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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The responsibility of sustainability is no longer limited to the individual, but it extends to corporations, industries and even governments. The global supply chain industry has by default, a large environmental impact, through its carbon footprint. Photo Credit: L’Oréal. Acting for Planet. Photo Credit: United Airlines.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel. Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Alexis Bateman ( @hickmana ), Director of MIT Sustainable Supply Chains, and Leonardo Bonanni ( @amerigo ), founder and CEO of Sourcemap, write, “The concept of supply chain transparency was virtually unknown 15 years ago, yet today it commands the attention of mid- and senior-level managers across a broad spectrum of companies and industries.”[1]

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Q: Food vs Fuel? A: Wrong question…We need more efficient markets!

Supply Chain View from the Field

He has been working in the industry for over 25 years, and we had an opportunity to share thoughts on the “food vs. fuel” debate. Looking at vegetable oils, with a global population of 7B people, each consuming the recommended 40g of dietary fat per day, 365 days per year, would require just over 100M metric tons of oil.

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Benchmarking Success: Focus on what Matters

Logistics Bureau

We set our performance targets according to the best-in-class metrics and I ended up helping these three companies successively achieve demonstrable best-in-class supply chain performance. They know of course how they did against last year and they’ll probably have some customer satisfaction metrics, but that’s not the full picture.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Supply Chain Corporate.

Supply Chains Rock

By the end of 2008, we had completed a cumulative total of 553 initial audits; including expansion into three additional growth market countries (36 initial audits): Argentina, Malaysia and Vietnam. Industrial Interface. In 2008, IBM spent $1.5 billion inside the U.S. These PELM operations reused or recycled 96.9 EU Logistics Hub Blog.

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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Wholesalers in 2019: Drop Those Bad Habits from 2018

EMERGE App

South-East Asian nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are ready with substitutes or alternative suppliers. In the cut-throat wholesale and distribution industry, there’s actually very little to distinguish you from your competitors. Keep an eye on this metric to avoid a deadstock situation.