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Delivery is the Product: Takeaways from Transplace’s Shipper Symposium 2018

Talking Logistics

“Consumers are the disruptive force today, not technology.”. As I listened to Mr. Hughes’ presentation, it struck me that he was right: all of these technologies, in many ways, are a response to the demands we consumers are placing on supply chains. Emerging Technologies: Bridging the Gap Between Hype and Reality.

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Case Saarioinen: Improving Processes All the Way from Production to the Consumers

RELEX Solutions

It’s a market leader within the ready meals segment at home and has production and sales in Estonia as well. Saarioinen doesn’t aim to keep inventory as it’s in everyone’s interests to keep freshness paramount and spoilage levels at a minimum already early on in the supply chain. Factories 3 in Finland + 1 subsidiary in Estonia.