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Circularity and the future of the digital product passport

o9 Solutions

This blog explores how policy developments such as the digital product passport (DPP) alongside supply chain software can play a role as enablers. The DPP is a promising policy instrument, but there are still open questions regarding the DPP’s final design and implementation. What is the digital product passport (DPP)?

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

In that order, because we first have to be able to orchestrate and digitize the decision process, including all data, plans, parameters, and decision policies that feed into it, before we can augment or automate. It should be easy for the human to provide goals and automation and decision policies to the machine.

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Ford Motor Moves Deeper Into Supply Network Vertical Integration

Supply Chain Matters

based Albemarle providing upwards of 100,000 metric tons of battery grade lithium hydroxide to supply 3 million Ford EV batteries starting in 2026. These agreements include U.S. So turning those raw materials, especially lithium and nickel, into processed materials we can put into a slurry to make the (battery) cells themselves.

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eCommerce Business Explained: How To Sell Products Online

Unleashed

And it’s making strides: experts estimate that global eCommerce sales will reach $8 trillion (USD) by 2026. eCommerce businesses must address this with robust return policies, often coupled with free shipping. An eCommerce business should have all the necessary policy documents in place before launching.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

beverage industry paid $2.175 billion in Section 232 tariffs on 10.295 million metric tons of aluminum since their implementation. The world’s first cargo ship that produces nearly zero planet-heating pollution is on track to set sail in 2026, according to one of the firms behind the project. HARBOR Aluminum estimates U.S.

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Green Steel Deal: are carbon tariffs in our future?

Resilinc

For the EU’s proposed CBAM, that is already the case—or it will be when CBAM goes into effect – projected to be January 2026. Under the existing EU Emissions Trading Scheme, large European GHG emitters must purchase carbon allowances—the equivalent of a tax—for every metric ton of carbon-dioxide they emit.