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Do We Really Need a New Smart Phone Every Two Years?

SCM Research

A new United Nations University report, titled The Global E-waste Monitor 2014 , details e-waste generation by region. The total amount of e-waste generated in 2014 is 41.8 The top per capita producers, however, are Norway (28.3 The Global E-waste Monitor – 2014. This e-waste comprises 12.8 Mt of small equipment (e.g.,

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How America's Clean Coal Dream Unravelled

Supply Chain Brain

The $7.5bn Kemper power plant once drew officials from as far as Saudi Arabia, Japan and Norway to marvel at a 21st-century power project so technologically complex its builder compared it to the moonshot of the 1960s. It’s promise? Energy from “clean coal.” “I’m

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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

If you’re a supply chain or logistics executive and you’re looking for ways to improve as a leader this year, here are my five recommendations that I first made in 2014 but still apply today: 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives. Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions for 2018? Max was 11-for-11.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Fertilizer company Yara International has teamed up Kongsberg to build the Yara Birkeland, which will haul fertilizers between three ports in southern Norway, saving 40,000 truck journeys per year.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Coolshop is a Denmark based marketplace and has expanded its presence into Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. 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.

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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.