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6 Things We've Learned from McDonald's Procurement Management

AFFLINK

In 2014, McDonald’s developed its Global Sustainability Framework , meaning that it aimed to find suppliers who produced more sustainable products. McDonald’s has new goals that it wants to achieve by 2020, including purchasing sustainable beef and sourcing 100% recycled fiber packaging. Changing with the Times is Important.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 15-19, 2014)

Talking Logistics

When I visited Cuba with my father in 2004, we drove several hours from Cienfuegos to Camaguey to visit my aunt Z and her family. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week, with 3PLs dominating the headlines: FedEx to Expand Global Portfolio of Solutions with Acquisition of GENCO.

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The Internet of Things and the Retail Industry

C3 Solutions

in 2004 to $0.38 in 2014 to just 4 cents in 2019. Not only does it help keep their users' distribution centres running smoothly, with lower maintenance costs and less unplanned downtime, it also affords the manufacturer a potential new source of income from the diagnostic and maintenance service. in 2019, for example.

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The Real Cost of Olympic Logistics

Elementum

But when you consider the logistics involved in hosting, the numbers don't always come out positive. Recently, though, some have begun to question whether or not those economic benefits are worth the near-impossible, and increasingly expensive, logistics of hosting these events. billion spent on the 2014 World Cup.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

I got started just as the dotcom craze was taking off, with new logistics startups coming to market every day (all of them announcing they were “The world’s leading provider of X” even though they were just a few months old). Source: Google. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends).

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Coyote Logistics @CoyoteLogistics Coyote Logistics prides itself on its innovative logistics and supply chain philosophy.

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

Resilinc

Historical events like Pompeii (2014) are omitted, assuming supply chains were relatively less connected way back then. Logistics-themed disasters ( Poseidon Adventure, Airport, Airplane!, The Day After Tomorrow (2004) We typically think of rising temperatures and global warming when we think of climate change.