article thumbnail

Peril of EV Start-Ups: Fisker’s Investor Warning

Supply Chain Matters

According to a published report by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ), this asset light company has recently elected to transition its business model to an auto dealership based vehicle distribution model. This auto designer’s original plan was a direct to consumer vehicle distribution and delivery model, similar to that of Tesla.

article thumbnail

The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

What should the distribution network look like, which activities should be combined and what does the service level look like? The same applies to integrating brick and mortar retail with the online store as well as to distribution and fulfilment centres. Seamless integration promotes fast and flexible growth.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Sky Deutschland, Teleplan and DHL open a new European distribution centre

Supply Chain Movement

distribution and reverse supply chain centre at Panattoni Park Cheb, in the Czech Republic. Based on a new five-year contract DHL Supply Chain, in cooperation with other partners, will provide standard storage services, inbound and distribution for Sky Deutschland. The new distribution centre provides Sky Deutschland’s over 4.6

article thumbnail

Doing Business in Germany

QAD

km and borders the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and other countries including the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Its population is evenly distributed across the country. Italy, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Austria and Switzerland.

Germany 104
article thumbnail

Gebrüder Weiss establish control tower concept for Hilti

Supply Chain Movement

In 2013 Gebrüder Weiss was honoured in the service provider category for developing its control tower concept, a logistics system that provides better information which was established for Hilti CEE distribution. Which improvements did you introduce for Hilti’s CEE distribution? How did this contribute to your client’s success?

Austria 87
article thumbnail

Can you win with a broken chain?

Kinaxis

During his race run in Leogang, Austria, Gwin’s chain broke a few pedal strokes out of the starting gate. Supporting a direct-to-customer model will surely increase the complexity of their distribution operations and order fulfillment. In downhill racing, where every second counts, a broken chain usually spells disaster.

article thumbnail

Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

Noted is that a pilot implementation in a Walmart New Jersey distribution facility doubled existing storage capacity along with doubling the number of customer orders able to be fulfilled in a day. Austria based KNAPP describes itself as a robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning technology provider.