GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2016

Near and far, logistics providers and shippers are renewing their focus on sustainability to build the manufacturing giants of tomorrow. As explained by Bob Trebilcock , sustainability in logistics initiatives are ranked as “very important” for up to 40.6 How Important Is Sustainability in Logistics?

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

They may lack resources required to meet programmatic and financial reporting requirements or mitigate the many risks of non-compliance. Automation can deliver improved forecasting, monitoring and collaboration in addition to a more predictable and sustainable means of managing federal resources. The Procurement Link.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Christopher Marquis ( @CMarquisCornell ), a Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, explains, “People are increasingly expecting and calling on businesses to uphold higher social and environmental standards.”[1] 2] He adds, “Ensuring internal operations are sustainable is no longer enough.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

And yet, prior to replacing a legacy inventory management system and implementing a supply chain analytics solution from FusionOps , the share of merchandise the company delivered on-time and in-full was a dismal 28 percent! How did this vast improvement in a key supply chain metric translate into financial performance?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

This January the company reported that its annual recurring revenue grew at over 84% year-over-year. The company launched their platform in 2014. Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Procurement Report Card: Most Executives Think Procurement Isn’t Strategic Enough! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 12, 2018

However, as of 2014 , 87% of U.S. companies reportedly did not use Smart Manufacturing despite reports in increased efficiency, lower product defects, and customer satisfaction gains by those using Smart Manufacturing. Enterprise Sustainability. The Trends that Will Forever Shape Manufacturing in 2018 & Beyond.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last year around this time I made a lot of predictions about what 2014 would hold in store…Let’s revisit some of these, and see what has happened (or what hasn’t!) Here are my predictions from 2014, and an update on what I think will happen in these areas. Cost Pressures Will Continue to Escalate.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Not only has Walmart excelled over the decades in traditional supply chain management but with recent news as of late, Walmart is also focused on continuous improvement by investing more into emerging technologies to capture more of the e-commerce market as well as a focus on sustainability. ” Walmart states early on.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Consumers, activists, and investors increasingly want to know the products they buy are sourced sustainably and ethically. Jennifer Furey and Rebecca Harris, attorneys at Goulston & Storrs, report, “Millennials are expected to inherit approximately $30 trillion in assets over the next 30 to 40 years. ”[2].

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Elementum

JUNE 3, 2015

Before you give up on sustainability and start throwing your recycling in the garbage, know that this is not an article about the futility of greening your supply chain. The United Nations released “A Guide to Traceability” in 2014, a report focused on traceability as an economically viable and sustainable approach to supply chain management.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The 2014 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper™ Study cites speed of delivery as the fourth most important factor when comparing retailers (after selection, product information and reputation). It is critical that the online purchase journey is transparent to shoppers. 2 2014 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper™ Study.

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EcoVadis

MAY 21, 2014

Jury is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bergamo University (Bergamo, Italy), focusing his research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management. When embarking for the journey of supply chain sustainability, managers ideally need to balance breadth (i.e., number of supplier organizations covered by sustainable monitoring).

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Brands can connect products, sales channels, warehouses, workflows, reports, and more. Series A Funding: $11.8

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QAD

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Santa Clara Medical Center reported that 383 medical items went missing between 2010 and 2014, including incubators, heart monitors and mammography machines. The formula for fast and sustainable growth in the medical device industry includes the adoption of digital manufacturing technologies.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

On September 30, 2014, supply chain education will take a major step into the digital age with the start of SCx, an on-line educational program developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) for thousands of professionals across the globe. SC1x – Supply Chain and Logistics Fundamentals (fall 2014).

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 5, 2018

After launching in 2014 and raising a total of $63 million, this “Uber for Shipping” venture (as investors and the press liked to call Shyp) never found a sustainable business model. In August 2014, in a post titled Uber, the Next Amazon? , Shyp and Uber: Pulling the Plug on Disruption. and Amazon.com Inc.”.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 17, 2015

I am delighted to share with readers of my blog, the announcement of a new report completed by Jay Golden from Duke University and myself, that was released today at 11 AM and announced by Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the release of the report that shows the U.S.

