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Energy Transition in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime.

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Sustainable eCommerce: Examples of Environmentally Friendly Online Retail

Ware2Go

Learn how businesses of all sizes can help build a more sustainable eCommerce industry, with examples of environmentally friendly brands that are leading the way. Packaging- especially plastics- are creating an environmental emergency of their own. In 2022 alone, eCommerce returns generated 9.5 million cars to the road. The problem?

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What is Smart Packaging.

ModusLink Corporation

The importance of correct packaging. Packaging is an important element that manifests its presence within all stages of the product flow. The role of traditional packaging is to protect a product against deteriorative effects caused by exposure to and usage in the external environment. The three main Packaging levels.

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Navigating the Challenge of Dwell Time in E-commerce Logistics

Stord

For those unfamiliar, dwell time refers to the gap between a 3PL or fulfillment provider’s marking an order as “shipped, ” and the moment a shipping carrier actually scans the package into its system and truly begins to move the package. It’s important to note that there’s always some dwell time; it’s to be expected and not a problem.

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What is Supply Chain Management? A Guide to Success

SCMDOJO

From sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, and storage, to transportation and distribution, SCM ensures efficiency and cost-effectiveness throughout the entire journey. Sourcing: Sourcing is all about finding reliable suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing relationships.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

Warehouse vacancy rates sink to 27-year low. UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. The initiative will eliminate 20 million manual scans daily for UPS employees loading its package cars.

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, current congestion at China ports is based on COVID restrictions on cross-province trucking stoppages and port labor COVID lock downs in China that have prevented workers from off-loading and on-boarding shipping containers. We have many different data sources,” Mr. Dowse went on to say. “We It is a rough prediction.”.