Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Industry Association Events (in chronological order) Event Name Date Location NRF ‘24 (Supply Chain 360) January 14 – 16 New York, NY Logistics & Automation January 24 – 25 Bern, Switzerland SMART LOGISTICS Expo January 24 – 26 Tokyo, Japan Manifest February 5 – 7 Las Vegas, NV ARC Industry Leadership Forum February 5 – 8 Orlando, FL RILA (..)

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Netherlands-based online grocery store Picnic Technology raised €355 million in investor capital as part of plans to expand into France and Germany. The biggest capital infusions into existing companies occurred in delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2024

The influx of people and goods into France for the Olympics has placed significant pressure on ports, airports, and roads, leading to delays and disruptions in the movement of goods. This is why the planning process for the Olympics is a multi-year endeavor.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 14, 2025

INSEAD (France/Singapore) INSEAD’s MBA program offers a supply chain management specialization. HEC Paris (France) HEC Paris HEC Paris offers a Master in Management program with a specialization in Operations and Supply Chain Management.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But with the escalation of hostilities – and now the broad impact on maritime flows – the US has announced the launch of Operation Prosperity Guardian which will work alongside CMF 153 to address the Houthi threat and will include support from the US, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Joan has a master’s degree in digital marketing strategy from Georgetown University, and a master’s degree in business from ESSCA Business School in France. Prior to Oracle, Joan held product marketing and strategy positions at Unilever, Qualcomm, Amadeus IT Group and various start-ups focusing on cloud applications and supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

At Infor Nexus’s European Advisory Customer Council meeting in Chamonix, France, Mr. Trevor told the audience, “Fast fashion is crap…” Customers should buy clothes that are “well made and have longevity.” The company takes back used garments, refurbishes them, and adds clever artwork to the garment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2019

The US Women’s National Soccer Team has won a fourth World Cup championship in Lyon, France last Sunday. They’ve done it again! This victory also marked back-to-back World Cup championships, which is the first time a women’s team has accomplished the feat, joining only men’s winners Italy (1934, 1938) and Brazil (1958, 1962).

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Kinaxis

MARCH 26, 2019

If you accept a French MasterCard in France, then you have to accept also an Italian MasterCard. If you deliver within France, then a German Customer may provide an alternative delivery address in France for his order, and the shop has to deliver. Stop denying foreign European credit cards.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

France was forced to destroy 10 million liters of beer — the equivalent of four Olympic-sized swimming pools — due to the pandemic, as beer needs to be consumed fresh. The popularity of Oktoberfest goes beyond all borders and normally the beer industry as a whole would benefit; but this year there won’t be much going on.

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Freightos

APRIL 6, 2020

In addition, they can book real-time capacity on key airlines including British Airways, Iberia, Air France-KLM, and Lufthansa. With WebCargo Sky, forwarders can instantly price air freight shipments from nearly every global airline. Since 2008, WebCargo has helped top forwarders automate rate management and back-office operations.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 24, 2014

Headquartered in Paris, France, Dassault Systèmes is a world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Advance Quintiq’s goals? Be good for our customers? Be good for our partners? Be good for our employees? The answer to all was a resounding yes. Dassault Systèmes.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

It is not only nearshoring locations like Mexico, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia who benefit from this change, but also on-shoring locations in major markets like Germany, the UK, France and the US themselves are getting more and more new production plants.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 15, 2023

STACI’s services include multi-channel integrated fulfillment solutions (direct to customer, retail, and wholesale customers), kitting, complex packaging, logistics and warehousing. Staci Group Acquires Amware Fulfillment to create strong global fulfillment capability. The combined company now has 81 fulfillment centers across the U.S.,

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This is the largest customer climate commitment made by any B2B company, and our calculations show that this reduction could equate to 2% of the world’s annual emissions— or, the annual emissions of Italy, France and the U.K.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2020

Products are stored at an 84,000 sqm space in France which manages the distribution of tires across the whole of France and some neighboring countries. Considering all channels, Allopneus is currently the market leader, with sales of 3.7 million tires in 2018 – equating to around 10% of the market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For example, the Philipines might have been 2 months while France took over 4 months. Johnny said that for the most part, the implementations stayed both on time and on budget. Implementation timeframes varied by the country, depending on the level of sophistication. Part of this falls to partner relationships as well.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Joan has a master’s degree in digital marketing strategy from Georgetown University, and a master’s degree in business from ESSCA Business School in France. Prior to Oracle, Joan held product marketing and strategy positions at Unilever, Qualcomm, Amadeus IT Group and various start-ups focusing on cloud applications and supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The Energy Observer project started in France in 2017 with support from French industries. Here sits an energy management system complete with not only details about power generation, but also details about the desalinization system that produces drinking water for the five to six crew members’ consumption.

