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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Boston Marathon is considered one of the worlds “ Big 5 ” marathons. mile journey, with a particularly large crowd in downtown Boston. The 127th running of the Boston Marathon took place on Monday. Spectators line the sides of the 26.2 The Red Sox home game begins early on that day, adding to the crowds downtown.

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Food Waste: The World Can’t Afford It

Enterra Insights

When it comes to food waste, the environment takes a double whammy — water, packaging, transportation, and agricultural resources get used up for naught, and that leftover sandwich or container of expired spinach you bought in hopes of healthy eating releases greenhouse gases as it decomposes in a landfill.”[2] ”[4]. ”[5].

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Food Waste: The World Can’t Afford It

Enterra Insights

When it comes to food waste, the environment takes a double whammy — water, packaging, transportation, and agricultural resources get used up for naught, and that leftover sandwich or container of expired spinach you bought in hopes of healthy eating releases greenhouse gases as it decomposes in a landfill.”[2] ”[4]. ”[5].

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Adopt performance metrics for carriers.

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Report from Food Marketing Institute Highlights CPG Logistics Challenges

Zipline Logistics

A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. It strained production functions and increased the need for trucking services, which led to falling performance metrics that rippled across organizations.

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How Data Drives Corporate Sustainability

EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

According to Boston Consulting Group , those asset managers likely to take advantage of data, machine learning, and AI are will more likely thrive in the future. Beyond keeping investors happy, there are plenty of good reasons why managing datasets, and monitoring and reporting against sustainability-based metrics makes good business sense.

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Supply Chain at Your Fingertips

Logility

Bryan Ball highlighted the top disruptive supply chain trends including the increasing speed of business, talent and training, and measurement and metric alignment. Bill Nienburg outlined Under Armour’s bold and aggressive supply chain strategy, built on 4D collaboration with a multi-dimensional data-driven processes.