Business Strategy Alignment

Mars Wants to Tackle 'Broken' Cocoa Supply Chain With New Sustainability Scheme

Mars Wrigley Confectionery launched a new sustainability strategy on Wednesday with the aim of combating deforestation, child labor and poverty in what it called the “broken” cocoa supply chain.

September 21, 2018

Reuters

Mars Wrigley Confectionery has launched a new sustainability strategy with the aim of combating deforestation, child labor and poverty in what it called the “broken” cocoa supply chain.

Companies Stockpile Drugs, Chocolate as They Brace for ‘Hard’ Brexit

Some of the world’s biggest companies are drawing up plans for the unplannable: a March divorce between Britain and the European Union, in which even some basic parameters have yet to be hammered out.

September 20, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

Some of the world’s biggest companies are drawing up plans for the unplannable: a March divorce between Britain and the European Union, in which even some basic parameters have yet to be hammered out.

Amazon Could Open 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021

Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with the matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains such as 7-Eleven Inc., quick-service sandwich shops such as Subway and Panera Bread, and mom-and-pop pizzerias and taco trucks.

September 20, 2018

Los Angeles Times

Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with the matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains such as 7-Eleven and more.

Parcel Fulfillment Forum Boasts Leg-Up Strategies for the Amazon Age

Blue bins choking on Amazon cardboard are a sign of the times.

September 19, 2018

SupplyChainBrain

Blue bins choking on Amazon cardboard are a sign of the times.

How Asset Valuation Can Aid Supply-Chain and Logistics Providers

Financial partners with expertise in asset valuation can help supply-chain and logistics companies to embrace change and prepare for the future.

September 19, 2018

Thomas Schied

Financial partners with expertise in asset valuation can help supply-chain and logistics companies to embrace change and prepare for the future.

Too Important to Fail

How to Ensure Improvement Projects Drive Sustained Success

September 18, 2018

Oliver Wight

Five Signs Your Business Processes Are Curbing ERP Success

For many manufacturing organizations, an optimized enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a key enabler for digital transformation. While implementing a new system is often one of the most difficult and challenging endeavors any organization will ever undertake, it’s just the first step in the ERP journey.

September 18, 2018

David Beldyk

For many manufacturing organizations, an optimized enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a key enabler for digital transformation.

Deal or No-Deal Brexit: How the British Food and Pharma Industries Can Survive

Following a tumultuous summer of Brexit discussions, typified by the results of a recent poll indicating that close to 59 percent of the British population would now choose to remain in the European Union, a number of lingering questions surround the future of the British economy, as well as the U.K.’s trade relations with the rest of the world.

September 17, 2018

Angel Versetti

Following a tumultuous summer of Brexit discussions, a number of lingering questions surround the future of the British economy, as well as the U.K.’s trade relations with the rest of the world.

Anheuser-Busch Pauses Beer Brewing to Ship Cans of Water to Hurricane Florence Victims

Hurricane Florence, this Bud’s for you. Anheuser-Busch is sending six truckloads of canned drinking water, more than 300,000 cans, to North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

September 13, 2018

Fortune

Hurricane Florence, this Bud’s for you. Anheuser-Busch is sending six truckloads of canned drinking water, more than 300,000 cans, to North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.