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The World Today Part 1: The Best Manufacturing Ecosystems Win

Enterra Insights

Factors like automation, massive investments in at-scale, fit-for-purpose technologies, specialized training, low labor rates, and effective demand and supply planning capabilities, have woven themselves like threads into the fabric of efficient global manufacturing ecosystems. So, how do we define a global ecosystem?

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. Top Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014. As each year comes to a close, we all look back on the year that was in reflection. Read Full Post.

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Doing Business in the Netherlands

QAD

The Netherlands is a modern and highly industrialized country located in Western Europe. The Netherlands was one of the founding countries of both the EU and NATO, showing that it is a nation of progressive and forward-thinking people. The Netherlands is the seventh largest economy in the EU. Manufacturing in the Netherlands.

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Supply Chain Investments Represent a Significant Portion of Total VC Investing

Logistics Viewpoints

The Netherlands-based online grocery store Picnic Technology raised €355 million in investor capital as part of plans to expand into France and Germany. They also invested in manufacturing software firms like Plex, Oslo, and AVATA. “Quite simply, the more you invest, the better you get at monetizing breakthrough innovation.”

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Total Supply Chain

Supply Chain Movement

Every time he visits the Netherlands, he talks about Rinus Michels’ and Johan Cruijff’s ‘Oranje’ team, which came so close to winning the World Cup in 1974. Whether big brand manufacturers, small specialist suppliers, logistics service providers, a developer of advanced materials or an IT supplier – they each have their own role.

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Building real solutions for real customers

DELMIA Quintiq

Supply chain and IT professionals handling DELMIA Quintiq implementations within their companies came together on September 26 in the Netherlands. Day 1 will showcase 16 customer presentations from different industries such as metals, manufacturing, aviation and logistics.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 23-27, 2014)

Talking Logistics

According to a study conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the National Retail Federation (NRF), a 10-day stoppage would reduce GDP $2.1 It seems like The Netherlands is aiming to reach that future first. It lasted 10 days and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars. What’s at stake this time?