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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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Is Vertical Farming Falling Flat?

Enterra Insights

Freelance writer Scott Pruden explains, “Vertical farming’s supporters tout its many benefits — among them, saving arable land and preventing deforestation, cutting agricultural water use, locating food sources in urban centers, and making up for a decline in the number of farmers.”[1] Can it succeed?

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How Shippers Use Carbon Emissions Shipment Data to Reduce Total Carbon Footprint

Intelligent Audit

It’s a common goal for people and industries worldwide to work together to reduce our collective carbon footprint and counteract climate change. The shipping industry plays a significant part in this equation, as carbon emissions from shipping make up a substantial portion of the problem. Shippers have a lot of power.

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Sustainable Forestry: Can We Get It Right?

EcoVadis

Deforestation for palm oil plantations in Indonesia averages to about 300,000 hectares (about half the size of Delaware) each year. Corporate Commitments to Zero Deforestation and Responsible Sourcing. million tons in 1995 to 62.6 million tons in 2015). From 1993 to 2013, over 300,000 km 2 of forest was cleared in the Brazilian Amazon.

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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

And if most of your production happens in FL, you may choose to divert sourcing to your secondary facility, say in New Jersey, during heavy produce shipping season months to avoid the heightened costs. Delaware has a disproportionate agricultural output compared to its relatively small size. Both are harvested late in the summer.

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History Repeats Itself Without Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

My ex-husband decided that we were going to move to Delaware. The analysis includes over 700 companies across 28 industry sectors. Shown in Table 1 are the averages in the process industry. The pharmaceutical industry has both the highest operating margin and the lowest level of supply chain excellence on the list.).

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. To this day, NFI Industries is privately held by the Brown family. Møller Mærsk Group.