Smartmile

Sustainability, Trends

Smartmile and DHL Express partner up for more sustainable deliveries

Smartmile has joined forces with DHL Express in the Netherlands in a pilot project to make parcel deliveries more sustainable. DHL Express is the second carrier that Smartmile has integrated as part of its vision …

high potentials

Trends

Advice to high potentials in supply chain: beware of the generation gap

Today’s high potentials are looking for a job with purpose and want to make an impact – both within the organization and in society as a whole. That can create friction with their managers, who …

Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar ‘Global Reshoring & Footprint Strategy’

To decentralize your manufacturing and distribution or not? More than 60% of the respondents in a new global footprint survey (with very strong participation from European and US companies) are planning to re-shore or on-shore in …

Deliverect

Trends

Deliverect raises $150 million for automation of online meal orders

Deliverect, a Belgian scale-up that simplifies the online management of meal deliveries, has raised US$150 million in a new round of funding. Deliverect’s SaaS platform seamlessly integrates online meal orders across various delivery channels. Over …

Recording

Trends, Webinar Recording

Recording webinar ‘Supply Chain Start-ups in Europe 2022’

The corona pandemic has accelerated the search for supply chain start-ups. This is the conclusion of Ludwig Hausmann, Partner Travel, Logistics and Transport Infrastructure at McKinsey & Company. The annual survey for the Maturity Matrix …

Tesla

Trends

Tesla supply chain: from cautionary tale to role model

Tesla’s full-year results show that it has navigated the supply chain challenges and chip shortages that have frozen the rest of the auto industry. This is a far cry from the electric car company’s embarrassing …

parcel shipments

Trends

Five tactics for mitigating price increases in parcel shipments

The price of parcel and express shipments in Europe is expected to increase by between 4 and 7% this year (4-6% for domestic shipments and 5-7% for cross-border ones), according to the new Transport Monitor …

Alaiko

Trends

Supply chain scale-up in the spotlight: Alaiko

Munich-based company Alaiko is aimed at revolutionizing global e-commerce logistics by digitizing and automating fulfilment processes to put the shopper’s experience first. Today’s consumers not only expect free shipping and next-day delivery, but also wish to …

ASML

Trends

Fire affects ASML’s computer chip machine building activities

A fire at an ASML chip machinery manufacturing plant in Berlin has affected the production of some of its key lithography equipment: the extreme ultra violet (EUV) machines that are used to make extremely small, …

DHL

Trends

DHL: ‘Vaccine and test-kit logistics would never have succeeded without standardization’

Despite all the supply chain disruptions, the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and test kits in Europe and beyond has gone well. Logistics provider DHL, who was responsible for this operation, attributes the smooth-running of the …