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Gebrüder Weiss and SMR AMT Hungary win Supply Chain Excellence Awards

Supply Chain Movement

At Translog Connect Congress in Budapest (Hungary) on November 27, 2013 professor Sebastian Kummer announced Gebrüder Weiss and SMR AMT Hungary as the winners and handed out the awards at the Award ceremony. Translog will be taking place again in November, 2014 in Budapest. Direct distribution system.

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New download: SCM Map Europe 2014-2015

Supply Chain Movement

Toy manufacturer Lego is currently building an enormous, sustainable factory in Hungary, and also has concrete plans for its first production facility in China. SCM Map Europe 2014-2015. Not all bad news. Companies are now having to source more locally in order to ensure that they can continue to produce for the local market.”. >>Please

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“We want people in the supply chain to be multi-skilled” – Henri-Xavier Benoist

Supply Chain Movement

In Europe Bridgestone employs 12,000 staff, has sales organisation clustered in 6 sub-regions, nine manufacturing plants (in Spain, Poland, Belgium, France, Italy, and Hungary), one plant. He is making it his job to ensure that the thousands of distribution points across Europe can rely on fast, reliable deliveries, but not at any cost.

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Jeroen van Weesep: ‘Make more room for intuition and trust’

Supply Chain Movement

In June of this year, he was voted Supply Chain Professional 2014. With factories in Denmark, Mexico, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it produces a mind-blowing 40 billion Lego bricks a year. By Caroline Linssen. The majority of Lego’s sales nowadays comes from themed models in product series such as City, Star Wars and Friends.

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

The British company is owner of Unitymedia KabelBW (Germany), UPC (The Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania), VTR (Chile) and Liberty (Puerto Rico). This article was first published in Supply Chain Movement Q2 – 2014.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

eMag is a Romanian marketplace with presence in Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland as well. Launched in 2014, Kilimall operates in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. With no monthly membership fees and commission rates as low as 4% , the marketplace is highly competitive. The marketplace doesn’t charge any monthly fees.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. Acquisitions dominated the logistics headlines in 2014 and that trend is continuing this year.