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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

P&G uses life cycle assessment for sustainable packaging design. Consumers are increasingly demanding greater transparency and sustainability from the companies they buy from, especially when it comes to the household products they use every day and how they’re packaged. Amazon’s electric delivery vehicles from Rivian rolls out.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

a Panasonic Group company, and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly jointly announced yesterday that the state of Kansas will be a new location for a proposed US-based lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility, pending approval by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Board of Directors. Panasonic Energy Co., is critical to help meet demand.”

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The Evolution of the Food & Beverage Value Chain: Driven By Consumers

QAD

For example, a dairy company and a bakery company teaming together for a promotion where the dairy company puts a coupon on a gallon of milk offering a discount for a package of cookies from a bakery manufacturing company. In turn, the cookie company offers a discount coupon for the gallon of milk from the dairy.

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DHL Relocates to a New and Larger Facility in Missouri

Supply Chain Brain

By moving its operations to Kansas City from St. Louis, DHL hopes to more than double the number of packages and parcels it processes in the Midwest.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

Packaging and agriculture are big areas of focus for the company. The long-term agreement will initially enroll corn, soy and wheat farmers across Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Nebraska, with the opportunity for future expansion. The company has tens of thousands of suppliers globally.

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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

Five years ago, I took over managing the software package AFW uses to coordinate flights, and I do this for a dozen other organizations in the U.S. Angel Flight West is in Santa Monica, one of the other groups is in Kansas City, and there are others in Long Island and Florida who will use it. We input data through a spreadsheet upload.

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The Evolution of the Food & Beverage Value Chain: Driven By Consumers

QAD

For example, a dairy company and a bakery company teaming together for a promotion where the dairy company puts a coupon on a gallon of milk offering a discount for a package of cookies from a bakery manufacturing company. In turn, the cookie company offers a discount coupon for the gallon of milk from the dairy.