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Future-Proofing Transportation Spend in Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

In the ever-evolving supply chain industry, transportation spend optimization – or TSO – has assumed greater significance. The need to blend operational efficiency with sustainability and fiscal prudence has organizations exploring innovative ways to help ‘future-proof’ transportation spending challenges.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. More and more large U.S.

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Understanding Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain sustainability can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. As I have written about before, supply chain sustainability , or the notion of going green, is a hot topic as companies and countries look at their overall carbon footprint and look for ways to be more environmentally friendly. UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Megatrends Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Megatrends Shaping Supply Chain Innovation. And what are the key industry trends and innovations? In E2open’s Supply Chain Innovation Report 2021 , 73% of respondents claimed their supply chain is either moderately, slightly, or not at all resilient. Supply chain mapping is key to ongoing innovation.

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The Benefits of Sustainable Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies have many levers to pull to reduce their impact on the environment such as altering the materials used in products, using more sustainable packaging and even reducing business travel. For companies to achieve reductions in carbon footprints, they should look to sustainable investments in their supply chains for the greatest impact.

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Top Five Transportation Trends

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain disruptions have brought about an age of innovation. From a transportation standpoint, this has included major technological advancements. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. TMS Innovation. The Network Effect.

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MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics with Chris Caplice

The Logistics of Logistics

Chris Caplice and Joe Lynch discuss MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a wide range of logistics and supply chain topics. Chris is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT and serves as the Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). He received a Ph.D.