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Sustainable procurement: Everything You Need to Know

Precoro

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

A recent Quality Digest article suggested that “ethical supply chain management is being fueled by consumer demand, profitability, and visibility. In April 2021, food giant Hershey Food announced its “ No Deforestation Policy ” to end deforestation across its supply chain by 2030. A similar study in the U.S.

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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

With reports of retail layoffs and overstaffing at companies (such as Walmart and Amazon) to cover Omicron-related staffing shortages, it would appear the shortage of workers may be abating. As per a recent report by CNBC , the labor department in the United States has 5.5 The risks surrounding the retail labor shortage aren’t new.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus was on margin and quality. The team understood the importance of margin management, focusing only on cost as an input to margin. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat.

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A Purpose-Driven Series: The Line Between What’s “Right” and What’s Profitable

BlueYonder

2020 is the year that lit resilience and agility on fire in supply chain, and for good reason. As social and environmental movements continue to spread across the globe, consumers are taking notice and are making purchasing decisions accordingly. To learn more about D&I at Blue Yonder, visit our new DIVE IN series.

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How Not To Commit To ‘Net Zero’: 5 Common Carbon Strategy Mistakes

Provenance

The NewClimate Institute recently reported a threefold increase in the number of businesses setting net zero goals, from 500 at the end of 2019 to 1,565 in October 2020. million in 2020. It’s mandatory for businesses to report on both Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions from the energy they buy).

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Third wave supply-chain planning software will play the machine role in the human-machine collaboration, enabling the knowledge worker to manage large amounts of data, use advanced analytics, and automate processes and decisions across the enterprise and the wider value chain. The relative benefits of automation versus augmentation.