Sustainability in supply chain
In this video you will learn about the various aspects of sustainability in supply chains. You will appreciate why precisely assessing sustainability is usually a highly complex endeavour. You will …
Course: Supply Chain Innovation: How Technology Can Create a Sustainable Future
How can you make innovations happen?
In this step you will learn what types of innovations exist. The role of ICT in supply chain innovations will become clear. Collaboration is key in making it happen. It’s …
How to measure supply chain performance
Innovations are meant to increase supply chain performance. As innovations take effort and investment this should ‘payback. The return does not necessarily need to be financial. Performance improvement Performance improvement …
Examples of supply chain innovation
In this video you will learn about supply chain innovation. You will be introduced to examples in various industries. You will see how new technologies and new supply chain structures …
6 examples of supply chain innovations
The overarching challenge in the next decades will be to design supply chains that meet future economic, environmental and social requirements, in short, that are “people, planet, profit” oriented. There …
What drives sustainable supply chain innovation?
Why do we need to innovate supply chains? In this video we look at developments in the market. Consumer demand is an important driver. We discuss the long tail, illustrating …
What is a supply chain?
In this animation our lead educator Jos van Hillegersberg explains the basic concepts of a supply chain. We also show how product structure and supply chain are related. Make or …
Emergence of global supply chains
In this step we explore the meaning and significance of logistics and supply chain management in the global economy we’re witnessing today. We will investigate why worldwide logistics flows have …
Factors for Successful Supply Chain Management
Supply chains are an indispensable need in any global economy where worldwide sourcing and manufacturing have become the norm, even stronger after the revolutionary developments of Information and Communication Technology …
Modular Construction Systems
The idea behind modular construction systems is that these consist of standard modules that can be designed and produced independent from one another. The modules are made in a factory, …
Smart Distribution Centres
Smart Building Logistics aims to use an inner city construction site as efficiently as possible whereby as little storage as possible takes place on the construction site. In order to …
Challenges for inner city building
In this video we will discuss the major challenges for inner city building that we encounter in our modern world. Ongoing urbanization results in a large increase of inner city …
Why supply chains in construction industry are interesting
What makes the construction supply chain and logistics unique? We will highlight several aspects that make the construction supply chains different compared to supply chains in most other sectors.
Principles of positioning
Basic mechanisms and technologies for positioning and localisation systems are described here. We discuss basic technologies such as GPS. But also more dedicated technologies, like RFID, are explained in this …
Localisation systems
We present the common techniques and technologies that enable location identification in a certain area. Localization in wireless networks is the process of finding a physical location in an automated …
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