Our Blog

The ubiquitous business models of e-commerce platforms in the business-to-consumer sector are increasingly being transferred to the business-to-business sector. In the emerging platform economy, an increasing shift to industry platforms in the freight logistics sector can be observed. These business-to-business industry platforms represent a revolutionary paradigm shift, as they offer logistics service providers the opportunity to organise themselves in business networks and carry out data transactions in the supply more efficient and with high transparency.New business relationships are being created and business processes are changing in terms of transport planning and control as well as the provision of information from production to consumption. Decisive here is the use of blockchain technology, which ensures transparency, traceability and security of data transactions between the companies involved.

Checking inventory fully automatically every night without the need for staff and having the perfect data in the system the next morning? This would be an important step, especially for sensitive markets such as the food and pharmaceutical industries, as the improved data quality would reduce stock shortages and also avoid production stops that would otherwise often be necessary.

Huge bottlenecks and chaotic developments affecting almost all global supply chains mirror the importance of tracking a product’s path from its start all the way to the end consumer...

In this month's interview we asked Leon Ge Dongliang 10 questions about his company tocco, a Paris based B2B marketplace for low-carbon and regenerative materials.

Every month we interview a European supply chain management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European supply chain management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Dr. Wolfgang Hackenberg, CEO of SYNAOS, a promising intralogistics software company based in Hannover, Germany.

Every month we interview a European Supply Chain Management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European Supply Chain Management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Harald Nitschinger, CEO & Co-Founder at Prewave, a supply chain visibility and risk monitoring platform headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Every month we interview a European Supply Chain Management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European Supply Chain Management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Giacomo Franchini, Founder of SupplHi, a best of breed Vendor Management platform developed for the global market of B2B industrial equipment and services, headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Every month we interview a European Supply Chain Management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European Supply Chain Management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Sjoerd de Jager, Managing Director at PortXchange, headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, providing a software platform that allows port authorities and shipping lines to efficiently manage various operations during port calls.

Every month we interview a European Supply Chain Management startup to shed some light on its business, provide a platform for visibility and overall support the European Supply Chain Management startup ecosystem. This time we interviewed Fabio Herle, EPM - Head of EMEAI Markets at Pactum, headquartered in Mountain View, USA with Engineering and Operations being based in Tallinn, Estonia. Pactum is an AI-based system that helps global companies to conduct autonomous, personalized, commercial negotiations on a massive scale.