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IT Supply Chain

JANUARY 10, 2025

By Nick France (pictured) CTO of Sectigo The post The risks and concerts of digital wallets appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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QAD

MARCH 12, 2020

Switzerland is east of France and north of Italy, also bordered by Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany. The strength and volatility of the Swiss franc is creating additional challenges, and global competition is exacerbating this effect by increasing costs for raw materials, labor, and energy compared to other regions. France and China.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Currently, France, the Nordics, the DACH region and the MSE headquarters in Minden are using DCH to run a monthly collaborative demand planning process. Increase of statistical forecast accuracy by 3.2% (KPI: WMAPE) in first six months after go-live of the pilot in France. More efficiently manage promotions.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Currently, France, the Nordics, the DACH region and the MSE headquarters in Minden are using DCH to run a monthly collaborative demand planning process. Increase of statistical forecast accuracy by 3.2% (KPI: WMAPE) in first six months after go-live of the pilot in France. ?“Thanks More efficiently manage promotions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Technicolor Connected Home, a division of Technicolor based in France, used speed to connect to ensure their teams could plan collaboratively. And they did so without significant buffering, because concurrency gave them speed to detect and correct supply and demand imbalances.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This includes wineries in California, Italy, France, and others. And this does not just apply to hops. For wineries, the drought and wildfires have resulted, in some cases, in a fully lost harvest to make wine. These lost crops will result in lower availability of wine, thus driving up the costs.

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Freightos

AUGUST 31, 2016

Following a successful pilot in France, forwarders can now send booking requests directly from their pricing platform. Today every airline in the 80 larger air freight markets has signed up, as have some airlines in another 60 smaller air freight markets. Two years ago they partnered with ECS Group to offer online freight booking.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Paris, France February 13, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the agenda for the European edition of its marquee annual event series, Ivalua NOW 2020.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Fifteen new startups from Belgium, China, France, India, South Africa and the U.S. This represents a major step forward in our mission to lead the digital transformation of life sciences in the age of personalized medicine and patient-centic experience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Trane ’s Tom France, Vice President, Global Distribution, Logistics and Transportation, recently stressed the need for E2E insight: “Extend visibility as much as you can throughout your supply chain. This is the portion of E2E that is most commonly referred to as “real-time transportation visibility”.

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Kinaxis

MAY 16, 2025

Denmark, France, and others have homegrown movements while industry groups are lobbying for larger initiatives, such as Buy European in the EU. Orchestrated supply chains, collaboration, and agility will be enduring advantages, particularly as competition for diverse sources and suppliers heats up.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Some manufacturing sites are more focused on regional markets and on mass-market consumer products, others – mostly small branches in the US, France, and Japan – act on global scale for luxury segment. Operations complexity that came with growth and globalization is intense.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2014

S&OP continues to be a trending topic within the manufacturing industry.” – Alice Berthier, Marketing Manager France. “The post is easy to read with excellent insights from a successful webinar. Small is the new big: Millennials and the future of retail. How do you keep hyper-connected, tech-savvy customers happy?

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QAD

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

km and borders the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and other countries including the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. France, China, Netherlands, the U.K., The country has a total area of 357,022 sq. Its population is evenly distributed across the country.

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Demand Driven Technologies

APRIL 17, 2024

When, ten years ago, I began to take an interest in the subject and to promote Demand Driven tactics in France, it was because they echoed in a relevant way my then almost 30 years of industrial experience in several industries. The world of supply chain experts loves a good turf war. What appealed to. Read more Source

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

EcoVadis is a purpose driven, for profit corporation based in Paris, France. Once a year, EcoVadis clients request that their suppliers perform EcoVadis’ annual assessment of a supplier’s sustainability performance, which includes the carbon assessment.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2017

One business, where finance was not involved in S&OP, was crushed by a rapid currency appreciation in the Swiss franc that made its products too pricey for the market. In another Gartner report, How to Create an Effective S&OP That Drives Results , the research firm relates an example of two companies.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2023

The company will launch an online marketplace in Mexico followed by rollouts in Germany, Spain, France and Italy during the third quarter of 2023.

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