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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Today, each leader wants to take their empowered team to new supply chain heights. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. Who is poised to win?

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Christmas 2023

Enterra Insights

According to History.com, “The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition of candlelit Christmas trees first brought to America in the 1800s.”[4] 2] Staff, “ A brief history of the Christmas present ,” The Week , 20 December 2014. [3]

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. Global Supply Chains Open Door to Fraud ( CFO.com ). Forget cloud, social, and mobile. Forget WMS and TMS. Forget BI and analytics.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. By the time Egypt nationalized the canal in June 1956, all British troops had left. Gibraltar and Suez during World War II).

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. For the third consecutive year, Supply Chain Movement has put together a 3PL Subway Map Europe showing the specific services of the most important logistics service providers which have offices in several European countries. >>Please