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

Logistics Viewpoints

Here are some good examples: The Australian retailer Woolworths dominated Australian online trade in the sector food and personal care with a volume of about two billion USD and a market share between 15 and 20 percent within just a few years of entering the online market. Automation as key for growth.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Very positively, these topics have not only been discussed at COP26 but multiple initiatives were launched with some of them having the potential to significantly contribute to decarbonizing the global supply chain network. Also, tools have been developed to enable horizontal partnerships to reduce empty truck miles.

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How 2011 Prepared Us for Today

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But few remember the stress the 2011 event placed on global supply chains. . The interdependence of the global supply chain guaranteed the effects would extend far beyond the Japanese economy. . Thankfully, by 2011 the global supply chain had an arsenal of weapons to help combat the economic aftershocks of the disaster.

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Digital logistics: how manufacturing companies can profit

DELMIA Quintiq

Against a record backdrop of more than 700 congress visitors, the event was all about opportunities for making supply chains more intelligent, efficient and agile through digitalisation. Without IT applications, complex processes in the supply chain cannot be mastered any more. Intelligent planning and optimization.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

HighJump Software Announces Middle East Partnership. We plan to leverage these synergies, and integrate Optima’s proprietary software with our last-mile technology. Last-mile logistics is not new, but it’s certainly a segment of the logistics market that is gaining a lot of attention from 3PLs and technology vendors alike.

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Inventory optimization: German DIY and Garden Center Chain HELLWEG Implements RELEX SCM-Software

RELEX Solutions

With more than 150 DIY and garden centers the HELLWEG group chose RELEX Solutions’ supply chain management software to manage its inventory and master two-stage replenishment via its distribution center. Until recently, the company used inventory management software that it had developed in-house.

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Gebrüder Weiss establish control tower concept for Hilti

Supply Chain Movement

During Translog Connect, held in Budapest on the 25-26 of November 2014, TEG The Events Group – the organiser of the logistics and supply chain management summit, is going to recognise and promote outstanding logistics and supply chain management solutions in the rapidly growing region of CEE again.

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