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Transparency & Candor: Meet Three New Supply Chain Leaders Up Close

Stord

While everyone at Stord accomplished a lot in 2023, let’s take a moment to meet some of our leadership team, and explore what they have planned for 2024 and beyond! We also launched the Culture Club, a collaborative monthly meeting of volunteers across Stord. Paola: “It’s all about the people.”

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How Procter & Gamble is thriving on supply chain complexity

ToolsGroup

GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. P&G knew that it needed to improve its S&OP forecast quality, while reducing the human effort and inventory needed to meet customer service levels. Equally it poses huge supply chain planning challenges.

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Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Bitcoin has failed to meet the expectations of the stated objective, and it has also become a speculative investment over the years. The energy consumption for the bitcoin network itself is equal to the energy consumed by a whole nation like Argentina and Norway. The valuation of bitcoin is very puzzling.

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Supplier Financial Health: Don’t Wait for the Worst, Reach out and Talk!

Supply Chain View from the Field

example is the default of Argentina and the associated immediate spread widening on debt of other South American countries (most notably Brazil), as well in the business context of buyer and supplier firms. This updating leads to “contagious” jumps in credit spreads of business partners, and can rapidly spread.An

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“Too Big to Fail”: 10 Things you Need to Know About El Niño

Elementum

During the 1997 El Niño, droughts in Indonesia and Argentina caused mining activity to halt, raising prices of copper, zinc, and nickel. This should keep prices low and shipping lanes open. But droughts elsewhere might cause shortages of certain raw materials. El Niño will add to the pool of warm water already killing fish in the Pacific.

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Career Resilience

BlueYonder

I studied Spanish because I used to work for a company with sites in Argentina, so I decided to take my Spanish more seriously at a Spanish school in São Paulo. Have you ever found yourself as the only woman in a meeting? English, for me, is my second language and I consider myself to be fluent. How did that feel? All the time.

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Career Resilience

BlueYonder

I studied Spanish because I used to work for a company with sites in Argentina, so I decided to take my Spanish more seriously at a Spanish school in São Paulo. Have you ever found yourself as the only woman in a meeting? English, for me, is my second language and I consider myself to be fluent. How did that feel? All the time.