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Editor’s Choice: Aluminum Can Shortage Defines a New Normal for Food Packaging

Logistics Viewpoints

This shortage is the culmination of various ongoing issues – geopolitical tensions related to the Russia-Ukraine war, the rapid shift in consumer buying behavior and container freight availability. Beer and food industries are particularly affected by the shortages of aluminum cans as most customers prefer take-home packaging.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Be demand driven.

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How to Procure Full Truckloads in Tight Capacity

GlobalTranz

These rates will have natural implications for smaller shippers seeking to lower overall transportation and freight spend, and paired with a “blurred lines between peak shipping and shopping seasons,” shippers will experience increasing trouble when trying to procure full truckload capacity. Conducting annual procurement exercises.

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The Green Corridor: The Circular Journey

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

For visualizing a products next life or “end of product life”, I will be focussing on packaging. #1 Look at packaging, office furniture, food waste from a conference, paper and promotional product waste from an advertising campaign. Packaging for consumer products is the most customer-facing marketing tool that we have.

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Funding Your Way to a Decarbonized Supply Chain

AIMMS

Re-evaluate supplier contracts and relationships Consolidated Procurement: Bulk purchasing often leads to better rates. Moreover, local suppliers may be more amenable to jointly investing in sustainability projects. See how Tata iQ built an idle freight optimization model with AIMMS and integrated it with a 3D simulation model for loading.

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How a 3PL Empowers Shippers With LTL Transportation Stability

GlobalTranz

the past 13 months of sustained rising freight demand and widespread shortage of labor up-and-down supply chains has brought the LTL trucking sector, and the shippers that depend on it to move palletized shipments, to a turning point.”. freight and delivery needs. State of the LTL Market. As reported by the? Journal of Commerce ,?

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Best Supply Chain Management Software for Mac 2024

SCMDOJO

As an all-in-one package, it cleans megatons of junk and makes everything run faster. It encompasses a wide range of features from freight forwarding to brokerage. 3 Precoro Precoro simplifies procurement processes for small to medium-sized businesses. Hence, it offers an accessible and streamlined procurement solution.