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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 optimum levels of efficiency within supply chains is a common objective for organizations across the globe. Increasingly,…

The growth in data has become an asset for teams working in the Business Intelligence and analytics space. However, the full benefits that data can bring have all too often failed to make their way across the entire organization. Telling the data story The importance of data is rooted in its ability to tell a…

Generation Z – those born after 1995 –are starting to enter the workforce at pace. Growing up with ubiquitous connectivity and evolving mobile technology has shaped Gen Z’s priorities for the workplace. 91% of this group say that technological sophistication impacts their interest in working at a company. This is hardly surprising, as they are now often described as…

Managing the impact of climate change, political uncertainty and digitisation 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 five years than natural disasters and…

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?  Or even that our travel plans were about to be cancelled?  This new reality has created…

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 and needed to be reformulated within hours.  With little time to run full S&OP cycles, many…

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 to India, businesses have been constantly reminded of the need to stay agile and respond effectively…

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 to make an online purchase, you may be less aware of the complex AI that is…

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 can bring global supply chains, and ultimately the entire organization, to their knees. But it’s not…

Leadership teams in financial services organizations “do not appreciate the potential impact of technology disruption” – that’s according to more than half (52%) of the business decision makers in the sector. New research released today from connected planning specialist, Vuealta – The Future of Financial Services: Planning for Every Eventuality – reveals the array of…