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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

Scope 1 emissions include direct emissions from the company’s owned and controlled sources. Supplier relationships need to move from transactional deals to true sourcing partnerships with their most important suppliers. PepsiCo has farmers they directly source from. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased energy.

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Casey’s General Stores Supply Chain Team Contributes to Strong Financial Results

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, the retailer has over 37,000 employees. Whereas many of their competitors’ source from wholesalers like McLane or Core-Mark, Casey’s supplies their stores with groceries, food, health and beauty aids, and general merchandise from the distribution centers (DCs). Williams explained.

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Technology Alone Won’t Integrate Your Supply Chain with Paul Jensen

The Logistics of Logistics

Paul Jensen is a graduate of Iowa State University earning a Bachelor of Science in Physics. To ensure that the plan-source-make-deliver process works, companies need a partner who can execute the logistics from beginning to end (order to cash). required to be effective and efficient. About Paul Jensen. that manage their logistics.

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Winter Alert: Winter Weather Conditions Developing Across Much of the US

GlobalTranz

Numerous carriers across Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and parts of northern Mexico, including the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas are reporting delays, limited operations and/or closures due to blackouts, snow, and ice.

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Plant-location decisions and potential supply chain risk

Kinaxis

Besides Texas—Toyota’s new North American headquarters—other states on the companies’ shortlist are Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, WSJ reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the potential investment.

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[AI]griculture

Enterra Insights

” That problem, according to Soumik Sarkar, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, is that “precision agriculture is not that precise.” ” Ownership of data generated by advanced technologies has been a long-running source of angst in the agricultural sector.

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Drivers in the Spotlight: 4 Reasons for Their Growing Influence on Supply Chain Management

TMC

Researchers at Iowa State University studied this phenomenon using data provided by C.H. For more on the Iowa State study, download the white paper Do “Favored Shippers” Really Receive Better Pricing and Service? Carriers can bestow this status on shippers they prefer to do business with. Robinson and TMC. Electronic Logging Devices.