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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This article will look at five things a firm might want to consider when choosing a supply chain technology provider: Your current resources and capabilities. This streamlining ensures global supply chains function at a high level but also helps to eliminate waste. In year 2008, Mark joined BMT, based in the Hong Kong office.

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Supply Chain Management in Apparel Industry

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The management of resources in the hands of a business is no small deal. Countries, especially in South Asia, like China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, etc., This reduces the cost of keeping the inventory that would not sell. Waste Management.

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Food Resilience and Climate Change

Enterra Insights

Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate hunger worldwide by 2030. After many years of great progress in reducing global hunger, progress has slowed recently and, in some places, even reversed. ”[1]. ”[1]. Since then, things have only gotten worse. ” Climate Change and Food Resilience. ”[5].

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This Week in Logistics New (May 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

But it turns out, unfortunately, that there is so much more material waste in this world that we never think about. A mountain of discarded clothing, including Christmas sweaters and ski boots, cuts a strange sight in Chile’s Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

As population density rises and resources dwindle, the lasting effects of world hunger only seem to be getting worse. billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. By using blockchain, vendors and suppliers can eliminate user error by exposing vulnerabilities in the system and then implementing targeted protocols to address them.

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AI and Climate Change, Can Technology Save The Planet, and What’s Next for Green City Vancouver

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What I saw is that resources can be distributed in such different ways. I saw what people need in different places and realized that we would have enough for everyone if we were more efficient with our resources and by being more effective with how we distribute them. JV: I’m from the UK. Also, let’s get rid of the bias.