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Food Waste is a Big Problem That Can be Solved

DELMIA Quintiq

Even if the festive season looks a little different since the pandemic hit, food waste remains one of the biggest negative side effects of holiday consumption. Food waste has become a major global problem with real consequences to the planet. Pete Pearson Director of Food Waste, WWF.

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Food Labels and Food Waste

Enterra Insights

”[1] When lack of food is a concern, food waste should also be a concern. And, when it comes to food waste, few people think about the important role played by packaging labels. ” Is eliminating date labels the best option?

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4 Best Practices for Reducing Medical Supply Waste!

Supply Chain Game Changer

However, due to the nature of work involved in healthcare facilities, a significant amount of medical supply waste is generally expected. Medical supply waste is an issue that plagues healthcare facilities across the world. Reducing Ordering Frequency. Subscribe Here!

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

These are the companies and leaders that aren’t letting a good downturn go to waste. HBR also cites technology’s ability to cut costs and to make “companies more agile and therefore better able to handle […] uncertainty and rapid change.” Reduced working capital.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns. And to begin the targeting process, marketing teams must develop an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) with appropriate firmographic and behavioral data to ensure they’re going after the correct audience.Download this eBook to learn how to start improving your marketing team's data!

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Ways Businesses Can Reduce Waste This Christmas

IT Supply Chain

The post Ways Businesses Can Reduce Waste This Christmas appeared first on IT Supply Chain. By Nathan Gray (pictured). Head of Sustainability, Reconomy. Industry Talk

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The 15 Best Ways to Reduce Inventory and Cut Costs

Unleashed

One major aspect of running a lean business is reducing inventory – that is, a reduction in the amount of inventory your organisation keeps on hand at a given time. In this article we outline the 15 best methods you can use to reduce inventory: Why do businesses reduce inventory?

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Editor’s Choice: Remove Wasted Time and Your Operations Can Soar Like an Eagle

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Open Sky Group and offers tips for removing wasted time in your operations. Less aspirational can be reducing the time that keeps on slipping away in your warehouse operations. Removing warehouse wasted time. That wasted time and effort fuels fatigue.

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The Importance of a Strong Supply Chain and Logistics Strategy!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A solid supply chain and logistics strategy is essential for large companies. Using a logistics-oriented strategy helps companies better understand their suppliers, improve customer service, and optimize shipping. They can also reduce the number of empty miles and traffic jams.

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Is Inventory Waste or an Asset?

Supply Chain Shaman

We were discussing the results of the planning benchmarking work that we have just finished, and I was sharing some insights on inventory management when one of the panelists emphatically stated, “Inventory is a waste to manage. Companies need to carefully manage the asset and mitigate the waste. The successful answer depends on supply chain strategy and the building of strong processes to manage supply. The strategy requires careful definition with finance.

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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

choose to extend a job offer to Tim as soon as he completes the in-person interview, eliminating downtime he would otherwise spend waiting to hear back from the. status updates and guidance from his friendly AI recruiting assistant, eliminating the. The next. wave of. AI-led.

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Understanding Lean and the 8 Wastes

The Logistics of Logistics

Understanding lean and the 8 wastes is important for all operations people including logistics and supply chain folks. The concept of lean (and the 8 wastes) originated in the manufacturing sector where it was first recognized that eliminating waste in the system led to much bigger profits. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value added wastes.” Waste is generated when providing higher quality products than is necessary.

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How Technology Can Help Tackle Food Waste!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! Tackle food waste article and permission to publish here provided by Boris Dzhingarov. Food waste is a major issue in this country, but it is one that is thankfully gaining more attention. Subscribe Here!

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How Healthcare Supply Chain Automation Reduces Waste

Tecsys

Learn how healthcare supply chain automation reduces waste in these 3 areas: labor, expired or lost products, and charge capture. The post How Healthcare Supply Chain Automation Reduces Waste appeared first on Tecsys.

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Food Waste: The World Can’t Afford It

Enterra Insights

However, another, less obvious factor — food waste — is exacerbating the food security challenge. All one needs to do to find someone wasting food is look in the mirror. Don’t waste food.”[1] Waste is happening at every point, from the field to the dinner table.”

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Food Waste: The World Can’t Afford It

Enterra Insights

However, another, less obvious factor — food waste — is exacerbating the food security challenge. All one needs to do to find someone wasting food is look in the mirror. Don’t waste food.”[1] Waste is happening at every point, from the field to the dinner table.”

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Optimised production for pharmaceutical waste reduction

IT Supply Chain

The post Optimised production for pharmaceutical waste reduction appeared first on IT Supply Chain. By Alexandra Hughes (pictured). Industry Sales Manager, COPA-DATA UK. Industry Talk

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7 types of manufacturing wastes and how to reduce them

Unleashed

Manufacturing waste is something business owners often overlook, yet left unchecked, it can cost a business a significant amount of money. From transportation waste, inventory waste, defective products and more, waste can accrue in a range of areas across the company.

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How Shoppers and Retailers Can Reduce Waste This Thanksgiving

Elementum

Concerns about food waste and changing consumer preferences are posing new challenges — and opportunities — to the food supply chain. In fact, e ach year America throws out about a third of its food, and 10 percent of that waste occurs at the retail level. For example, in-store promotions and bulk sales may encourage waste at the consumer level. Scaling down waste is important not only for reducing methane emissions (one of the biggest contributors to climate change).

