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ERP Aids Your Sustainability Initiatives

QAD

Taking Ford as an example from the companies above, Ford is working with key suppliers in China, India, Thailand and South Africa to eliminate over 4,900 metric tons of CO2 and 24 million gallons of water usage over the next three years.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Functional metric orientation.

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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. For example, in South Africa, more than 90% of surveyed women working on on grape farms reported not having enough to eat in the previous month.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

metric tons of carbon emissions from contributing to global warming in 2015. Apple’s been sharing its supply chain logistics management information with the public in an official release for the last 10 years. The Apple report showed how new green distribution practices stopped 13.8

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

metric tons of carbon emissions from contributing to global warming in 2015. Apple’s been sharing its supply chain logistics management information with the public in an official release for the last 10 years. The Apple report showed how new green distribution practices stopped 13.8

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Digital logistics? The use of GPS, telematics, and cognitive learning to build logistics systems that sense and adapt.) For the next 18 weeks I will be in the air. Digital sourcing?

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

He has managed onshore / offshore / war zone logistics as well as batch, continuous, and discrete manufacturing setups. How do I start using my existing operations data metrics like cycle time, uptime to help create operational benefits for my teams? Ali Raza : Founder and CEO, ThroughPut Inc. to measure and track my bottlenecks?