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An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport. Opinion Editorial by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Operating Partner at Anchor Group and Mikael Lind, Senior Strategic Research Advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world part 2

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Anchor Group & Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). The transport and logistics industry has started to engage differently in the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference. All job roles in the logistics sector are expected to experience some level of change.

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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). In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs . Part 1–Defining the moment. Most of this, 45.1

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

While this is not exactly the best news to hear, it’s time to move on to this week’s logistics news. The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design. And Walmart recently rolled out extra levies for suppliers using its transportation services. Walmart to buy Alert Innovation.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. We are now seeing an increase in the use of automation, not just within a TMS or WMS, but the digital coordination across all phases of logistics, from shipper to broker to carrier to warehouse.

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Tesla Raises Wages for German Production Workers

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights recent developments involving Tesla’s Germany and Sweden operational workers in efforts to seek a labor union voice. The Swedish Transport Workers Union in turn, whose workers unload Tesla vehicles among four separate ports, are reportedly threatening to blockade the vehicles from entering that country.

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How Carlsberg Sweden Improved Warehouse Productivity with Laser-Guided Vehicles

Logistics Bureau

However, over the last decade, Carlsberg , one of the world’s largest brewing companies, improved warehouse productivity and efficiency at its production and storage facility in Falkenberg, Sweden, by phasing in fully automated full-pallet processes alongside manual picking and consolidation of mixed and part-pallet orders.

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