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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. This is a full five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2 A truly inspiring Marathon Monday as always.

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Understanding Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. As a result, Mars has been able to procure renewable electricity to cover the entire business in those specific countries.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters further highlighted an announcement by electric automaker Tesla’s management in Germany who unveiled a package of hourly wage hikes for 11,000 factory workers at the automaker’s gigafactory operations in that country. The global automaker who operates non-unionized facilities across the U.S. All rights reserved.

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

For illustrative purposes, I will discuss some efforts by consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies currently underway. billion over the next five years as part of its long-term goal to cut in half its emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.”[5] Danone, in February 2020, announced plans “to invest $2.18

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional procurement functionality in SRM focused on improving transactional efficiency. Future of Analytics in the Building of Supply Chain 2030. In addition, the use of telematics, i.e. GPS and RFID, in logistics enables the building of accurate Estimated Time for Arrival (ETA) and the continued automation of logistics.

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Report Indicates Apple India iPhone Output is Now $7 Billion

Supply Chain Matters

Further was the building of a new production site in the southern city of Hyderabad , along with a silicon carbide fabrication plant and packaging facility for Foxconn ’s semiconductor business unit. These plans included expansion of the existing iPhone assembly facility near Chennai while tripling the workforce to as many as 100,000 workers.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Store employees will fill customer orders, then use a tablet to summon the drone, and step outside to clip the package to the drone’s tether. At the same time, the number of suppliers in China that received procurement bids declined by 9 percent in 2021. That’s all for this week.