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RFgen

JULY 24, 2019

Here’s how companies cope and what inventory management can do to keep milk and cheese available for consumers: The Search for Sustainable Cows. Along with all products made by cows – meat and leather for example – dairy consumers want to buy products created through sustainable practices. In 2014, U.S.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 27, 2019

This year’s Sustain, EcoVadis’ annual event and one of the world’s top conferences on sustainable global supply chains, saw more grandeur than ever before. This is what the event sought to address in all the sessions and presentations: How do we ignite change and move toward a sustainable future? Did you miss it? Perseverance.

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RFgen

JULY 24, 2019

Here’s how companies cope and what inventory management can do to keep milk and cheese available for consumers: The Search for Sustainable Cows. Along with all products made by cows – meat and leather for example – dairy consumers want to buy products created through sustainable practices. In 2014, U.S.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JUNE 3, 2014

First Reports Filed to SEC on Potential Use of Minerals From a Region of War-Torn Africa. By John Kester and Maxwell Murphy June 2, 2014 7:28 p.m. The admissions were among reports by nearly 1,300 U.S.-listed “We will be looking for more companies reporting in greater detail soon.” Crew Group Inc.,

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

On February 27, 2014, the US House of Representatives Subcommittee had a public hearing to discuss the issue of counterfeit drugs and the underlying illegal supply chains.    To reduce production cost, many US pharmaceutical companies purchase active ingredients from overseas and/or produce the drugs overseas. 

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers. In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low! What will be required to attract investors to this market?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 14, 2015

As part of the reauthorization of the 2014 Farm Bill, we were tasked to undertake an analysis to address these gaps and report our findings to Congress.2 As part of the reauthorization of the 2014 Farm Bill, we were tasked to undertake an analysis to address these gaps and report our findings to Congress.2

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 24, 2014

Another profile booster is the growing interest in sustainability, especially in Europe. Companies turn to supply chain professionals to help them cut costs and streamline processes in key areas such as inventory management. ” * “Spain’s rate of growth fastest for six years” Financial Times , April 24, 2014.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

” He was then asked to make a bi-annual visit to Sealaska by none other than Rick Hughes, the Chief Procurement Officer at the time – and in no uncertain terms was told how important this visit was going to be. Another myth that P&G shattered around supplier diversity had to do with performance.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Sustainability Services. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Abstract Technologies such as Social networking, mobile, analytics and cloud computing have been shaking the IT industry for past several years. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In short, the increased threat of terrorism underscores the importance of taking a smarter approach to supply chain risk management , which was one of my predictions for 2014. Sustainability : Will the climate change agreement reached at the COP21 meeting in Paris this past weekend change supply chains in 2016?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The sustained tightness has enabled the carriers to increasingly focus on their good freight. IHS Automotive reported that registrations of new class 8 trucks climbed 16.7%—for The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) 2014 Annual Global Conference took place September 21–24. Large Scale Market Indicators.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Consortium Report. ©2014 Tompkins International. |. Our Focus Industries. Consumer Products. Pharmaceutical & Healthcare. Third-Party Logistics. Our Thinking. Client Success Stories. White Paper. Contact Us. Webinar On Demand. How to Maximize Warehouse Efficiency Hosted by The Journal of Commerce. 800-789-1257. |.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a presentation by Kent Sharp at the ISM conference last spring, he said that in 2014, of the about 1,300 who filed a report to the SEC, two thirds did not include even a basic description of the extent to which their products contain 3TG minerals because thousands of products were potentially affected. Trust but verify.”.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Worldwide, customers’ increasing demand for greener, more sustainable and less polluting products and services has triggered a reaction among companies. Among these companies, revenues from sustainable products & services grew at 6X the rate of overall company revenues (from 2010 to 2014)” (from Sustainability Update ).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sustainability Services. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. cities with these lockers in-place are located in states that already collect sales taxes for online purchases. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Publishing Resources Industries.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. Implementing and sustaining LEAN initiatives : 5S, Kaizen, Kanban and LEAN Six Sigma to bring value to the customer and go beyond their expectations.

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