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Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

Many events exist in North America, Europe, and Asia. Welcome 2024! This year, as with years in the past, there is a broad and deep line-up of supply chain and logistics conferences to attend. Industry association events are being held in the winter, spring, summer, and fall.

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Volkswagen Selects Canada for North America Battery Production

Supply Chain Matters

The global automaker has previously indicated a strategy to establish regionally based EV supply networks to support the major markets of Europe , China , and North America. Inflation Reduction Act , which fosters consumer incentives to purchase EV vehicles if 50 percent of major battery components are produced in North America.

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Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

From FreeVectorMaps.com Industry Association Events (in chronological order) Event Name Date Location ProMat March 20 – 23 Chicago, IL SiTL March 28 – 30 Paris, France LogiMAT April 25 – 27 Stuttgart, Germany NRF Supply Chain 360 April 26 – 28 Long Beach, CA WERC Annual June 4 – 7 Orlando, FL Home Delivery World June 14 – (..)

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Bitcoin is the Rising Cryptocurrency in Latin America!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The figure is promising as you look at South America’s or Latin America’s data with the promotion and expansion of Bitcoin And crypto. In Latin America , we see a good surge of ideas like Web 3, which offers good generalizations about the open-source of the web. Technologies emerging in Latin America.

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Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It is not only nearshoring locations like Mexico, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia who benefit from this change, but also on-shoring locations in major markets like Germany, the UK, France and the US themselves are getting more and more new production plants.

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This Week in Supply Chain News (February 19 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Particularly affected are routes from Asia to Germany, experiencing a remarkable 55% increase in transit times, resulting in an average delay of 12 days. According to the Bank of America Institute, by early 2023 the pandemic caused retailers to have too much stock on their hands. This added to downward inflationary pressure.

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End-to-end Supply Chain Visibility Calls for Addressing the Unique Needs of Europe

Logistics Viewpoints

Europe is also more complex than North America, given factors such as the sheer number of countries and the wide variability in policies, infrastructure and the like. For Germany, it’s unanimous at 100%. The European supply chain industry is comparable in size — by some measures bigger — than the North American supply chain industry.