Tag: Outsourcing
Security checks at airports: don’t nationalize them straight away!
Hamburg Airport At the airports, the rush is particularly high in the summer travel season. (Photo: dpa) Chaos reigns at many security checks at German airports. That is why the…
Security checks at airports: don’t nationalize them straight away!
Hamburg Airport At the airports, the rush is particularly high in the summer travel season. (Photo: dpa) Chaos reigns at many security checks at German airports. That is why the…
Scholz announces further arms deliveries in Ukraine
Bundeswehr battle tanks In April, Slovenia, among others, received Leopard 2 tanks from Germany in exchange for supplying their weapons to Ukraine. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has…
Expert opinion warns of strict supply chain law
Copper mine in Botswana The EU wants to ensure that companies only work with suppliers of raw materials and other suppliers who respect human rights. (Photo: imago/Aurora Photos) Berlin The…
Ukraine war: car manufacturers help wiring harness suppliers
Production of the Porsche Panamera Hybrid Routing the wiring harnesses is one of the first steps in assembling a car. If the important connecting elements are missing, production usually comes…
ECJ gives green light for EU rule of law mechanism
ECJ in Luxembourg The European Court of Justice has declared a new regulation to punish violations of the rule of law in the EU to be legal. (Photo: dpa) Luxembourg…
How insurers deal with their legacy portfolios
Interest on life insurance High guarantees from the past are a heavy burden for life insurers. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt, Munich The news came shortly before the turn of the year,…
Will Nokia’s risky China connection become a problem?
Dusseldorf Nokia could get problems in the western markets – because of a cooperation from which the Finnish technology company had promised four years ago the breakthrough in the multi-billion…
The dark side of globalization
Global supply chains used to be the last thing policymakers worried about. For a long time, it was almost exclusively economists who were concerned with the potential efficiency gains and…
Companies shy away from taking steps
Indian textile factory The supply chain law aims to improve working conditions. (Photo: obs) Berlin It is an unusual dispute: members of the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles have publicly attacked…
Supply chain problems in world trade are coming to a head
Container port in the UK In the country, a total of 77 percent of companies would have to adapt their supply chains. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to a DIHK survey,…
Outsourcing of the main plant is off the table
Opel plant in Eisenach The plant, which currently employs around 1400 people, is to be spun off into its own company. The factory is to remain docked with Opel in…