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How to Navigate ESG Risk with Supplier Management Software

QAD

It’s easy to forget about where materials come from when you’re holding a product in your hand or looking for a supplier that can offer a great deal and reliable shipping, but many of those items come with ESG implications. Compliance appears to be a significantly larger driver for sustainable procurement than ethics or consumer demand.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 25 – March 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

In contrast, the larger Amazon warehouses typically rely on delivery stations closer to customers for the final stage of shipping. Amazon’s fast-shipping service can add fees for small orders. Amazon’s fast-shipping service can add fees for small orders. Technology partner Fulfil Solutions Inc.,

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany. ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. The ZF supply chain is complex. at the ZF Group.

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International Shipping: The Complete Guide for eCommerce Sellers

Ware2Go

Offering international shipping in your ecommerce shop can open your business up to a world of opportunity. This straightforward guide defines some commonly used terms and outlines your options to ship cross-border and expand your customer base. For DDP shipments, the seller pays the duties upfront before shipping the item.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. Enter Big Tech. One goal, two different motivations.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Also, tools have been developed to enable horizontal partnerships to reduce empty truck miles. The second Z – Zero emission shipping routes: the Clydebank Declaration. Signatories to the so-called Clydebank Declaration have agreed to collaborate to support the creation of green shipping corridors between two or more port pairs.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Container shipping prices skyrocket. The engineers will begin by developing 3D software to emulate the “complexities of real life.” Amazon said the development center in Helsinki will work alongside Amazon staff at the Amazon Scout R&D lab in Seattle, as well as teams in Tubingen, Germany, and Cambridge.