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This Week in Logistics News (June 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

This pledge commits suppliers to achieving carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions related to products or services provided to GM, and to attaining an EcoVadis score of at least 50 by 2025 in the areas of Labor and Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement.

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February LMI Report Points to Inventory Surges

Supply Chain Matters

Administration are becoming either a noted concern or inventory hedging opportunity area for global based manufacturers and materials procurement teams. Both the announcements and added threats or added tariff actions by the U.S. import tariffs, including likely retaliatory tariffs. The reported overall value of 62.8

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Experts Unfold Top Supply Chain Technology to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

In the near-term, hosted software and cloud computing are making sophisticated warehouse, transportation and labor management systems accessible to organizations that could never support the significant capital investment required to discretely license the same software. Connected devices can also support the warehouse worker (i.e.

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Achieve the Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chain Consumers Demand

Logility

GSCM includes green initiatives to accomplish the ultimate goals: green materials, green production, reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chains, and green procurement and returns. For example, the Sierra Nevada Brewing company composts its waste into fertilizer for its on-site gardens, diverting 99.8%

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July’s Transportation and Logistics Index Provides Important Insights

Supply Chain Matters

Note: values of this index above 50 are indicative of an expansion of overall logistics industry activity levels ) The summary narrative communicated for July 2024 was indications of “ positive movements in the transportation market contrasting with a moderate contraction in inventories and slowing rates of expansion in the warehousing market.”

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Evidence Mounts of Non Peak Holiday Season in Transportation and Logistics

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ”

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Breaking Industry Supply Chain News from Tesla

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development involving Tesla’s existing Nevada based Gigafactory that will be of interest to Automotive EV manufacturers and their supply networks. Tesla Announces Added Investment in Gigafactory Nevada Electric auto maker Tesla has announced a reported $3.6