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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. Pharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen built a new biomanufacturing plant in Singapore that uses 70% less carbon than traditional facilities. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain. Buffering creates waste.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!”

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