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4 Trends in Supply Chain Management

How This Startup Is Solving the Charging Problem When It Comes to Electrification

As supply chain and logistics providers work towards electrifying their fleet of vehicles, one of the hurdles is charging infrastructure.

Israeli startup, Electreon, is trying to ​solve this problem by introducing wireless charging​.

To Tariff or Not to Tariff?

President Elect Trump didn’t waste time in shooting off friendly fire at Mexico and Canada with the ​threat of 25% tariffs on imports​ into the USA from both countries, ranging from autos, energy, food products and more.

Of course, we know this is all part of Trump’s hardline negotiation tactics. There’s not much to gain for any party involved in this case if such tariffs were to be passed through.

What say you?

4 Trends in Supply Chain Management

Here’s​ a deeper dive into four trends in Supply Chain Management:

  1. Robotics
  2. Going big
  3. Subleasing
  4. Supply Chain as a Service

​Read more here​

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