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This Week in Logistics News (October 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Reports 2014 Third-quarter Results. UPS Ready for 2014 Peak Season, Forecasting Record Holiday Deliveries. Amazon Opens 3 Logistics Centers in Poland (ABC News). 2014 is turning into the year to refresh your corporate tagline, at least for third party logistics (3PL) and software companies. Con-way Inc.

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New download: SCM Map Europe 2014-2015

Supply Chain Movement

In Poland, Volkswagen is opening a new factory for the Crafter van and Fiat is investing hundreds of millions of euros in its Polish factory for its compact 500 model. SCM Map Europe 2014-2015. “Logistically speaking the location of this manufacturing facility, which produces the Peugeot 508 and the Citroën C5, makes little sense.”

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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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SCM World 2014 Chief Supply Chain Officer Report: A Conversation with Kevin O’Marah – Part IV

BlueYonder

If I am going to produce for the European market, it may make sense to make products in Poland or the Czech Republic. If I am going to produce for the American market, it makes a lot of sense to be in the U.S., or at least Mexico. And the same applies to any other regional supply chain strategy.

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TransPoland 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Venue: Warsaw International Expocentre EXPO XXI, Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw Transport and Logistics International Exhibition – Trans Poland – is a professional B2B event. Trans Poland offers visitors and participants the opportunity to expand their know-how and to meet numerous potential business partners. TransPoland 2016.

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TransPoland 2015

Supply Chain Movement

Venue: Warsaw International Expocentre EXPO XXI, Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw Transport and Logistics International Exhibition – Trans Poland 2014 is a professional B2B event. >> For the post show report, 2014, please click here! TransPoland 2015. Date: 4-6 November 2015. Organiser: ITE Group Plc. URL: [link].

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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.