Solutions for operations

Public procurement teams deal with a familiar challenge: too much information, too many documents, and too little time. Preparing a tender, defining requirements, and evaluating bids often means navigating large amounts of data spread across multiple stakeholders and systems.

Some of our recent public-sector projects show how AI can help. Together, they covered almost the entire procurement lifecycle, from defining needs and drafting tender documents to evaluating supplier proposals. The result was not a glimpse into some distant future, but a practical demonstration of where AI already creates value today and where human expertise remains essential.

Two critical vulnerabilities have been found in PHP, a technology widely used for websites and web applications. An attacker could exploit an affected server simply by sending it a specially crafted web request, without needing to log in.

The PHP project released fixes on October 21, 2026. SAP and Microsoft core platforms are not known to be affected, but PHP-based applications running in or around those environments may be.

If your organization uses PHP, identify where it is running and check whether an update is required.

Belgium-based ingredients supplier COSUCRA helps customers to be the best option on the shelf, ready to meet new dietary needs and consumption trends worldwide. CEO Eric Bosly discussed sustainable operations and the drive towards Net Zero.

Sustainability is a strong ingredient within operations at COSUCRA. After a long journey, COSUCRA’s belief in having a strong CSR plan and working hard to implement it has borne fruit with the award of B Corp certification.

“In the field of CSR, there are numerous certifications, more or less well-known, more or less serious, more or less difficult,” explained CEO Eric Bosly. “We decided to go for the one we felt had the best international reputation. This certification process took almost two years and has reviewed in depth all our processes focusing on evidence, indicators and not on slogans.”

On a busy packaging line, an alert flags a label change. It’s the fourth notification that shift, buried among others, in a language the operators don’t read fluently. They miss it. The impact: hours of rework and thousands of euros of waste cost. Was it a technology failure? No. An operator failure? Not really either. What failed was everything around it. Raf Swinnen, business development lead at Maecos, and Rens Bonnez, Lead Architect & Tech Strategist at delaware, explain why people, not platforms, are what actually cuts food waste, or lets it slide.