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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In Malaysia, CEVA Logistics worked closely with L’Oréal , a major producer of luxury and consumer products, to develop a social initiative of providing jobs for the hearing impaired at our warehouse since June 2020. CEVA Logistics actively reaches out to support social innovations and engage local communities. Photo Credit: L’Oréal.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2 The words “avian flu” often trigger alarm bells for the majority of the population, as was evident with the avian flu outbreaks in the US that led to the culling of hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys in 2015 and 2017.

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Sector collaboration on sustainability accelerates, as a sixth industry creates an initiative with EcoVadis

EcoVadis

EcoVadis was recently chosen as an independent third-party solution provider for the new “ Responsible Beauty Initiative ,” which is a procurement initiative created by four European leaders in the cosmetics industry (Clarins, Coty, Groupe Rocher and L’Oréal) as well as all of their suppliers. Powered by EcoVadis.

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“Too Big to Fail”: 10 Things you Need to Know About El Niño

Elementum

1997 satellite image versus 2015 satellite image. A shorter monsoon season in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia will help miners procure more materials, used heavily in the electronics industry. Image courtesy NASA. It will probably alleviate California’s drought.

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October Global PMI Reporting-Continued Production Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Weaker-than-expected sales and the delayed shipment of goods led to: “ the strongest rise in inventories of postproduction items since September 2015. This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand , and Vietnam. The reported value of 49.5 declined 0.7

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

6 River Systems

Boot Barn’s Fontana Distribution Center is a state-of-the-art, 200,000 square foot facility (opened in 2015) that ships multiple weekly outbound orders to the company’s 200+ stores in 30 states. Located in Chicago, the facility opened in 2015 , making it the first LEED Platinum certified manufacturing plant in the industry.