A franchisee is not a distributor. That distinction sounds like semantics until a customer complaint lands on your desk about a product bought at a
In August 2026, Karnataka’s food safety officials sealed a Zepto dark store in Hoskote. Maharashtra suspended Blinkit facilities in Malad, Dharavi and
Ask a brand manager who owns grey market diversion and the answer is almost always “marketing” or “legal.” Ask a distributor who is losing margin to the
Search “supply chain risk management software” and every result ranks the same handful of categories: supplier financial health, ESG scoring, cyber risk,
A manufacturer finishes rolling out a new ERP system. Production scheduling is tighter, inventorycounts are finally accurate, and the plant floor
The EU Digital Product Passport isn’t a future policy proposal anymore, it’s a regulation with a live enforcement date. ESPR, the framework the DPP sits
An airbag looks the same whether it’s genuine or not, right up until the moment it’s supposed to deploy. That single fact is what makes counterfeit
Ask a compliance team what “traceability” means and most will describe a folder: certificates of origin, supplier declarations, a paper trail that can be
Every brand that got asked “can you prove where this came from” in the last two years said yes, and pointed to their ERP. Most of them were telling the
