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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.

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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.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping. While not outrightly linked to this release, Maersk, now a shipping line and forwarder, terminated its key account status.

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Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

population with either same day, next or two-day shipping be leveraging the collective resources of all of Walmart’ s online fulfilment assets including direct ship from store. Austria based KNAPP describes itself as a robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning technology provider.

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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?

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Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

NC State SCRC

And when President Trump went into his briefing today, he started rattling off numbers of masks being shipped…but what gives? So why can’t the masks be distributed? The Federal Government is seeking to prioritize distribution of masks to California, New York, and Washington, where the epidemic is rampant.

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Doing Business in Switzerland

QAD

Switzerland is east of France and north of Italy, also bordered by Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany. The population distribution varies according to the area’s elevation, with the higher Alps in the south limiting settlement. At 41,277 sq km, it is slightly less than twice the size of the US state of New Jersey.