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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Denmark’s DSV eyes more big acquisitions in fragmented freight market (Reuters). As the Wall Street Journal reported: FedEx is opening four new hubs and “dozens” of small, satellite facilities to receive, sort and ship an expected surge in packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas, executives said this week.

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How to address Cultural Differences in S&OP

Supply Chain Trend

In feminine countries like the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden, the preference is to resolve conflicts through negotiation and compromise. This post first appeared in the Journal of Business Forecasting and on [link]. Photo credit: [link].

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Shortages of coolant set to impact the semiconductor industry

Resilinc

According to Cooling Post , a trade journal for the refrigerant industry, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are also pushing the EU to restrict the use of PFAS used in manufacturing common refrigerants HFC and HFO. Belgium, for example, is urging an EU-wide ban on use of the substances.

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Happy New Year 2023

Enterra Insights

” A few years ago, journalist Elizabeth Harris reported that an academic paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, entitled “Buying Time Promotes Happiness,” concluded, “Working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase than on a material purchase.”[4]