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European Supply Chain Summit

Logistics Business Magazine

As a prestigious senior level leadership event, it gathers over 150 supply chain executives and influential decision-makers including CEOs, SVPs, VPs and directors. This year’s summit promises an insightful exploration of key topics critical to modern supply chain management.

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How electronics manufacturers can use ERP to address industry challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Supplier management. The supply chain shocks of the past 18 months have shown that traditional supply chain management practices need to be reviewed. It also enables re-scheduling of activities when business priorities change, or unexpected events occur. Inventory management.

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ERP addresses the challenges of Make to order manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For example, a client who manufactures cooling equipment requires specific imported tubing which has long lead times and is subject to international events, strikes, shipping delays etc. To manage this the client maintains a pool of suppliers with a primary supplier and some ‘hot’ suppliers.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Steve: Klaus, when we talked, you mentioned Autoliv was already doing digital supplier management, had digital sourcing solutions, and was looking at real-time transportation visibility solutions to provide better predicted times of arrival for inbound and outbound shipments. Klaus: I agree.

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CEVA Logistics appointed by General Motors to Manage Ventilator Supply Chain

Airfreight Logistics

It is the exclusive logistics provider on the inbound part of this project.

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Supply Chain Risk Management

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

While globalization, extended supply chains, and supplier consolidation offer many benefits in efficiency and effectiveness, they can also make supply chains more brittle and can increase risks of supply-chain disruption. Historic and recent events have proven the need to identify and mitigate such risks. Cost/profit. Customer demand.

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15 Improvements by the Deployment of The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Traditional supply chain tasks in procurement , planning, logistics and supplier management would be streamlined by intelligent, data-driven systems in a collaborative multi-enterprise environment. The decision-making capacity of smart devices within an IoT-enabled network also affects the overall supply chain structure.