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Packaging Firm Targets Massive Cut in Plastics Usage

Logistics Business Magazine

UK based company Kite Packaging has launched its sustainable future plastics initiative to reduce plastic levels with the unveiling of its new mobile packaging test facility and the release of a white paper. For further information on how to reduce your plastics use, please view our white paper (kitepackaging.co.uk/images/pdf/plastic-white-paper.pdf).

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5 data prerequisites for carrier predictive freight rating in logistics

FreightWaves SONAR

Due to the previous surge of China as the world’s factory over the last two decades, much of the global carriers’ business has revolved around transporting cargo between the U.S. Download the White Paper. Up until the end of 2019, more than half of the carriers were unprofitable.

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Drewry: Labor costs deflate China's bubble, near-sourcing on the rise

Blog on Log

Hey, I just reviewed this white paper and its pretty interesting.Drewry has always been a subtle shill for the ocean transport industry (and there is nothing wrong with that.the industry needs the support)and they remain bullish on China. A white paper from the London-based firm, Will China's Apparel Supply Chains Become Uncompetitive?,

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Positive Human-Robot Relationships Will Power the Future Supply Chain Workforce

247 Customs Broker

Richards (2017) adds that the modern factory must quickly align itself to the cultural change forced upon it by the advances in technology. Humans still must perform some of the most important job tasks – primarily those that involve planning and analysis functions and contact with customers. Preparing for Change. Richards, D.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. But there is one image I will never forget from my time there.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

And though it was more of a social issue than environmental one, Sheffi cites the 2013 collapse of an apparel factory building in Bangladesh that killed more than 100, after which a number of brand companies and retailers such as Walmart and JC Penny initially touted that the factories weren’t producing any of their products.