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The Day of Reckoning for Sustainability Claims

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For example, a Nielson poll found that 66% of adult consumers are willing to pay more for eco-friendly products and 50% of purchasing decisions are influenced by sustainability claims. Changing the Way Materials Are Sourced. In other words, greenwashing exists because green sells. A large body of research bears this out.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

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Maersk has unabashedly championed vertical integration for years, advocating an “end-to-end” strategy. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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The Top 15 Benefits of Ecommerce to Business

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It also requires smart sales strategies, such as surfacing the right products at various points in the customer journey. Purchases can be made while on the move, on impulse and in response to a particular need at that time. Despite this very clear benefit, only 38% of UK manufacturers in the study were eCommerce enabled.

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Food Industry Trends for 2021

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It’s become even more important that businesses navigate multiple supply chains with food manufacturing software. It passes important information through each step, taking place in a fully-automated and data-protected space, but is able to be accessed by every party in the supply chain.

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FIFO vs LIFO: Advantages & Disadvantages

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But in some countries, only one inventory valuation strategy is permitted by law. FIFO assumes the items first purchased or first produced are the first items to be sold. Under the FIFO method, the inventory you have left at the end of your accounting period would be the items you’ve most recently purchased or produced.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

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Effective supply chain management is essential for success in the dynamism and connectivity of modern companies. To accomplish this, you require the skills of supply chain experts who can manage the complexity and difficulties of today’s global supply chains. They come from a variety of backgrounds.

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4 Ways to Lift Manufacturing Productivity: The MFP Approach

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Over the past ten years, the issue of stagnating productivity in the United Kingdom has grown to seem almost unstoppable. Each report on the issue from the country’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) offers few signs of hope — to the point that no individual solution seems sufficient to tackle such an overwhelming problem.