Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2023

Supply chain sustainability can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. As I have written about before, supply chain sustainability , or the notion of going green, is a hot topic as companies and countries look at their overall carbon footprint and look for ways to be more environmentally friendly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous supply chains can also help businesses by enabling new business models, such as direct-to-consumer, subscription-based, and circular, and creating new sources of revenue and competitive advantage. Autonomous Shipping Autonomous shipping is the use of self-driving vessels to transport goods and passengers across waterways.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SEFE will manage global ammonia sourcing and distribution through Germanys hydrogen core grid, while Hegh Evi will provide midstream infrastructure, including shipping and floating ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. These passports provide a digital way to document a products entire lifecycle, ensuring compliance and transparency.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SEFE will manage global ammonia sourcing and distribution through Germanys hydrogen core grid, while Hegh Evi will provide midstream infrastructure, including shipping and floating ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. These passports provide a digital way to document a products entire lifecycle, ensuring compliance and transparency.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Itamar Zur and Joe Lynch discuss reinventing ecommerce shipping. About Veho Veho ’s mission is to power the future of commerce by making shopping, shipping and returns work seamlessly for everyone. Veho is reinventing shipping, and all parts of the post-purchase experience as we know it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Meanwhile, LogiSYM Asia Pacific, a well-established event with over a decade of history, brought together professionals from supply chain, logistics, and shipping sectors for strategic discussions on resilience, digitalization, sustainability, and global trade dynamics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Supply chain sustainability has become a very hot topic, but for a lot of people, there is uncertainty around its meaning. However, sustainability in logistics goes well beyond these initiatives, especially when we begin to look at energy transition. A recent ARC survey looked at reasons to address sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sustainability is definitely coming of age in Asia. However, there is now a growing appreciation that going green correlates with increased profit as demand for products with sustainable credentials grow and Asian companies get set to move up the value chain. As driving greater sustainability is a key factor in reducing risk.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If you are a product manufacturer, you know all too well the perils of shipping products from your factory or warehouse to a DC or retailer. Packaging and product damage during shipping is extremely common. When you ship a product , your goal is simple: make sure it gets there in good condition. Inside the Box.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

From sourcing and bid evaluation to warehouse slotting and dynamic routing, AI tools support faster and more consistent outcomes by processing large volumes of operational data and identifying patterns that human decision-makers may overlook. Integration allows seamless transitions from data insights to purchase approvals and execution.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 21, 2020

Whether you represent a metal fabrication company, a consumer goods manufacturer or a paint, fiberglass or paper producer, you have several ways to make the operation a more sustainable one. Any company that wants to make its manufacturing facilities more sustainable must incorporate recycled materials in the supply chain.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 28, 2025

This shift towards sustainable practices includes the realm of shipping, which is a significant component of global trade. How does sustainable shipping meet the growing demand for eco-friendly choices from consumers? This article will delve deeper into shipping and how it effectively meets consumer expectations.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

Shipping packaging materials comes with its own set of challenges that can disrupt operations and impact profitability. From cost fluctuations to sustainability requirements, understanding and addressing these hurdles is essential for smooth logistics. This is especially true for plastic products, which are under increasing scrutiny.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Ongoing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis continue to disrupt shipping lanes in the chemical industry’s supply chain, according to Al Greenwood, chemicals expert and deputy editor at ICIS. Lidl’s partnership with WWF builds on previous commitments to achieve a more sustainable future.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2025

Subscribe Building Your Dream Space: How Shipping Containers are Revolutionizing Architecture! Have you ever had a latte served from a repurposed shipping container in the heart of Times Square? If not, you’re missing out on one of the most creative and sustainable urban café experiences in the world. Why Shipping Containers?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Developed under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Convention mandates that ships at the end of their operational lives must be recycled in a safe and environmentally sustainable way.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

True resiliency is achieved when supply chain leaders can predict issues and dynamically respond – from sourcing and manufacturing to final delivery – with agile solutions. Do you know, at a glance, how many component parts were shipped and if they will arrive in time?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Carton and Packing Optimization Carton optimization is a critical aspect of warehouse management, as it directly impacts shipping costs, storage space, and overall efficiency. You may be giving up some carton space efficiency for the benefits of stacking, storing, and shipping efficiencies. With 90% of items shipped in the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The sales team can go have those conversations, with real-time lead times and even the factory the product will ship from, with customers. That’s not a sustainable way to manage supply issues. This has been a real game changer for sales. It’s really reduced a lot of sales friction. But it’s not just a visibility platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. Now, Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) allows cost and sustainability to be traded off. Rich Kroes, Vice President of Global Sustainability at Oracle. Rich Kroes – Oracle’s vice president of global sustainability – was also on the call.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This could involve route optimization, load consolidation, or choosing the most cost-effective shipping methods based on urgency and distance. For example, a long order cycle time might indicate inefficiencies in order processing or shipping. This reduces dependency on a single source and provides alternatives in case of disruptions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Furthermore, with the increased focus on sustainability and reducing carbon emissions, organisations have to carefully select and evaluate their suppliers to meet these goals. Hence, businesses must undertake the strategic sourcing process to mitigate risks in an uncertain environment and improve retail competition.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

He sees a near future in which there are multiple agents, each with their own realm of responsibility, such as shipping, pricing and forecasting. Koganti said this is the fastest-growing use of AI in supply chain, especially when it comes to forecasting, procurement and fulfillment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2021

A lot of this effort comes down to more sustainable sourcing, which tends to make environmental-conscious consumers happy. Egypt’s Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship. Starbucks to improve sustainable coffee sourcing. Port congestion has caused a lot of shipping delays over the course of the last year.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Identifying sources of Carbon emissions. These are classified into sources of emissions as Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3. These are considered “indirect” greenhouse gas sources. Scope 3 emissions are the amount of carbon emitted by vendors and suppliers in your value chain, another indirect source. So start measuring!

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Companies are sourcing materials from all over the world, and need to identify those regions which are most important, and which provide the greatest risk for disruptions. These disruptions occur for myriad reasons, such as factory disruptions in China or ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Matt is the Co-Founder and CEO of popcapacity , which is dedicated to simplifying the process for sourcing warehouse space. Popcapacity leverages technology to simplify the process of sourcing warehouse space. Our platform was designed to reduce amount of time and cost associated with sourcing new warehouse and fulfillment space.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eight proven optimization strategies, combining technology, best practices, and sustainable solutions. Best practices for sustainable optimization, ensuring long-term efficiency and minimizing your environmental footprint. They blend technology, smart processes, and sustainable approaches for lasting results.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

e-commerce customers’ love for free shipping. ‘de minimis’ rule, which exempts imports under $800 from customs and makes brokerage fees minimal, they have shipped massive volumes via air cargo. Source: Freightos Air Index The Commercial and Ethical Impact Beyond the underlying costs, U.S. Utilizing the U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

The Demand for Carbon Accounting The push for sustainability isn’t new, but it has reached a tipping point. Tesco and Walmart have announced procurement policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability throughout their extended supply chains. At the same time, global regulations are tightening.

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