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Sustainability: Do Supply Management and Global Sourcing Matter? (Guest Post by Jury Gualandris, UCD)

SCM Research

Increasing demand from a variety of stakeholders has pushed firms to improve environmental and social sustainability in their supply chains. Jury is a Lecturer at UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin, Ireland. His studies focus on the management of sustainability, risk and innovation under different supply chain structures.

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American Software Reports Third Quarterof Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

“This past quarter also heightened the importance of transparency and the continued adoption of AI and ML to enable sustainable and socially responsible businesses. Because of this, I believe the adoption of AI and ML is going to continue to accelerate and enable companies to truly optimize operations and achieve sustainability long-term.

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2022 so far: Proxima consistently recognized as industry leading

Proxima

This includes work with clients from the aviation sector such as EasyJet, in which we helped them revolutionize their in-flight retail program, to the food sector, where we worked with Baxters to optimize their spend and set up for a sustainable future. Finalists in three categories in industry-leading awards.

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Supply chain events calendar Europe for 2014

Supply Chain Movement

Supply Chain Innovations. 2014 Global Sustainability Standards Conference. Sustainable Purchasing & Supply Summit. S&OP Innovation. Textile Sustainability Conference. ‘ISC’ UK and Ireland. CTN Centre. Multimodal Europe. Eurologistics. 25-26 March. GTR Events. Value Chain. Reed Expo.

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Guest post: Sustainable monitoring in supply chains: it’s time for companies to reconnect with their stakeholders.

EcoVadis

Jury is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bergamo University (Bergamo, Italy), focusing his research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management. When embarking for the journey of supply chain sustainability, managers ideally need to balance breadth (i.e., number of supplier organizations covered by sustainable monitoring).

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Gartner Supply Chain Executive Roundtable

Supply Chain Movement

This roundtable will leave you with actionable insights on how to embed this critical capability in your organization- and steps you can take now to embrace the bi-model challenge while driving value in a sustainable fashion. Logistics leaders are challenged with seeking new ways to innovate, improve service delivery and reduce costs.

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The State of Digital Freight: The 4×4 Blueprint for Freight 2020

Freightos

Sustainability. On the positive side, there are a lot of exciting innovations happening. But there are some detrimental innovations as well. The amount of electricity that goes into mining bitcoin is more than the electricity needed to power Ireland. Our carbon footprint is growing quickly across all transportation modes.

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