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

SupplyShift

From 2009 to 2020, packaging waste in the EU increased by 20% , reaching 79 million tons in 2020. Supports positive impact on internal markets, better supporting strong sustainable waste management infrastructure to provide reliable and consistent pathways to reduction. Here, a data-driven approach is crucial.

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Rail 101 with Ian Jefferies

The Logistics of Logistics

From 2009 to 2013, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Railinc serves as the rail industry’s leading resource for rail data, information technology and information services, and uses one of the world’s largest data networks to track customer shipments.

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Trends 2023: Retail

Enterra Insights

”[6] “Marketers have mined data from users’ smartphone and browser habits for years,” he writes, “but it will come to a head as the third decade of the millennium approaches. No worries — it will have a ton of regulations to limit the type and amount of data it can harvest. Sustainability. Too dystopian?

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

2.4 Government’s commitment to Environmental Sustainability include plans for a “Circular Economy” where waste materials are repurposed are reused or recycled as useful resources. He was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of SATS in 2004, where he held the position till his retirement in 2009. wildlife conservation.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

ivalua

In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. Procurement Teams Step-up. When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt.

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Not Just Another Automotive Industry Transformation

LevaData

automotive industry is a key economic indicator of health and market sustainability; its conjoined relationship with supplier industries creates a profound economic and political influence. By 2009, the automotive sector was drowning in an $80B crisis—all while continuing to suffer from overcapacity and market saturation. auto sales.

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Pretty Is as Pretty Does?

Supply Chain Shaman

It is pretty on the shelf, but it can be a problem for the sustainable supply chain. In fact, unsuspecting consumers would never guess at the issues that the package on the shelf represents for the sustainable supply chain. To compare, in 2009, shortly after the release of the Wal-Mart scorecards, in a similar study, it was 39%.