever, an abundance of impressive management tools to help us...
The Power of Visibility/Transparency in the Textile Supply Chain
The textile supply chain is complex and global, with multiple players involved at every step. From sourcing the raw materials to manufacturing and distribution,...
How STAR’S TECH ECO-ST de-icer is Taking the Ice-Melting Business by a Storm Using...
The world is all about sustainability, and rightly so, but many might be surprised to find that sustainability and environmental responsibility are crucial to...
How to Navigate the Complexities of the EU Supply Chain Law
By Bart A. De Muynck
The EU's new Supply Chain Law compels companies to ensure responsible sourcing throughout their global operations. This requires mapping entire...
Choosing the Right Supplier: The Selection Process
Suppliers are the lifeblood of any industry. They provide mostly anything, from your office supplies and business equipment to raw materials for your products....
Shortage Construction Materials Driving up Prices for Home Building Market
The prices of construction materials are rising due to material shortage which can impact your next home building project. What are the developments for...
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...
How to Make Your Warehouse Operations More Efficient and Cost-Effective
Running a warehouse may seem like a straightforward task, but it requires careful planning and clever processes to ensure optimal performance and profit. Thankfully,...
Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
Is a Smart Factory Right for Your Business?
Despite a slowdown in production and demand due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses are fortunate enough to still be functioning. You may...
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,...
How To Streamline Your Food Processing Operations
Streamlining food processing operations is crucial for enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products. In the dynamic and competitive food...
Transforming Procurement to Achieve Competitive Advantage in the Coming Decade
By P. Spiller, N. Reinecke, D. Ungerman & H. Teixeira
In this article, the authors argue that procurement must be transformed to meet the challenges...
Building Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains
By Simon Bowes
On a day-to-day basis, supply chains are disrupted by a wide range of complex problems. The consequences can range from short-term efficiency...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain Planning: The Future is Here & Now
By Mark Balte
According to a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) Digital Economy Model, by 2023 over 50% of all worldwide nominal gross domestic product...
The benefits of using distributed networks for business
With all the rage surrounding blockchain and decentralized networks, it’s easy to get lost and confused. Blame that on the multiple promises around the...
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...
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...
Decoding Chrysler Corporate Success: Why is Lee Iacocca the Greatest Leader on Earth?
By Michael Provitera and Mostafa Sayyadi
Lee Iacocca is famed for turning round the fortunes of ailing car giant Chrysler. It was not a mission...
Data Analytics and the COVID-19 Vaccine’s Cold Chain Quality Assurance Challenge
As more countries begin to vaccinate their citizens against COVID-19, logistics problems are increasingly coming to the fore. From manufacturing delays, to inadequate “cold...
The Role of Digital Tools in Managing Construction Supply Chains
The construction industry is changing rapidly. Most contractors are shifting from traditional management methods to digital ones.
This change is due to the inefficiencies arising...
5 Warehouse Automation Trends For 2021 And Beyond
The advancement of technology has not spared the warehouse industry. The quest for more efficiency and the global COVID 19 pandemic has led to...
Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs
By Yossi Sheffi
Governments around the world are investing in logistics clusters to encourage economic growth and create jobs. While the advantages of high-technology, knowledge-based...
5 Ways To Control Manufacturing Costs, And Get More Sustainable In The Post Covid-19...
As we make the shift into post Covid-19 manufacturing, many manufacturers who never saw a slowdown in their product demand, such as hand sanitizer...
International Facility Management
By Kathy O. Roper
Kathy O. Roper discusses the growing field of Facility Management and charts how it has evolved over the last 25 years...
Why is Cold Chain Logistics Important for the Transportation of FMCG Goods?
A lot is at stake when temperature-sensitive goods experience environmental changes. Their flavour, quality, consistency, safety, and effectiveness are all on the line
Cold chain...
The Evolving Landscape of Warehouse Management Systems in Europe
The face of Europe's warehouse landscape is changing dramatically. With the explosion of e-commerce into consumer use, requirements on omnichannel retail, and a market...
Extreme Weather Events and their Impact on FMCG Supply Chains
By Justin Floyd
The pandemic has taken much of the blame for the supply chain problems crippling the world’s economy, but a far greater challenge...
The Procurement Call for Agile, What does it mean?
By Andressa Reis and Hervé Legenvre
Today, Procurement teams need to embrace the agile ways of working in order to work in synch with their...
How Predictive Analytics Are Changing the Maintenance Industry
By Bryan Christiansen
Predictive Analytics are being used all over today, from business intelligence to fraud detection, to even law enforcement. As manufacturing has begun...
Optimising the Supply Chain: The Visible Effect of Elemica’s Digital Supply Network
Interview with Rich Katz, CEO of Elemica
Elemica is the industry leader in business to deliver a digital connection between manufacturers and their suppliers, logistics...
Let Your Supply Chains Be Sustainable Too: Sound Advice from Luxembourg
In their pursuit of sustainability, organisations’ initial and keenest focus is likely to be on their own operations. Nevertheless the supply chain is an...
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...
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution Requires More Supply Chain CEOs
By Wolfgang Lehmacher
CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
The Importance of Logistics for a Business
The ability to optimize the delivery of goods from manufacturer to consumer is the key to a successful business.
Therefore, every entrepreneur (both experienced and...
Shipment Trackers – IoT Devices Required for Today’s Supply Chain Challenges
Today’s global economy operates with high degrees of reliance on both international and local supply chain elements. Without reliable shipment trackers, you have limited...
Building the Data Foundations of Supply Chain Decarbonisation
By Hervé Legenvre
The journey towards the decarbonisation of supply chains requires harmonised and reliable information on emissions as well as industry collaborations by not-for-profit...
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)- Outsourcing and Shared Service Programmes
Increasingly, value is created from successful collaboration of stakeholders connected in a network. Therefore outsourcing solutions must capture opportunities and navigate risk across these...
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,
4 Ways Hand-Wrapping Pallets is Hurting Your Profits
Many business owners start out with a conservative approach to production. Based on estimates, they are likely to invest in hand-wrapping pallets rather than...
Mastering ISF: 6 Best Practices for Importer Security Filing
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, international trade has taken on a whole new level of complexity. In this rapidly evolving landscape, ensuring the...
How to Choose a Reliable Supplier of Soybean Oil in Bulk?
Finding a reliable and stable supplier of soybean oil is not always easy. Price alone should not drive purchasing decisions—consistency in product quality, dependable...
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...
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....
How Electronic Document Interchange delivers the goods for FMCG businesses: a case study
By Ian Ford
In a business where timing and efficiency is critical, FirstB2B’s EDI solution handles a complex sequence of electronic messages effortlessly, ensuring things...
Sports facilities and equipment: getting the right suppliers
Readily available sports equipment provides a list of physical and psychological benefits to communities. Having good facilities is particularly important for social bonding, especially...
