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Jeroen van Weesep: ‘Make more room for intuition and trust’

Supply Chain Movement

With factories in Denmark, Mexico, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it produces a mind-blowing 40 billion Lego bricks a year. Eighty years after its foundation, The Lego Group is still a privately held family company headquartered in Billund, Denmark. What is your role? There very nearly wasn’t a Lego company to work for anymore….

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

The company is headquartered in Denmark and employs 42,000 people in 77 countries while marketing products in more than 165 countries. Our Demand planning processes are also evolving based on ever-changing business needs. We are stronger in supply than demand. A Closer Look at Results. Opportunities?

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Don’t Let Fresh Go To Waste

ITradeNetwork

In Italy, they’ve passed new laws to encourage all supermarkets to give unsold food to charity, while a charity in Denmark has opened the country’s first-ever surplus food supermarket, Wefood. Already this year, France became the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold food.

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Smartbox Group implements RELEX’s supply chain optimization solution to maximize sales and increase operational efficiency internationally

RELEX Solutions

RELEX Solutions to help Smartbox Group transform its supply chain management, with POS demand planning, replenishment, promotions, and inventory optimization. Through both organic growth and a number of acquisitions, Smartbox has seen substantial growth in recent years, which has subsequently led to a more complex supply chain.

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Mindmap for the Fashion & Luxury Goods Market

Supply Chain Movement

In the global fashion and luxury goods market, ever-higher customer expectations, combined with demographic and economic shifts, are making it increasingly difficult to predict consumer behaviour and plan accordingly. >>Please click on the red button and fill in the fields to activate the green download button. Christmas Island.

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10 questions about supply chain optimisation

Supply Chain Movement

In order to make the best possible supply chain decisions, it is vital to make a distinction between the various optimisation areas: the supply chain network and the associated stock allocation, the usually monthly supply and demand planning, weekly and daily production planning and scheduling, risk mitigation and the cost to serve.