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Go Green or Go Home: Why Sustainability in the Last Mile is Crucial for Your Business

Locus

Production and transportation activities are energy-intensive, but this also means the potential for implementing greener practices lay here. An optimum utilization of resources can aid this and reducing the number of empty miles can shrink carbon footprint and capture transportation cost savings. Sources: ?? Schedule Demo.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I graduated as an industrial engineer from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. It’s the carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per unit of material. I’m an engineer by training. Then we all win.

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YARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Questionnaire

The Lean Supply Chain

The other software companies that sell YMS below, sell it in conjunction with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS) so there is no way to gauge those YMS sales as they could be with, or without, the YMS system depending on the customer’s needs. YMS vendors : High Jump. Red Prairie. C3 Solutions.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. The combination of technology along with the advancements in transportation made it possible. Governance in Supply Chain Processes.

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Warehouse Management: Systems, Processes, & Strategies

Unleashed

They have forks at the front that can be raised or lowered to pick up palletized goods and transport them within the warehouse. They have forks that can be inserted under a pallet to lift and transport it short distances. They can be used for transporting products for sorting, packing, and loading goods onto trucks.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supply chain. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The reason? Talking numbers worked.