For the third year in a row we are Media Partner for the European LogiCon conference February 11th-13th in the Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel in Amsterdam. Retail, CPG companies and solution providers come together to discuss the current and future state of supply chains. The conference starts with a drill down day on Forecasting and Demand Planning. The theme of the […]
Two returning themes in these two LogiCon 2012 days were Collaboration and Agility. After a warm welcome by Professor Alan Waller OBE of the Cranfield School of Management the second day started off with a lecture on Supply Chain Agility by Gavin Chappell, Supply Chain Director at UK grocery chain Asda. One of his opening remarks was that research had […]
On Conference Day One at LogiCon 2012 in the Netherlands Andy Stinnes, Managing Director of GT Nexus lectured on Extended Supply Chain Collaboration, in this case enabled by a Cloud based Supply Chain Management Platform. According to GT Nexus there are three main Supply Chain threats that need to be addressed: 1. Supply Chain Disruptions 2. The Global Financial Crisis […]
With a few logistics problems of our own LogisticsMatter had a false start on the first day of the LogiCon 2012 conference arriving late at the Raddison Blu Hotel near Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. LogiCon 2012 is Europe’s only Retail and FMCG supply chain conference, bringing together 150 senior supply chain experts, to learn from over 37 insightful sessions and […]
Today’s supply chains are still faced with the on-going challenge of trying to manage the long-lasting impact of the recent global market volatility. With the supply chain being the driving force in determining the value the company delivers to its customer base, efficiency, agility and flexibility are higher on the supply chain corporate agenda than ever before. In addition to […]