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Supplier Sustainability Assessment ? Where Do I Start?

SupplyShift

Supplier data will influence sustainability reports and announcements, supplier reviews, and supplier seminars. When companies leverage existing expertise, they eliminate the need to create their own methodology, which drives efficiency and increases industry alignment.

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Supplier Sustainability Assessment ? Where Do I Start?

SupplyShift

Some examples are: The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) for consumer goods and retail. Supplier data will influence sustainability reports and announcements, supplier reviews, and supplier seminars. To adopt these standards, find a group operating in your industry or for your function and get involved.

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The Acme Experience: Ignore Trade Compliance at Your Own Risk

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Acme’s story began when its vice president of logistics, Donna Smith, attended one of our seminars on trade compliance and policy. Smith returned to Acme and reviewed some of the things she had learned at the seminar. Acme is a large importer/exporter of common consumer goods that are not controlled for export.

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Managing the Long Tail of the Supply Chain Part 4: Five Takeaways

ToolsGroup

In industries such as e-commerce, consumer goods, food and beverage, electronics, aftermarket, and industrial distribution, companies are seeing 50% and more of their revenue coming from long tail demand items. service levels with 20% inventory reductions. Now Almost Everyone has a “Long Tail. Dart is not alone.

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The Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Part 2 - Pareto is Dead

ToolsGroup

In the recent Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) web seminar entitled “ Driving Results Despite Item Complexity ”, one slide quoted her as saying previously,“If the products have a skewed distribution and it is your desire to meet a higher service level, then the deterministic technologies of APS and ERP are not designed to meet your needs.”. “The

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

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