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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. Asena holds B.S.

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What is the Warehouse Role in Fulfilment?

Supply Chain Game Changer

A warehouse provides a secure and safe place to store goods in an organised way along with the warehouse role in fulfilment. In order to keep the goods both secure and accessible, bins and other storage equipment will be set up. It also includes keeping a check on the goods and maintaining both the safety and security of the site.

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Agriculture in the City

Enterra Insights

”[2] To be fair, the USDA does offer a downloadable “ Urban Farm Business Plan Handbook ” and an “ Urban Agriculture ToolKit “ Why urban agriculture? In fact, Robbin Laird believes vertical, urban agriculture could become a national security issue.[8] ” Concluding thoughts.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Illegal sourcing: Suppliers offer goods or services misrepresented or produced illegally or immorally, whether because of materials used (such as the substitution of horsemeat for beef) or the labour conditions in which production takes place (notably in the garment industry). This may or may not be accompanied by a menace.

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Creating Paper Trails Without Paper: Making the Switch to Digital QMS

Arena Solutions

Paper has traditionally been the universal proof of conformity, as well as the source of legally binding documents. How often do you have to sign something, provide a copy of a handbook or procedure, or provide the most recent version of something, or how long do you spend looking for information? When paper quality processes ruled.

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Not all food is created equal. Who should set the standards?

Provenance

Companies are losing faith in labels such as Fairtrade – losing faith in their ability to secure the future of farming and the future of commodities that drive corporate profit, but also losing faith that these independent stamps of sustainability carry any value at all any more,” said Trishna Shah, the Euromonitor analyst.

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