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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. It can take miles out of the transportation journey, air from a carton or box, or reduce trips to a specific neighborhood or house.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

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 Apple, others face shipment delays as China Covid curbs squeeze suppliers. GW to 10.4

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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.

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Improving Sustainability Within Your Supply Chain

Synovos

Improving Sustainability Within Your Supply Chain You don’t have to do it all alone, says a senior director of procurement. We’re working towards this goal by moving to lower carbon forms of transport and renewable sources of electricity as well as increasing use of recycled packaging while reducing the amount of packaging overall.”

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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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Supply Chain 2030: Forge a New Path

Supply Chain Shaman

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. As companies prepare for Supply Chain 2030, we think that it is time to rethink the basics. As companies prepare for Supply Chain 2030, we think that it is time to rethink the basics. What does it take?