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Supply Chain & Logistic News (August 19th – 23rd) 

Logistics Viewpoints

The vehicle deployments are expected to lower emissions by 7,052 metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, equivalent to 1,533 passenger cars removed from the road. To my surprise and a quick Google search, Frito Lays announced in 2022 that it will deploy over 700 electric delivery vehicles in the U.S. by the end of 2023.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

Yellen’s remarks, delivered during a speech in Germany, highlighted what is expected to be a central topic of discussion when the Group of 7 finance ministers meet in Italy this week. The solar panels will reduce the building’s carbon footprint by approximately 4,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The pilot went live in October 2017 in Spain, Italy, and Turkey and included the inbound materials planning managed by the planning service center in Krakow, Poland. The reason?

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Walmart Bests Whole Foods in Study of Food Supply's Human Toll

Material Handling & Logistics

Tesco Plc ranked the highest in the first-ever study of supply-chain policies from humanitarian group Oxfam America released on June 20, leading in transparency and worker-treatment metrics. Still, it did so with ratings of 29 and 42, respectively, on a 100-point scale.

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Will Consumer Goods Be Stronger from the Pandemic?

Supply Chain Game Changer

For example, FMCG demand grew by over ten percent in Italy, and by just under ten percent in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. McKinsey research found that 75% of American consumers had tried new products or bought from new places or changed the way that they shop because of the pandemic and lockdown.

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The Evolution of a Supply Chain Planning Support Team

DynaSys

We adapted the metrics put in place by QAD in order to measure our activity, which helped us in understanding what we could do, how we could improve, and what were our limits. The number of support requests increased, and with the growing experience of DynaSys in the Supply Chain domain, more complex projects were started.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

billion metric tons of goods in 2015. and Italy hover at just under five percent. Belgium has 41 airports, 26 of which have paved runways and six of which can handle large cargo aircraft. The seven registered air freight carriers in Belgium carried 1.4 leaving the EU. Germany accounts for 16 percent of Belgium’s exports; France for 14.9

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