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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

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. Amazingly the energy from the wind and solar power heats the sand up to 500 degrees Celsius.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

15 countries, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales declared that they will collaborate towards realizing 100 percent zero emission new trucks and bus sales by 2040.

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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. KICKS , the Nordic region’s leading cosmetics and beauty product retailer, has teamed up with RELEX to give its supply chain operations a complete makeover.

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Arena Brings Together Summer Interns From Across the Globe

Arena Solutions

Juha: In 2021, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in international business and administration at Aalto University’s Mikkeli campus in Finland. Mike: Initially, I was trained on the various platforms (Marketo, Drift, Demandbase, etc.) This year, I was fortunate to obtain the Marketing Ops internship at Arena.

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Major organisational and cultural changes lie ahead for SCM

Supply Chain Movement

The trends of increasing urbanisation and digitisation were covered extensively several times during the Logy Conference in Helsinki, Finland. To illustrate the concept of social proof, the Danish professional explained how she and a colleague had taken the train while abroad. By Martijn Lofvers and Marieke Lenstra.

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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

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Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. While enabling technology is mature, usage of the right buying channel, and thus deploying the most cost-effective process scenario, can only be realized through blended and tailored training approaches during and after the project phase.

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Case Saarioinen: Improving Processes All the Way from Production to the Consumers

RELEX Solutions

Factories 3 in Finland + 1 subsidiary in Estonia. In tandem with the implementation, key Saarioinen staff were trained as users and super-users before the system was rolled out. Saarioinen at a Glance. Finnish convenience foods manufacturer. Company Saarioinen Oy. Employees 1325 (2016). No of SKUs About 900 active products.