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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development ā€“ A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 ā€“ ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. For transportation and logistics ā€“ the revolution to decarbonize is likewise well underway. As a sustainable logistics consultant Iā€™m often reading up on how technology is evolving in the energy sector. Charge Me Up!

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3 Initiatives Driving Sustainable Transportation and Logistics Management

BlueYonder

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. In 2007, the U.S. The realities of todayā€™s complex global marketplace make fulfilling sustainability objectives anything but simple as companies navigate fulfillment, transportation and logistics challenges.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Logistics providers have discovered that sustainability in the supply chain delivers a good ROI. And customers, many of whom are Millennials, want to know the sourcing of the products they buy and will make decisions based on a companyā€™s sustainability record. This solution has not been overlooked by logistics companies.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Accenture Acquires Global Logistics Consulting Firm Flo Group Global based consulting and other services firm Accenture has reportedly acquired European based global logistics consulting services firm Flo Group. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracleā€™s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Can a Start-up save the Worldā€™s Largest Retailer

Techgistics

In 2007, the year the iPhone was released, the iPod was Appleā€™s pre-existing cash cow with 48% of Appleā€™s revenue from iPod sales. Apple was willing to kill their biggest source of revenue as they recognized the potential of the iPhone. None of these new developments fit very well into the old modelā€™s logistics infrastructure.

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5 Ways Companies are Thinking Green in Logistics

Freight Plus

Prior to the last decade the discussion about green logistics has often been segmented from traditional supply chain management. Raw Materials / Sourcing ā€“. By 2012 they already reached their 2020 target of reducing CO2 emissions by 25 percent per container from 2007 levels. (. Listen to this article. ).