by Jurgen Frasch | May 1, 2026 | Sourcing/Procurement/SRM
In today’s volatile markets, businesses must evolve from reactive planning to structured adaptability. Integrated business planning (IBP) provides the framework to do so — connecting strategy, finance, operations and execution so organizations can act with clarity and...
by Jurgen Frasch | Apr 30, 2026 | Sourcing/Procurement/SRM
For decades, global supply chains were built around the need to maximize efficiency, by placing production wherever costs were lowest and scale was easiest to achieve. That logic shaped investment flows, acquisition strategies, and operating models across nearly every...
by Jurgen Frasch | Apr 24, 2026 | Sourcing/Procurement/SRM
A shipment delay used to mean a late truck or a missed handoff. Today, a portal that doesn’t load correctly or a tracking page that fails to update can have the same result. When that happens, the impact moves quickly across the supply chain.Recent findings from...
by Jurgen Frasch | Apr 24, 2026 | Sourcing/Procurement/SRM
Getting “first-mile” visibility of soft commodities is a hard problem.Last year saw the Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cocoa, forced to buy up unsold stocks when it encountered a sudden price slump that stalled exports and left a lot of product sitting...
