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Stop Food Waste Day 2024

Enterra Insights

.” Those measures are: • EPA estimates : 2010 was selected as a baseline at 218.9 USDA estimates : amount of food loss and waste from the food supply at the retail and consumer levels: in 2010 food loss and waste at the retail and consumer levels was 31 percent of the food supply, equaling 133 billion pounds and almost $162 billion.

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Supply Chain Matters Editorial Commentary- Notions of Rethinking Global Supply Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Basis of Materials Strategic Sourcing. Background. The rest, as they often say, is history.

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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

As a result, piracy activity dramatically decreased by 75 percent between 2010 and 2022. ”[10] Piracy Although piracy has decreased dramatically compared to the first decade of this century, last year witnessed a slight uptick in piracy from 2022. ” Forbes, 28 June 2022. [6] Which shipments are affected?

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech June 28 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Included in this June 29, 2022 edition are updates featuring the following providers: Logility and Starboard Solutions. The majority owner of this start-up is Marc Lore, the prior founder of baby diaper online site Quidsi that was acquired by Amazon in 2010. Our prior regular published update of this column occurred on June 14 th.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As part of LogiSYM Asia Pacific 2022, we had the opportunity to chat with Vittorio Favati, Chief Executive Officer – TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS. Sourcing, manufacturing and consumption models will continue to evolve and the supply chain industry is positioned as a strategic partner to support companies in rationalising future decisions.

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Globalization’s Ongoing Realignment

Enterra Insights

Opinion polls, including a careful study by Stanley Greenberg and his associates for the Roosevelt Institute, show that trade is among the major sources of discontent for a large share of Americans. Flows of services, international students, and intellectual property grew about twice as fast as goods flows in 2010–19.

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The Cost of Supply Chain Sustainability Legislation?

QAD

California Transparency in Supply Chains Act – Signed into law in 2010, it requires large retailers and manufacturers to disclose activities focused on eradicating human trafficking from the supply chain and educating consumers on how to purchase goods from responsibly managed supply chains. . Are You Prepared?