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20 Cash Flow Management Strategies For Your Business

Unleashed

In these tricky times, smart cash flow management strategies are essential to bring down costs (or push profits) in controllable areas, offsetting international instability. This is achieved through the implementation and continued improvement of cash flow management strategies.

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Zero Waste Supply Chain Management in Food Industry with AI

ThroughPut

Making Zero Waste Supply Chain A Possibility in the Food Industry with AI. Between 33-50% of food produced globally is never eaten, and this wasted food is worth over $1 trillion. According to BCG , by 2030 annual food loss and waste will hit 2.1

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. Food waste accounts for eight percent of global greenhouse gases and has significant environmental and economic impacts. billion tonnes of food – over $9 billion worth – goes to waste each year.

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Make Your Supply Chains Less Complex – and Less Wasteful!

Talking Logistics

Complexity also fragments management focus, wastes time and money, and ultimately reduces shareholder value. How do you reduce supply chain complexity, or at least slow its growth? Added complexity often results in added waste, and the most common forms of waste from a lean supply chain perspective include : Transportation : unnecessary (non-value added) movement of parts, materials, or information between processes.

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How AR and VR Can Cut Waste in the Supply Chain

All Things Supply Chain

Companies are adopting advanced technologies to optimize material… General AR augmented reality carbon footprint pandemic shipping smart glasses smart systems supply chain supply chain management supply chain waste sustainability technology virtual reality VR

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Waste Not, Want Not: Thanksgiving and the Food Waste Conundrum

Elementum

While it ensures that Thanksgiving continues to be a celebration of plenty, concerns about food waste and changing consumer preferences are posing new challenges to this model. The statistic might be surprising, but the holiday isn’t the only time Americans are responsible for large-scale food waste. Each year America throws out about a third of its food, and 10 percent of that waste occurs at the retail level. How can retailers avert waste this year?

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How Australia is Dealing with Packaging and Waste!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Australia dealing with packaging and waste article and permission to publish here provided by Jake Noah. Many businesses are taking active steps to manage waste, including in their choice of protective packaging and packaging supplies. 5) National Compostable Packaging Strategy. (6)

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Maximizing Supply Chain Strategy: A 10-Step Guide

RFgen

Strategy is a critical aspect of supply chain management. By managing processes like planning, sourcing, production, and delivery, companies can reduce costs, safeguard against undue risk, and pivot quickly when faced with the unexpected.

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How Intelligent Planning Helps Manufacturers Manage Inventory and Reduce Waste

Supply Chain Brain

Years of pandemic-era supply chain disruptions and volatile consumer demand have created inventory challenges. Intelligent planning can help

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Waste Management Supply Chain Strategies to Strengthen the Bottom Line

Maine Pointe

Collin Ziemerink EVP, Industrial Manufacturing & Services and Kim Szeg, Engagement Director, discuss how, in the light of strong growth projections, the waste industry needs to transform its supply chain.

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Manufacturing Strategies Explained.

ModusLink Corporation

Synergy is a core element present in many successful manufacturing strategies. The synergy effect within a business is the result of mutual interaction between two individual company elements, usually achieved by executing a specific strategy. Manufacturing Strategies in Supply Chain.

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U.K. Grocer Removes Best-Before Dates to Tackle Food Waste

Supply Chain Brain

retailer Marks & Spencer is removing best-before dates from a range of fresh produce to help reduce in-store and household food waste

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The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy

Supply Chain Game Changer

Certainly we should all reduce, reuse and recycle and it applies everywhere! As such we have the direct or indirect ability to take actions which can promote environmental sustainability, reduce carbon footprint impacts, and drive the creation of the Green Supply Chain. All of these elements of the Supply Chain will drive the consumption of energy, natural resources, raw materials and the creation of waste. Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction. Reduce energy usage.

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Eliminate Waste In Your Warehouse With Mobile Data Collection

RFgen

Mobile data collection can help companies better manage their inventories to eliminate excess. Here are three ways mobile data collection will help your company eliminate waste in your warehouses: 1. Better Identification of Waste. Cut Out Anti-Productive Processes.

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Eliminate Waste In Your Warehouse With Mobile Data Collection

RFgen

Mobile data collection can help companies better manage their inventories to eliminate excess. Here are three ways mobile data collection will help your company eliminate waste in your warehouses: 1. Better Identification of Waste. Cut Out Anti-Productive Processes.

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Intel Recognized for Circular Economy Push That Cuts Landfill Waste

Supply Chain Brain

By adopting a circular economy approach, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is now sending less than 1% of returned products to landfills

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Four Ways to Reduce Hospital Supply Chain Waste

Tecsys

Clinical supply waste is a significant, and growing, financial and environmental challenge in healthcare. Hospitals must implement programs to reduce overall waste while finding cost-effective treatment and disposal methods of their non-regulated and regulated medical waste.

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New Infrastructure Could Cut Oil Industry's Waste

Supply Chain Brain

Part of the energy transition will include adapting oil and gas production rather than abandoning it entirely