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How & Why You Should Choose Eco-Friendly Packaging for Ecommerce Orders

ShipBob

When it comes to understanding how customers interact with ecommerce brands, packaging is by far one of the most ubiquitous elements. This is great for business, but with all of this spending online comes another cost: more packaging waste, and therefore a growing environmental impact. What is eco-friendly packaging?

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Putting the Planet First: Bringing Sustainability To The Last-Mile With Logistics Technology

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Parallelly, expectations around the overall purchasing experience have also grown steeper. In essence, a lot of logistics planning boils down to finding the quickest possible route between various points of delivery before returning back to the source. Sales in the e-commerce sector globally, grew to $4.9 trillion in 2021, up from $4.2

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The Intersection of Sustainability and Consumer Behavior

QAD

It has most definitely impacted how people buy products of all types and in all industries. Consumers helped push the added sugar label creation several years ago as well as the push for the QR and barcodes that can instantly give a consumer information about the products they buy.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Digital Procurement article, and permission to publish here, provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. I don’t know about you, but I typically frequent the same store; the ICA in Täby, Sweden, and I’m there once every other week to buy groceries for the coming two weeks. Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2019. Subscribe Here!

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This has implications for raw materials, ingredients, primary packaging, intermediate goods as well as end-product goods flows. In other words, halal requires an organisation of the supply chain instead of just the factory: from source all the way up to point of consumer purchase. distributor, retailer) and suppliers (e.g.:

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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

QAD

As I discussed in a recent article in RFID Journal , RFID technology has changed a lot since 2005 and could be the secret to ensuring greater visibility and inventory accuracy this year. They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan. What is RFID Technology?

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Supply Chain Leadership Series VI: Pam Heminger, Senior Vice President of Procurement & Planning, Caterpillar

NC State SCRC

During that time, she worked in a number of different areas including direct procurement, indirect procurement, operations, supply chain, packaging, and operations support including: HR, finance, IT and facilities management. We are relying on these technologies to move faster on sourcing decisions.