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#1 – How a ‘people less’ supply chain will help businesses, and why they need to start planning today….

Mitigating the impact of political turmoil will be high on the agenda for many Supply Chain executives right now.  Combining short-term reflexes with strategic decision-making, all informed by the same accurate, trusted data-driven planning and forecasting is crucial. Achieving…

After years of offshoring and supply chains becoming increasingly global networks, are we about to see a boom in onshoring? Onshoring has certainly been a discussion point for a number of years, with tentative moves in some quarters. That…

5 Ways to Achieve Supply Chain Resilience React, Recover, Realign As Covid-19 and lockdowns swept the globe, unprecedented demand disruption followed, and businesses needed to react.  Long laid and intricate demand and supply plans were torn up, tossed aside…

Unprecedented demand shocks of a differing nature Who would have thought that, as we entered 2020, toilet roll would become the most sought-after product in the world? Or that so many people would be working and schooling from home? …

2019 has certainly been a year of political and economic uncertainty. Whether it’s Brexit in the UK, protests in Chile and Hong Kong, trade wars between the US and China or even extreme weather affecting countries from the UK…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has firmly taken root in our everyday lives and in many instances, such as the smart speakers we find in our homes, this AI is apparent and relatively simple. But when you use that same speaker…

Read our latest research report to find out what businesses need to be aware of when managing supply chains in the modern era. Uncertainty over Brexit is said to have caused more disruption to supply chains in the last…

From hurricanes and floods, to earthquakes and tsunamis, the world is experiencing a rapidly increasing number of adverse weather events. The Tohaku earthquake, tsunami and Thailand floods in 2011 are a prime example of how an apparently localised event…

Brexit, regulation and cybersecurity – three words you would not have expected to be headlining a list of major concerns facing financial services companies a decade ago. Yet, according to our latest research, The Future of Financial Services: Planning for…