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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries will increase from around 340 GWh today to over 3500 GWh by 2030. In a recent report, IEA indicated that global battery and mineral supply chains need to expand ten-fold to meet projected critical minerals needs by 2030.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

On our budget then, this felt like a fortune and fueled my interest in energy policy. We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. Schneider Electric has committed to convert its 14,000 fleet vehicles to electric by 2030. Leading supply chains tackle sustainability in a variety of ways.

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RS Group Achieves Back-to-Back Ecovadis Platinum Medal for Sustainability Excellence

Synovos

The objective of the EcoVadis methodology is to measure the quality of a company’s sustainability management system through its policies, actions, and results. Of particular note is the progress made by our People and Ethics teams to further improve our policies, performance, and disclosure in the area of labor and human rights. “We

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Companies can win with an IT standardization policy. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Order Policy. Channel Sensing. Cost-to-Serve.

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

ToolsGroup

Yet according to retail advisory firm IHL , “The most significant challenges to inventory distortion are the availability of workers and the disruptions outside of the immediate control of the retailer.” Source: Bloomberg.com. And now, almost a year later, retailers are still concerned about filling positions.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Customer Centric Policies. By 2030, companies will be short 20% of employees at the senior manager and director level. Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. Training.