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Why Sustainable Home Delivery Results in Greater Sales and Profitability

Logistics Viewpoints

Second, the pandemic kicked online buying and home delivery into “high gear” as many consumers embraced its convenience and dramatically expanded the scope of their online purchasing. Isn’t home delivery supposed to be the antithesis of sustainability? Consumers are making purchasing decisions based upon environmental impact.

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. Food waste accounts for eight percent of global greenhouse gases and has significant environmental and economic impacts. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization 1.3 billion tonnes of food – over $9 billion worth – goes to waste each year.

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Power Your Business Sustainably Through Solar Energy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Power Your Business Sustainably Through Solar Energy. All of this has led companies in the commercial space to prioritise sustainability, which includes a trend towards adopting solar energy. Supply chain businesses jumping on the sustainability bandwagon. Partnering with Sembcorp to achieve your sustainability targets.

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Ways Food and Beverage can Build Resilience with Supply Chain Optimization Software

Logility

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. Excellence in all these areas requires predicting demand, buying supplies, producing products promptly, and swiftly responding to market demand.

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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis? The result of this cocktail is an unfortunate reduction in global agri-food production, export, and rapidly increasing agri-food commodity prices. Are our agri-food supply chains in crisis? Do we need to relook at how we organise our agri-food supply chains?

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The Intersection of Sustainability and Consumer Behavior

QAD

It has most definitely impacted how people buy products of all types and in all industries. Thus, the rise of the concept of sustainability to a level of importance we have never seen before. 84% of consumers have purchased a sustainable product in the past six months, which is up from 67% in 2021.

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St. Patrick’s Day is an Excellent Time for Supply Chains to Think Green

Enterra Insights

Green is also the unofficial color of sustainability efforts. The Logility team writes, “Environmental sustainability in the supply chain is top of mind for consumers, and a brand that fails to hold itself responsible risks reputational damage that will affect the bottom line.”[2] The Sustainability Business Case.