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Kappahl Selects ToolsGroup to Support Its Thriving and Growing Fashion Brand

ToolsGroup

With approximately 340 brick-and-mortar stores and a bustling ecommerce site, the retailer offers responsibly-produced, everyday fashion to customers in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, and the UK. Today, more than 80% of the products are made of certified and/or preferred materials.

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Supply Chain Impacts from Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Logistics Viewpoints

Its largest export markets are Russia, China, Germany, Poland, and Italy. The country’s major service export sectors include air transport; business, professional, and technical services; sea transport, and information services. However, Ukraine’s service economic is substantial as well.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. Today’s challenges require informed decision-making. The trucking industry was down 80,000 drivers in 2021, and that shortage is anticipated to balloon to 160,000 by 2030. It’s a global problem. million to 75.3

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From the Barley in the Fields, to the Beer in Our Hands: Carlsberg’s Sustainability Journey

BlueYonder

Carlsberg has also introduced electric trucks and established a specialized transportation control tower in Poznan, Poland. This reporting capability also informs further investments for the future, knowing with surety that electric trucks, for example, will have a positive effect on overheads, as well as net zero goals.

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Reducing Complexity in Logistics: Isolation is a No-Go, Collaboration is Key

Talking Logistics

First, an exchange of global data and information must occur. For logistics managers, the term “common” is part of the core component of the term “collaboration”: Common processes (physical and informational). Common decisions. Common time horizon. But how can a company achieve successful collaboration?

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The CMA cited suspected breaches of competition law and said its initial information gathering was set to end in September. Some smaller European countries including the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden grew their marketplaces faster than Britain, but from a lower base, Amazon said.

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The results of a national referendum on ‘fair food’ laws: transparency roundup

Provenance

The public information available from 76 of the world’s largest companies shows that just over 60% have committed to SDGs yet only half have translated that into new actions. Food Matters Live have looked at an online survey conducted by the European Food Information Council in 2016 with 2,000 shoppers across UK, Poland, France & Sweden.

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