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The Christmas Tree Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

the majority of trees are grown in Oregon, followed by North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Washington. In Europe most of the real trees are grown in Germany, followed by Denmark, France, Belgium and Great Britain. In the U.S. and over 350 million Christmas trees are growing on these farms at any point in time.

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Amazon News Cycle Accelerates With a Purpose

Supply Chain Matters

Last week included the announced acquisition of warehouse robotics firm Cloostermans-Huwaert NV , a Belgium based tech provider whose technology supports the automated movement and stacking of heavy pallets or totes within warehouse facilities. That includes a recently announced $3.9 Another Warehouse Robotics Acquisition.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Someone even went as far in a Washington Times op-ed to say “It’s worse than 2008, it reassembles 1937…”. View the full post or View the snippet below: I was fortunate to join the Arkieva team in strategy sessions with our Belgium team and European partner – Solventure.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

As I watched the last episode of the Vietnam War, I found the scenes of the commitment of the Vietnam Memorial in 1982 in Washington to be especially poignant. during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­. * * *. If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow. In Flanders fields.

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Welcome to Wilmington!

Arkieva

From our previous post, you can tell that one of those locations is in Antwerp, Belgium. Located in New Castle County, we are a jump, skip and a hop from cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Here at Arkieva we have three offices. Arkieva was founded in Wilmington, DE in 1993. Like the V.P.,

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Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

NC State SCRC

For example, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and other EU countries are putting in curbs to prevent supplies of masks from shipping to neighboring countries – a case of “every man for himself!