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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis? Are our agri-food supply chains in crisis? Do we need to relook at how we organise our agri-food supply chains? You could argue that this success story was the result of an optimisation of agri-food supply chains at a global level.

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Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

ToolsGroup

It’s been an interesting decade for supply chain: just when you think things can’t get any crazier, a new extreme weather event, political drama or tech start-up pops up, disrupting entire industries. A major theme at the recent Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit was that corporate winners accelerate through economic turns.

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Forced Labour and Exploitation in Supply Chains

Savant Events

In response, national governments, state and regional governments and the EU have legislated to hold organisations to account for exploitation in their operations and supply chains. Norway’s Transparency Act came into force in July 2022 and the first phase of Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act has been in force since 2023.

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9th Edition Global Procurement and Supply Chain Management for the Oil and Gas Industry

Supply Chain Movement

Venue: Radisson Blu Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We will be discussing topics including how best to manage increased costs, how to benchmark procedures that are critical to managing large expenditure and strategies for developing a supply chain in new geographical locations. Date: 22-24 April 2015. Key Topics.

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How Procurement can prepare for Omicron

Proxima

Every procurement leader should be alert to the danger. There are three steps we recommend all procurement teams take at this stage: Keep a close eye on supply and demand Get your business disruption ready Have a plan to tackle costs. For example, are border closures causing snags in your supply chain?

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Case Study: NXP Semiconductors

Procurement Academy

NXP Semiconductors (NXP) , is a global designer and manufacturer headquartered in The Netherlands. The challenge Following the appointment of NXP’s Chief Procurement Officer, Jeff Wincel , a new global strategy was implemented that included a pillar dedicated to ‘people and success’. 93% felt the training was relevant to their jobs.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 5 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 5, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership.