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Germany Raises the Stakes on Corporate Social Responsibility with Supply Chain Due Diligence

Logility

The new act joins relatively recent laws from Switzerland , Norway , the Netherlands , and the European Union to eliminate child and forced labor, improve working conditions, and institute environmentally responsible practices across the global supply chain. .

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Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

crude oil imports from Norway and the number of drivers killed in collisions with railway trains. avoided importing crude oil from Norway. Machine learning (ML), as it exists today, usually does not take causality into account, and instead is merely concerned with prediction based on statistical associations. 2] Michael C.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

million short tons of steel to fortify the coastline from the Franco-Spanish border up to Norway — enough concrete to build 270 Empire State Buildings! Elemica Delivers Predictive Visibility to Global Industrial Supply Chains. Data and predictions have been all over the map. Bloomberg). How will it impact productivity?

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How Big Data is Changing Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

In conjunction with the latest analytics technology, big data enables companies to quickly gain useful knowledge from massive volumes of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources. For example, Microsoft partnered with Powel, a water systems provider in Norway, to define an IoT system that detected water wastage.

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The Global Impact of ZEV Mandates on the U.S. Auto Industry

QAD

Norway takes the lead with a complete-ZEV market by 2025 and is followed by Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and China’s Hainan province with a 2030 target date. . Additional states have already adopted California’s previous goal for 2050 and are predicted to shift toward California’s new standard in the next legislative cycle. .

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

21% of respondent shippers expected their LSP to be able to provide expertise and services in the area of predictive analytics in the future, with a further 15% expecting their LSP to already have expertise in this area and to provide services in the near future. Mozambique. Netherlands. Netherlands Antilles. New Caledonia.

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

21% of respondent shippers expected their LSP to be able to provide expertise and services in the area of predictive analytics in the future, with a further 15% expecting their LSP to already have expertise in this area and to provide services in the near future. Mozambique. Netherlands. Netherlands Antilles. New Caledonia.