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logistics real estate

Trends

Huge decline in take-up of logistics real estate in Europe this year

The European logistics real estate markets are severely affected by the coronavirus crisis. If the situation returns to ‘normal’ by 1 October, take-up in the nine main logistics property markets will be 32% lower this …

transport innovation

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Transport innovation aimed at saving 40 million truck kilometres

Chep Benelux – the global market leader in pallet and container pooling services – has joined a Dutch innovation programme to save 40 million truck kilometres annually by improving transport efficiency. Chep’s database of pallet …

David Prinselaar

Planning, Trends

David Prinselaar, AkzoNobel: “IBP has helped us collaborate in a structured way”

David Prinselaar joined AkzoNobel in 2015 as the company was formulating a vision to transform the supply chain. While enthusiastic to make change, implementing a major transformation was, at that time, not straightforward. A thwarted …

times of crisis

Planning, Trends

Better planning in times of crisis

The coronavirus outbreak has turned supply chains upside down. While medical equipment is almost impossible to get hold of, demand for many other products has declined and sometimes even completely evaporated. In the meantime, management …

Experience the power of remote supply chain learning

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Experience the power of remote supply chain learning

Supply Chain Media and Involvation organized the webinar "Experience the power of remote supply chain learning" on Thursday May 28 2020. 62 Attendees joined the webinar live. Companies are currently in the “sense and respond” mode. …

supply chain recovery map

Software, Trends

Supply chain recovery map shows progress per sector following coronavirus crisis

Real-time monitoring of how European supply chains are recovering from the coronavirus crisis is possible on the website of supply chain visibility specialist Shippeo. “The transport activities around factories and warehouses have been increasing again …

Uber Freight

Trends

Uber Freight and BluJay join forces to optimize transport activities

Uber Freight is partnering up with BluJay Solutions, a supplier of supply chain software and services, to help businesses to build a resilient, global supply chain using advanced freight technology. Due to global changes and the …

Contact Tracer

Software, Trends

Contact Tracer protects warehouse employees

A new solution from Körber called the InSight Contact Tracer can help to mitigate the impact of coronavirus in distribution operations. Contact Tracer is a strategic supply chain tool that tracks the locations of people, …

Ahold Delhaize

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Unprecedented first quarter for Ahold Delhaize

Supermarket group Ahold Delhaize, parent company of Albert Heijn, can look back on an “unprecedented” first quarter. The coronavirus outbreak sparked panic buying among many consumers, resulting in empty shelves. The retail company is now …

visual SCM Software survey 2020

Software, Trends

Supply Chain Media launches innovative SCM Software Survey 2020

Companies and their supply chains are going through challenging times because of megatrends like globalization, digitalization, sustainability and the Covid-19 pandemic. The wants and needs of customers are also changing. To address these challenges and …