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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Fossil fuel proponents like to claim that oil and coal are the only “rainy day” energy source out there. BBC reported recently on how this was being applied in Finland for storing wind and solar power in a community using 100 tons of low-grade sand and a giant, silo looking storage building.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This article focuses on the most relevant initiatives, the five zero (5Zs) emission initiatives contributing to decarbonizing logistics and transport to place these initiatives into the industry context and reflect on them in light of the ongoing industry discussions and developments (see figure 1). About the Authors.

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Ukraine and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

The real objective is the Finlandization of Georgia. … The Finlandization of Georgia would give Russia control of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which is the only significant westbound route for Caspian Sea oil and gas that does not go through Russia. ” The agricultural sector will also be impacted by the conflict.

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Ukraine Conflict Now Tops the List of Supply Chain Risks

Enterra Insights

He wrote, “For supply chain leaders, especially those running global organizations with center-led functional executives in charge of manufacturing, sourcing and logistics, the temptation is to ignore politics as an externality and concentrate instead on the known-knowns of costs, capacity and lead-times. ” Concluding Thoughts.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Focusing on the transport & logistics; we are establishing ten Transportation Management Centres (TMC) worldwide that will be located on the Arabic peninsular, China, Singapore, India, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Brazil and the USA. If you want to read more …. please subscribe on tablet to read the full version>> or.

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Thoughts on Making Money with Bitcoin!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Some people think that he is actually a group of people working together to create Bitcoin, while others believe that he is a computer programmer from Finland named Vili Lehdonvirta. Bitcoin is based on an open-source technology that allows several users to interact with the network throughout the world.

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Mozambique takes Claritum beyond 70 operating countries

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Stretching from South Africa to Finland and from Spain to New Zealand (diametric opposites on the globe.) Providing sourcing events, procurement processes and catalogues to manage spend and provide significant and sustainable savings for all our users. Mozambique makes it 70 countries!