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Ethical sourcing risks pose challenge to electric vehicle market

Resilinc

The controversy has led Tesla and others to use blockchain technology to ensure (and prove to human rights groups) that they use only ethically sourced cobalt. The controversy has led Tesla and others to use blockchain technology to ensure (and prove to human rights groups) that they use only ethically sourced cobalt.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Covid-19’s Impact on the Supply Chain Crisis. AdAge ).

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Behind Toyota’s 2021 U.S. win? A better sourcing strategy

Resilinc

For the first time in 90 years, Toyota has become America’s top-selling automaker. It also marks the first time a non-domestic automaker has taken the top spot in the U.S. Thus emerged the system later known as just in time,” McLain wrote in May 2021. Was it Toyota’s marketing? Its reputation for quality?

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From the Barley in the Fields, to the Beer in Our Hands: Carlsberg’s Sustainability Journey

BlueYonder

And, in recent times, this has made the critical notion of sustainability an equally vast challenge. And they come from shareholders who realize that sustainability doesn’t just implicate the environment — it means complete futureproofing across the business, people and planet. The former deadline isn’t far away.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

Organizations must use every means at their disposal to keep goods moving while at the same time preventing their most important resource – their talent – from jumping ship at an alarming pace. The trucking industry was down 80,000 drivers in 2021, and that shortage is anticipated to balloon to 160,000 by 2030. million by 2030.

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The Future Of The Supply Chain Starts With Sustainability.

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

From driver shortages to the e-commerce boom and pandemic-related lockdowns fueling unprecedented congestion, getting goods to retailers and consumers in a timely manner has never been more challenging. While there has been some easing of capacity constraints, many of these issues are likely to continue well into the second half of the year.

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Food Resilience and Climate Change

Enterra Insights

Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate hunger worldwide by 2030. Unaware that a pandemic was just around the corner, Fan remained optimistic hunger could be eliminated with an aggressive, innovative, and sustained effort. ”[1]. ”[1]. Since then, things have only gotten worse. ” Climate Change and Food Resilience.

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