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How to ensure a supply chain’s mid- and long-term resilience—including practical examples

In the last two posts of my blog series, I focused on taking the first steps in dealing with an acute crisis. So far, I have emphasized the importance of integrating supply chain management and risk management, as well as taking ad-hoc measures to counter the impacts of Covid-19. Now, the next step is to…
How to ensure a supply chain’s mid- and long-term resilience—including practical examples

How to automate transport logistics with multi cloud and RPA

Integrated transport management thrives on real-time data exchange between all logistics partners. Once this basis has been established, logistics and transport processes can be automated by intelligent mechanisms. Multi-cloud platforms in combination with automation methods such as RPA (Robotic Process Automation) play a key role in this.
EUROLOG AG · September 22, 2020 - Reading time < 3 Min.
How to automate transport logistics with multi cloud and RPA

Four reasons to accelerate your digital transformation in times of Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has put supply chains under pressure. From Fortune 500 companies to SMEs, through all kinds of industries, the impact on operations and planning activities was and remains real. Supply and demand forces have been tremendously shaken by the accentuation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) driven by the pandemic.As for digital…
Four reasons to accelerate your digital transformation in times of Covid-19

How to successfully steer your supply chain through a crisis: Quick response measures

Recently, in the first part of my blog article series “Supply Chain Risk Management – far more than just a way out of the current crisis“, I highlighted the importance of linking the two disciplines of Risk Management and Supply Chain Management when managing crises. There is another important aspect to not just surviving times…
How to successfully steer your supply chain through a crisis: Quick response measures

How to better cope with demand volatility

The coronavirus crisis has revealed a long-standing challenge for suppliers even more clearly: How reliable are the demand forecasts they receive from their customers? High volatility and uncertainties in demand forecasting are not limited to pandemic times. Even in the “normal state”, the originally reported requirements can differ considerably from the materials actually called off.…
How to better cope with demand volatility

Collaboration made easy: feasibility studies with Technical Review

Continental and ZF Friedrichshafen’s customers include numerous automotive manufacturers (so-called OEM). In this industry, the demands on logistics, feasibility, quality, quantities and compliance are particularly high. Both companies therefore need absolutely reliable partners.Until recently, however, they were faced with a challenge: How can they check with both known and, in particular, new suppliers to see…
Collaboration made easy: feasibility studies with Technical Review

Supply Chain Risk Management – far more than just getting out of the current crisis

The current coronavirus crisis clearly shows how vulnerable and susceptible to disruption supply chains are today. It also shows how important it is to anticipate disruptions of any kind in order to minimize their impact. In this context, supply chain risk management plays a major role. Essentially, it is a matter of finding answers to…
Supply Chain Risk Management – far more than just getting out of the current crisis

Is your supply chain ready to navigate towards the new normal?

Covid-19 has kept big and small players across all industries in check. Given the high levels of interdependence among customers, suppliers and other value-adding partners throughout the supply chain, the domino effect is not yet over. And recovery will be even harder.
Is your supply chain ready to navigate towards the new normal?

How you benefit from a central procurement solution when having various ERP systems in place

Many companies operate historically grown multi-backend system landscapes. Mergers and acquisitions, international expansions, new sites and plants, different update cycles, etc. have multiplied the number of ERP systems within the organization over time. This in itself is not a problem. However, if you wish to use a central procurement system for all your plants and…
How you benefit from a central procurement solution when having various ERP systems in place

Restarting production: How to ensure the flow of materials

The coronavirus pandemic has turned everything upside down: Plants around the world had to shut down production. As a result, supply chains and thus transport networks often collapsed across the board. This is precisely what is now confronting companies with a major problem when they re-start production: even if suppliers are producing the required materials…
Restarting production: How to ensure the flow of materials