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The Absolut Company: Balancing Service and Inventory Creates a Delicious Mix

ToolsGroup

That’s also allowing Absolut to keep its production, from sourcing materials to distilling and bottling, anchored in a small corner of southern Sweden.” Through a high level of automation in planning, proactive decision making, and optimized production sequences, challenges were resolved.

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Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

ToolsGroup

They drive benefits such as improved business planning and improved sourcing, procurement and supplier management. Anders Remneback, Product Manager, Optilon AB (Stockholm, Sweden). Additive manufacturing has been used since the 5th century to cast plow components and still has a bright future. Spotlight on 3-D printing dims.

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Using Weather and Climate Data to Improve Demand Forecasting

ToolsGroup

For instance, in a recent application that involved temperature and ice cream, a consumer goods company deployed machine learning to develop a model for five European countries: Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France. Source: NYCCSC. Overall, the demand forecast improvement was significant — averaging 3.8%

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. This spans platform companies connecting fashion manufacturers or commodity traders directly to the buyers.

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Shortages of coolant set to impact the semiconductor industry

Resilinc

Coolant is a key input in chip manufacturing. 3M’s Zwijndrecht, Belgium, plant produces coolant that is essential to the etching process used in semiconductor manufacturing. It’s also worth mentioning that the 3M coolant plant is an example of a single source upon which an entire industry depends for a key input.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

The clean energy technology sector achieved considerable growth with China’s low REE prices and advances in manufacturing technology , growth that some associated with low environmental and social sustainability standards. Nevertheless, over the last few decades the world largely relied on Chinese REE supply.

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American Software Reports Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 Results

Logility

During the quarter, SaaS subscription and/or software license agreements were signed with customers located in the following 11 countries: Australia, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and United States. Logility, Inc., New Generation Computing, Inc.