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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. GEON Embarks on a Digital Transformation GEON Performance Solutions is embarking on a supply chain transformation. The solution to peanut butter costing is activity-based costing.

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

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Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased energy. 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. Scope 1 emissions include direct emissions from the company’s owned and controlled sources.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon will leverage its expertise in global logistics to get such things as shelter materials, hygiene items, blankets, and clothing to front-line organizations quickly and efficiently. And it sounds like authorities have no more answers than they did on the morning of March 18, 1990.

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6 Tips for Creating Private Label Products for Amazon FBA

EMERGE App

She wanted to quit, get some much-needed sun outside of Minnesota’s long winter and then reassess her career goals and objectives. Your website and Amazon FBA are just tools for your business. These tools work for everyone the same way regardless of what products you’re selling. First, she had to buy some samples.

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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

The Risk of Outdated Forecasting Software. Outdated forecasting software only increases the risks surrounding a disrupted supply chain. There are Five Symptoms of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory Planning Software: Have you diagnosed your problem– and solution–to improved demand planning? Data source: Datasembly.

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Trucking Market Update and 2020 Q1 Freight Outlook

Zipline Logistics

The year’s struggles were pervasive and felt by most carriers, but as the year closes it leads us to the question, what is the logistics market outlook for 2020? The possible thawing of tense relations could spell an eventual welcomed change from the logistics world. Tariffs’ Impacts on the Trucking Market. Drivers Tough to Hire, Keep.

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Fostering E-commerce Growth with Jonathan Kish

The Logistics of Logistics

I ended up selling small parcel to companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin for a few years before transitioning into selling transportation management solutions to companies in the Pacific Northwest. [02:25] 04:13] What does the post-purchase experience look like? 05:33] When you wrote this article, who were you writing it for?