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...
The Invisible Intelligence Reshaping Global Logistics
Global logistics used to be about giant cargo ships, wooden pallets, and sheer brute force. Now, the real heavy lifting happens invisibly. The actual...
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...
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...
Navigating The Building Approvals Process For Construction And Renovations
Are you planning a construction or renovation project and feeling overwhelmed by the building approvals process? Navigating the maze of codes, regulations, and permits...
5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility
If you are yearning for true supply chain visibility, you have come to the right page since we are going to share with you...
The Competitive Advantages of the Digital Economy Require a Digital Mentality
By Michael Gravier, Christopher Roethlein, and John Visich
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, supply chain leaders are being challenged by the profound effects of...
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...
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...
Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation
By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...
The Globally Integrated Enterprise: Developing Enterprise Integration as a Strategic Capability
By Maximilian Chowanetz and Sia Siew Kien
Many large enterprises have embarked on enterprise integration (EI) initiatives in recent years. Below, Maximilian Chowanetz and Sia...
How Vodafone Procure & Connect Pioneers AI at Scale
By Hervé Legenvre
This article examines how Vodafone Procure & Connect (VP&C) has built and deployed AVA, an AI-driven sourcing and procurement platform, across its...
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...
Industrial Supply Chains Turn to Specialist Material Suppliers as Project Demands Rise
Industrial supply chains are under more pressure than they were a few years ago. Projects have become more international, lead times can be less...
Why Turkish Free Zones Are a Smart Base for European Production and Assembly
By Şahin Tuhan
Production and assembly carried out inside a Turkish free zone for European customers can stay largely free of Turkish tax, provided the...
What We Can Learn from the Collision of Supply Chain and Retail
By Karin L. Bursa
Traditionally, Supply Chain Planning and Retail Planning organisations have operated independently of each other, to the detriment of both. But, Karin...
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...
How To Monitor Your Inventory Effectively
Inventory management is an important step in an organization to oversee in and out flow of products and services. A company can use a...
Getting the Right Construction Site Facilities
If you are responsible for organising a construction site, making sure you hire the right facilities for staff or contractors to use is key....
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...
The Benefits of Low Fixed Shipping Rates
Shipping costs are critical determinants of competitiveness in the current global economy. The idea of using low fixed shipping costs has become one of...
The 7% Tax Loophole: Why UK Tech Founders are Scaling their Teams in Moldova
By Marina Bzovii
Faced with slower hiring and rising costs at home, UK tech founders are rethinking how they build and where.
For years, UK tech...
Breaking the Bottlenecks: Strategies for Improving Warehouse Productivity
Warehouse managers must do everything in their power to maintain high productivity levels and avoid delays within the wider supply chain. There are many...
Ultra Decking Marketing Manager Talks About how Recent Shipping Cost has Impacted Composite Decking...
Experts have warned that the rising shipping costs and scarcity of building material supplies might have adverse effects on the UK economy as it...
How Do I Find a Reliable Packaging Manufacturer?
When you want quality packaging with class, your packaging supplier can make a significant impact. Finding a reliable packaging manufacturer is important to ensure...
A Guide to Dodging Shipping Slip-ups in Export, Import, and Logistics
Global trade is the backbone to modern life. It’s the industry that moves and transports the goods we all use and depend on daily....
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...
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...
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...
S&OP Made Practical
By Karin Bursa
The biggest obstacles to S&OP excellence stem from the complexity of managing the process which requires amongst other things, identifying, gathering and...
Warehouse Automation – The Ultimate Guide
Nowadays, the role of the warehouses has evolved from its traditional role of just being room to store goods. Automation of the warehouse basically...
How Technology is Changing the Delivery Industry
Over the past decade, the world of logistics has changed almost beyond recognition. And this change has been driven, almost entirely, by the advancement...
What Breaks When a Company Has More Suppliers Than Customers
By Boris Dzhingarov
Most business systems assume a few suppliers and many customers. Invert that ratio and routine work like paying invoices becomes the binding...
On Economic Supply Chain Risk Capital
By Kamil J. Mizgier
Economic risk capital is an established risk management framework used by firms in the financial services industry to drive their capital...
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...
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...
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...
How to Choose the Right Water Chiller for Your Process Cooling
Process cooling is a core factor in many industries, like food storage and processing facilities, or companies that handle chemicals and other temperature-sensible materials....
The Evolution Of The Oil And Gas Industry Safety
Safety standards are the primary concern at any site, not just on an oil drill. Keeping your crew protected and your material investment guarded...
How To Market Your Manufacturing and Workshop Services
The manufacturing industry is one of the most important industries in the world. It's one of the industries that almost all others depend on...
5 Different Types of Business Phone Systems
Every single business has a phone to make and receive calls to run day-to-day. Making a phone call is a simple task, but when...
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...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part I
By Sean Culey
In the last edition of The European Business Review, my article called ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ was published, in...
Developing Saudi Arabia’s Construction Ecosystem: Moving from vision to reality at The National Housing...
By Hervé Legenvre
Saudi Arabia’s ambition to deliver 600,000 homes by 2030 requires an unprecedented procurement and supply chain effort. The National Housing Company leads...
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...
How Will ‘Chipageddon’ Affect the Smart Wearable Market in the Next 6 Months?
The Covid-19 pandemic has birthed an array of challenges which has consequently related in finding solutions, altering the way of life as we once...
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...
Importance of Inventory Management Solution for Businesses
In the modern world, businesses are faced with increasing demand for inventory. With growing online business, it isn't easy to manage the inventory and...
Triple A.I. Supply Chains
By Fabrice Thomas and Hervé Legenvre
Hau L. Lee, a Stanford professor described high performing supply chains back in 2004 as Agile, Adaptative and Aligned....
The Power of Digital Twins: Unleash Supply Chain Decisions
By Gilles Paché
"In today’s volatile, complex, and fast-moving markets, reactive-only supply chains are obsolete." Discuss. Here, Gilles Paché does just that, arguing that the...