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This Week in Logistics News (October 10-14, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Rwanda Launches World’s First National Drone Delivery Service Powered By Zipline. Led by a team of domain experts that understand supply chain business document processes and data compliance standards across a number of industry verticals, Appterra provides B2B integration as a cloud service for its customers.

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Earth Day spotlight: What it means to be a Benefit Corporation in CPG

crisp

Purely Elizabeth’s VP of Sourcing & Sustainability Christin Powers spoke with Crisp about how in 2015, the then start-up used the B Lab assessment as a tool to develop processes and best practices to help build the business – knowing that they wanted to uphold the most sustainable, and ethical policies possible. “We

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How to Manage Risk and Boost Transparency in the Raw Material Supply Chain

EcoVadis

The London Metal Exchange just released a positon paper on responsible sourcing with special transitional provision for cobalt. A newcomer to the responsible mining space, Minespider , described its blockchain protocol for responsible mineral sourcing. 3TGs: Updates on Gold Sustainable Procurement.