For the fifth year in a row, leaders from the fields of supply chain management, finance, logistics, and purchasing will converge in Frankfurt am Main on September 26 and 27, 2017, to talk about the challenges facing today’s supply chains and how businesses can overcome them. The focus will be on top issues such as resilience vs. efficiency, the culture of the digital transformation, digital sovereignty, sustainable business practices, and open innovation.
The competition for the Supply Chain Management Award 2017 has begun. Strategy&, the global strategy consulting team at PwC, is partnering with the industry trade journal LOGISTIK HEUTE (published by HUSS-VERLAG in Munich) to find the best value chain in the award’s 12th year.
PERI, the formwork and scaffolding specialist with operations around the world, has won the Supply Chain Management Award 2016. PERI sells and rents formwork and scaffolding systems for construction projects of all types and scales. System components that are returned after a rental period trigger a cycle of refurbishment and re-use that makes it difficult to plan quality, quantity, and schedules with certainty.
Business leaders from the fields of supply chain management, finance, logistics, and purchasing will converge in Frankfurt am Main for the fourth time on October 6 and 7, 2016, to talk about current challenges and successful plans of action in the supply chain. The agenda focuses on top issues like compliance, digitization, supply chain finance, and the impact of the new Silk Road on global supply chains.
The competition for the Supply Chain Management Award 2016 has begun. Strategy&, the global strategy consulting team at PwC, is partner-ing with the industry trade journal LOGISTIK HEUTE to find the best value chain for the eleventh year. The con-test is open to small, medium, and large enterprises from all manufacturing industries. Also welcome are joint applications from companies that are linked through premium value-adding networks or have im-plemented exemplary cross-enterprise supply chain solutions. Companies in Germany and the rest of Eu-rope are eligible to apply.
Nokia Networks has won the Supply Chain Management Award 2015. The world’s largest provider of hardware and software products and services for the telecommunications industry suffered a series of shocks that forced it to undergo an existential transformation of its supply chain strategy and supply chain management.
Supply chain management is one of the key drivers of the transformation toward digitization – that was the conclusion at the international business conference “EXCHAiNGE – the Supply Chainers’ Conference,” which took place on June 25 and 26 in the House of Logistics and Mobility in Frankfurt.
Digitization and Industry 4.0 are two of the biggest challenges facing the German economy today. That’s why this year’s EXCHAiNGE conference, June 25–26 in Frankfurt am Main, is devoting an entire session to this exciting topic.
The shortlist for the Supply Chain Management Award 2015 is in. The companies that will compete for the coveted SCM prize on June 25 in Frankfurt am Main are: Continental Automotive, Nokia Networks, Rohde & Schwarz, and Sky Deutschland.
“Risk Management in the Supply Chain” at EXCHAiNGE – the Supply Chainers’ Conference: Frankfurt am Main, June 25–26, 2015. One could almost get the impression that the subject of risk management is no longer a priority for businesses, since many supply chains fail to live up to their technical and organizational potential. But proactive risk management is more important than ever, given the abundance of crises now unfolding and threats looming on the horizon.
Supply chain management leaders from around the globe will meet on June 25 and 26 at the third international “EXCHAiNGE – the Supply Chainers’ Conference” to talk about the challenges facing the supply chain today and proven approaches for confronting those challenges.
Supply chain managers are the primary suppliers of change. That was the conclusion of the EXCHAiNGE management conference, held on June 24 and 25, 2014, in the new Kap Europa conference center in Frankfurt am Main. Over 150 supply chain management and operations experts gathered to discuss and develop ideas, plans, and solutions for how businesses can adapt and cultivate new technologies and social trends like industry 4.0 and the sharing economy.
GF Piping Systems of Schaffhausen (Switzerland), supplier of piping systems for gas and liquids, has won the “Supply Chain Management Award 2014”. The award is presented each year to the best value chain in the manufacturing industry by the Management Consulting unit of the auditing and consulting firm PwC and the trade journal LOGISTIK HEUTE in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics and the House of Logistics & Mobility (HOLM).