Supplier Collaboration and Supplier Management are often viewed as one and the same. That’s because when you ask someone what supplier collaboration is, many see this as centralising processes or better managing suppliers. But true supplier collaboration involves developing new competitive advantages that drive growth for the entire company through better supplier working relations that [...]
92% of companies saw supply chain disruption in the wake of Corona. Some issues were inevitable; some not. However the damage would be a lot less if company supply chain management was better equipped for the 21 st century. It’s shocking almost 30% of organisations still rely on email, excel sheet, fax machines and paper [...]
16/3 Coronacrisis affects global supply chains in multiple dimensions Since the unfolding of the Coronacrisis, gradually more and more attention is being given to the consequences for the global economy. It has been interesting to witness initial reports affected the Chinese travel industry (24 January), international air travel (29 January), jet fuel in China (January 30), Chinese retail (5 February). Only later the [...]
Developing a supply chain response to the coronavirus outbreak is extremely challenging, given the scale of the crisis and the rate at which it is evolving
Source: https://www.scmdojo.com/incoterms-2020/ As per January 2020, a new set of Incoterms 2020 will become active. This is a set of trade terms which describe: Obligations: Who does what in organizing the carriage, insurance of goods, obtaining shipping documents, arranging for export or import licenses; Risk: Where and when the seller delivers the goods, in [...]
Tradecloud is working on a new major release of the platform. This is release 4 and it is called ‘Tradecloud One’. In this release we will introduce a new UI, a new high speed cloud infrastructure and develop a lot of improvements that we have learned from users and customers over the past years. This [...]
DLT stands for Distributed Ledger Technology. Digital information is stored in a database and shared among a network of multiple users/ nodes. These can be countries, websites and institutions. In this concept there doesn’t exist a central administrator or database, but the data is constantly updated and shared. So there are no middleman involved. This [...]
Vandeputte safety experts has choosen the Tradecloud supply chain platform to optimize their supply chain management. Orders from the ERP system (SAP) will be automaticaly shared with suppliers and suppliers confirm order via a portal or via direct ERP integration. Supply chain challenges Buyers spend on average 50% of their time retyping and chasing down [...]
OP 21 juni kwam de top van de Nederlands maakindustrie bijeen bij Heering in Vaassen om te leren over modulair produceren. Presentatie: https://www.slideshare.net/TradeCloud/modulair-produceren-expert-sessie-presentaties Fotos: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmEtbGU6 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBE9BcHR7Es3EM_PeE1T3Mw/
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most hyped-up topics in business right now. Gartner has included a number of AI applications in their 2018 Hype Cycle for most important emerging technologies. To take matters further, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai recently said he expects AI to become more important for humanity than even fire or [...]