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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Consumers, activists, and investors increasingly want to know the products they buy are sourced sustainably and ethically. The article cites Dr. Darren Prokop, of the University of Anchorage Alaska, who explains supply chain visibility involves seeing “a particular activity with access to information at selected nodes.”

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Matrix Commerce is Coming Will You Be Ready?

Supply Chain Network

Matrix Commerce describes the complex construct integrating marketing, sales, sourcing, pricing, profitability, service levels, delivery and consumer perceptions. Also, in the past it was brands and retailers who determined how and where you would buy their products and what price they would be sold for.

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Sustainable Frozen Ecommerce Fulfillment with Cathy Hayward-Hughes and Mike Bradburn

The Logistics of Logistics

All the while, Mike would purchase old fixer-upper homes and remarket them – long before it was the chic thing to do! Cathy was born into a fishing family in Alaska. They specialize in transporting frozen food. Because the product (usually food) must maintain a low temperature, dry ice, and or frozen gel packs must be utilized.

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Who’s Catching the Holiday Shopping Fever?

Enterra Insights

The Chamber used its own algorithm, which “takes into account household income, expenses, debt, cost of living, and savings,” to reveal “which states have the ability to splurge on the holidays and which states can’t.”[3] behind Hawaii, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alaska. of West Virginians live in poverty.

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What is excise duty? A guide for alcohol producers

Unleashed

We also look at: Using brewery inventory software to track and manage alcohol excise duty costs, and. The taxes are applied to goods that are regarded as having a form of social harm, and as such are designed to decrease the consumption of that good, and / or fund the cost of that social harm. What is excise duty? Who pays excise duty?