Visualizing the Supply Chain
I wrote most recently about supply chains and sustainability. Since then – and consistent with the past 18 months – new perspectives on supply chain bottlenecks continue to surface. These include England facing …
Delivering Speed, Agility, and Resilience with IIoT
Many of us take advantage of Internet of Things (IoT) innovations in our personal lives, where the benefits of connected sensors and IoT are well understood. But what excites me …
Siemens and SAP Join Forces to Accelerate Industrial Transformation
NUREMBERG and WALLDORF, Germany — Siemens and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new partnership that will leverage their industry expertise and bring together their complementary software solutions for product lifecycle, supply chain and …
Reliance on Technology Pays Off as Supermarket Chain Increases Market Share During Crisis
Every company has a crisis plan for dealing with emergencies, and so did Swiss retail giant Coop back in February when the coronavirus pandemic first hit Europe. “That plan wasn’t …
How Intelligent Enterprises Outperform the Competition
If companies were not convinced before the pandemic that digital transformation was an imperative, they are now. But just moving business systems to the cloud is not enough. Real digital …
Fishing for the Future: Sustainable Innovation Across the Value Chain
Royal Greenland is one of the world’s leading groups in the seafood market and operates a sustainable business based on the triple bottom line of “people, planet, and profit.” As …
Three Ways SAP S/4HANA Jump-Starts Procurement Transformation
While supply chains worldwide continue adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic, procurement is also transforming – not just during this crisis, but for doing business in a very different world long after. Chief …
Three Ways Midsize Manufacturers Can Stay Viable In Unexpected Times
Part of the “Navigating Disruption Today, Planning for Tomorrow” series Industrial manufacturing companies are no strangers to disruption. In the last 18 months alone, they have faced everything from trade …
Financially Driven Leaders Transform Procurement with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
There has never been greater urgency for financial rigor, and many companies are finding it in technologies that provide company-wide visibility into procurement spend. Several market leaders recently gathered online …
Supply Chain Once Again Gets Its Due
Failure often provides the toughest and most important of life’s lessons, and the world was dealt a particularly hard lesson when supply chains failed as the novel coronavirus pandemic took …