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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Fossil fuel proponents like to claim that oil and coal are the only “rainy day” energy source out there. BBC reported recently on how this was being applied in Finland for storing wind and solar power in a community using 100 tons of low-grade sand and a giant, silo looking storage building. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. Vanderlande is a member of Toyota Industries Corporation within the Toyota Advanced Logistics Group. SWISSLOG is a business and reportable segment of the KUKA Group. Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. Amazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland. As a result, the Olympics will take place without spectators. Descartes acquires GreenMile.

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Eurozone Economy Now in Technical Recession

Supply Chain Matters

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , sizable changes to data from Germany, Ireland and Finland prompted the revision. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. The agency had previously reported in the first quarter GDP had grown in the first quarter, albeit slightly.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Anchor Group & Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). Møller–Maersk, Deutsche Post DHL Group, and Yara International joined the coalition as founding members. Wolfgang Lehmacher is operating partner at Anchor Group and advisor at Topan AG. Part 1–Defining the moment. Amazon, A.P.

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Swedish Cosmetics Retailer KICKS Reviews IT Portfolio and Chooses RELEX for Supply Chain Management

RELEX Solutions

RELEX will provide a solution tailored to the needs of the retailer’s online channel and 250 stores across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. When the company reviewed its IT portfolio and replaced its ERP system, it also decided to source specialist best-of-breed forecasting and replenishment tools. KICKS is part of the Axel Johnson Group.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Under the divisions we have 20+ business units and on top of that we have 126 different product groups, 450 production plants and a similar number of projects such as sub-stations, laying power cables across continents and seas, or providing the infrastructure to manage the electricity grid of entire countries.”.