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Supply chain planning and design news with a focus on the Nordics and the DACH region: a quick briefing every weekday morning, a book worth your time every Saturday and a fifteen-minute week in review every Sunday. Disruptions, trade and macro signals, planning technology and AI, real company use cases, the events worth your time and the books behind good planning.

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Daily · 26 October 2026 · 2 min

Mon 26 Oct: Bring's New Border Hub

A quiet weekend in planning news. Bring opens Logistikcenter Moss, its largest parcel terminal by sorting capacity, as Swedish e-commerce flows into Norway keep growing. Plus the dates to watch: the EU small-parcel fee, Gartner's planning summit and Logistik & Transport in Gothenburg.

Week in review · 25 October 2026 · 14 min

Week 43: Low Water, Hot Chips, Working Agents

Record-low water on the Rhine and rail works squeeze freight into Germany and Switzerland, while carriers return to Suez and Hormuz stays almost shut. Cisco puts a number on its demand-planning agent, AI data centres compete for chips and air cargo, and DSV, Kuehne+Nagel and Meds report on network changes. Plus SAP and Pigment, EU trade defences against China, and the events ahead.