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Unwrapping the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive: Embracing Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy

SupplyShift

With a particular focus on plastic pollution and packaging waste , this call to action is not just ethically driven, but also mandated by legislative acts like the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD), which will become an EU-wide binding rule known as the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

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COVID-19’s Immediate Impact on the Automotive Supplier Industry

QAD

million units in 2020, down 13.8% These mega-mergers started in 2020 planning to address these structural issues, and then COVID-19 hit. During the great recession of 2007-2009, a government bailout was only offered to the major automakers, and in the end, GM and Chrysler took the assistance. from a pre-pandemic forecast of 89.2

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What is the Hyperconnected Era & “The Internet Of Things” and What does it Have to Do with Manufacturing & Logistics?

GlobalTranz

By 2020 there will be 50 billion networked devices. Ashton talked in depth about IoT to the RFIDJournal.com in 2009″ “Today computers – and, therefore, the internet – are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information. there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020.

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The Internet of Things and the Retail Industry

C3 Solutions

From a term that came into use in 2009, the Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long way in 10 years. Top analyst firm Gartner estimated that there would be 26 billion connected items by 2020, while Frost & Sullivan suggested the number would be more like 50 billion. Learn more about it now! 15 Min Read. Download for later.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Is WEEE forgetting something?

Supply Chains Rock

Monday, May 18, 2009. On opening the package just past the instruction manual (why headphones need instructions is beyond me), I found a 10 page guide stating that the headphones are WEEE compliant in about 10 languages. MIT Supply Chain 2020. Is WEEE forgetting something? The gift was a pair of Bang & Olufsen earphones.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Transporter 3: Logistics future.

Supply Chains Rock

Monday, January 19, 2009. This weekend I watched " Transporter 3 " the action movie about an ex-military expert that uses his superior driving skills and an Audi A8 to deliver "packages" for clients in remote areas in record time. MIT Supply Chain 2020. Subscribe To. Transporter 3: Logistics future or Hollywood tricks?

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Swisscom Doesn't Get Customer Fulfillment or Green Supply Chains

Supply Chains Rock

Monday, December 14, 2009. MIT Supply Chain 2020. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To. Swisscom Doesnt Get Customer Fulfillment or Green Supply Chains. Easier said then done.