A sea change in global commerce is underway. Power struggles, climate change and the imperative to protect supply chain continuity in an increasingly tumultuous world all require a refactoring of ...

A Value Chain is a set of activities that a company performs in order to deliver its product or service for the market. The concept was introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, ...

Constant disruptions, geopolitical challenges, climate change and emerging technologies have driven manufacturing companies to rethink their value chains. However, despite the strategic intent to do ...

Discover how value chain analysis enhances business efficiency, optimizes costs, and delivers competitive advantage through step-by-step assessment.

It is no longer enough for businesses simply to know and hold themselves accountable for their direct actions—what they make, how they make it, whom they buy from and to whom they sell. Geopolitical ...

Traceability has become an imperative for fashion brands, particularly in the light of fast evolving environmental regulations. According to the State of Fashion 2024 report, 87% of fashion executives ...

Now that we have outlined the different parts of a card payments value chain, we can explore how issuing banks can optimise their value chain. How is the card payment value chain structured? And what ...

Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s biggest consumer electronics firm—illustrates that most of their ...

Nasarawa State pledges to sustain the FGN/IFAD Value Chain Development Programme beyond 2026, ensuring continued food ...

From chatbots writing poetry to algorithms helping doctors read scans, the headlines make it feel like a revolution is unfolding. But for market observers, the question isn’t whether AI matters, but ...

The early Natural Language Processing models trained in 2018 were only able to perform visual search/image recognition and contained less than 100 million parameters. The role of database companies in ...

Despite more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and operations, Brittany LaValley, the vice president of materials advancement at The Recycling Partnership (TRP), says her journey to the ...