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Stop Food Waste Day 2024

Enterra Insights

The RTS staff reports, “The United States discards more food than any other country in the world: nearly 60 million tons — 120 billion pounds — every year. ”[2] Here’s the rub: “The United States currently does not have a single baseline estimate of food loss and waste.” Processing.

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How is the Logistics Economy Holding Up?

Logistics Viewpoints

Source: J.P. But cross-border trade is an important part of the global economy and much of this trade is in physical goods that must be stored, shipped, transported, and eventually consumed. The United States publishes monthly advance economic indicators that can provide more recent and updated information.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of over 100 supply chain crisis statistics to help you stay informed and build a more agile, resilient supply chain. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020).

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. Business logistics costs as a percentage of GDP is currently 7-8% in United States.

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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Headline news that day was Theranos’, once-Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes, 38, sentenced to over 11 years in prison by a United States District Court for defrauding investors of her firm to revolutionize blood-testing technology. As I returned to my hotel room, I thought about this dilemma. Confirmation bias.

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Considerations for China Plus Supply Chain Sourcing Actions

Supply Chain Matters

The premise of the report is that this cluster seems evenly matched with China in relation to supply of working age labor, lower cost of labor and domestic market and export potential to countries such as the United States , where the latter is evenly matched as of 2022. One example indicated was that U.S. All rights reserved.

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3 Initiatives Driving Sustainable Transportation and Logistics Management

BlueYonder

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today. In 2007, the U.S.