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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8 Helen Obiri of Kenya won the women’s division with a time of 2:21:38. With increased emphasis on sustainability, I am often asked about sustainability “levers” that can be pulled in warehousing and fulfillment.

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Ivalua Announces Carbon Footprint Innovation Cup Winners at Ivalua NOW 2022: How digitally enabled smart procurement can help organizations reduce scope 3 carbon emissions

ivalua

The PwC / Ivalua team was awarded first place for their Sustainability Tracker. To offset carbon produced by its event and to support local communities in developing countries, Ivalua has entered a partnership with Treedom to plant and nurture 1000 trees in Cameroon, Columbia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Tanzania and Kenya. About Ivalua.

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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification by Timothy Foote, Founder of Susymbio Access to Sustainable Power is the Challenge of Our Time, but when clean power sources are diversified it promises more stability for our future. The past century has been plagued with conflicts fueled by the want or need of fossil fuels.

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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

These include areas such as seed science, automation, and regenerative agriculture practices, which can help directly address current challenges while tapping into a growing market for sustainable solutions in areas like biodiversity and carbon. Finance school food and public procurement programs.

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Winner of the last quarter: Unilever’s Marc Engel

Supply Chain Movement

In his 20-year career with Unilever, Engel has worked in Singapore, the Netherlands, UK, Brazil, Switzerland and Kenya. He is an Executive Board Member of Kenya Association of Manufacturers and a member of the Supervisory Board of PostNL.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Circularity and sustainability are really hot topics in parallel with digital transformation. There’s been a lot of greenwashing in the last couple of years in which businesses are trying to look more sustainable than they really are. Prior to the pandemic, there was this massive desire to buy more sustainably produced products.

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The introduction of E-Procurement.

ModusLink Corporation

The ease of accessibility of this technology causes many organizations to shift towards E-Procurement as an effective and innovative Supply Chain support system to help companies reach goals including operational efficiencies, sustainability, and profitability. International Non-Governmental Organisations in Kenya. 2017, April).