Four Reasons Data Builds a Circular Supply Chain
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
Navigating a linear supply chain is like driving down a one-way, dead-end street — movement is forced down a singular path and there’s only one place to go: the garbage.
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UK Material Handling Association Appoints New CEO
Logistics Business Magazine
MAY 5, 2024
The UK Material Handling Association (UKMHA) announces Rob Fisher (pictured) as its Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1st, 2024. Rob Fisher will succeed Tim Waples, Chief Executive UKMHA, whose retirement was announced earlier in the year, and Cameron Burnett, CEO Designate. Under Waples’ stewardship, which dates back to 2020 when BITA and FLTA combined, UKMHA has flourished.
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Six Steps on the Journey to Environmentally Compliant Warehouses
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MAY 5, 2024
Companies need to take an integrated approach to improving the environmental performance of their warehouses. Experience shows that allowing for key factors at the outset can make the journey easier.
Six Steps to Driving Social Responsibility Across an Extended Enterprise
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The performance and risk of an organization’s third-party ecosystem, including suppliers, vendors and service providers, are becoming increasingly linked to its business reputation, ethos and even its continued viability.
Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?
Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.
Revolutionizing Sustainability: The Technological Evolution in Manufacturing
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MAY 5, 2024
The manufacturing industry is in the midst of a digital revolution, with AI taking the spotlight and being deployed on a broader scale, allowing companies to elevate their sustainability efforts.
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Embracing the Circular Economy: Eliminating the Idea of Waste in the Supply Chain
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Traditional linear models of production and consumption, characterized by "take-make-dispose" processes, have led to significant environmental degradation and resource depletion.
ESG Compliance: It’s a Problem of Scope
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Editor's Letter: When it comes to “social sustainability,” or human rights, much of the corporate world is still unprepared for the regulations and legislation that they’ll be encountering.
Removing Trucks from the Road to Cut Carbon Emissions
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Load optimization software streamlines the transportation planning process, enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and minimizes environmental impact.
Supply Chain’s Role in Reducing Scope 3 Emissions
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As a supply chain organization, you are uniquely positioned to impact your own emission-reduction goals, as well as those of your upstream and downstream partners — so-called Scope 3 emissions.
Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs
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Houthis Threaten to Attack Ships in Mediterranean Sea
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Although Houthis have regularly hit vessels in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 2023, there's little evidence they can do so beyond those waters.
Environmental Considerations Beyond Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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MAY 5, 2024
Recent U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon neutrality, merely scratch the surface. Here are other environmental considerations your company should start thinking about now.
Preventing Forced Labor in Supply Chains Is Crucial to Resilience and Sustainable Growth
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The largest multinational companies across multiple sectors are demonstrating a lack of real progress in addressing forced labor in supply chains.
Decarbonizing Transportation Supply Chains
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With transportation contributing to 16.2% of global emissions, embracing sustainability in all transportation modes is essential for long-term success and a greener future.
Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations
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As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.
Five Steps to More Sustainable Operations Through Digitization
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For process manufacturers, a more sustainable plant is also more profitable, productive, efficient and resilient. Smart digitization strategies can help plants identify opportunities for improvement.
Driving Strategic Value: Building a More Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chain
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Sustainability is a growing priority as investor and consumer pressure mounts, and governments around the world enact regulations that require organizations to report on emissions and climate-related risks.
Returns and Sustainability: A Report
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The goTRG & SupplyChainBrain Retail Returns Sustainability Report 2024 presents insights from our co-branded survey exploring the evolving landscape of sustainable practices within the retail industry.
How Pallet Makers Contribute to a More Socially Conscious Supply Chain
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MAY 5, 2024
Consumers demand that stakeholders within the supply chain behave as socially responsible corporate citizens. Not only is this a business necessity; it also makes the world a better place.
Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes
Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski
Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea
Meeting Customer Demand and ESG Targets with One Strategy: Nearshoring
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Nearshoring satisfies customer demand, contributes to ESG goals, and creates a foundation for supply chain resiliency.
ESG and the Challenges for Supply Chain Compliance
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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations continue to proliferate and take on dimensions of complexity that are creating challenges for global organizations to even comprehend, let alone comply with.
On the Decarbonization Journey: A Strategic Approach to Supply Chain Sustainability
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Increasing pressures from investors and customers, coupled with a surge in climate change regulations, are forcing supply chains to transition to sustainable practices and curb their carbon footprint.
Greek Naval Drills See Oil Tankers Depart Key Transfer Area
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When sanctions were placed on Russian oil sales following the war in Ukraine, the Laconian Gulf became a key spot for switching cargoes between vessels, prompting environmental concerns.
How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
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Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Sustainability and Profitability — Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Sustainability shouldn’t be isolated from business growth. Shippers, customers, carriers and investors can simultaneously reduce environmental impact while advancing their economic interests.
To Achieve Supply Chain Sustainability, Complex Manufacturers Have a Long Road Ahead
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When it comes to supply chain ESG, most companies have a lot of work ahead to achieve the deepest levels of program maturity. But it’s worth the effort.
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AI is emerging as a powerful tool for businesses to reduce waste in their supply chains. It can help optimize processes, predict demand more accurately, minimize waste and improve efficiency.
Navigating a Greener Future: How Enhanced Visibility Is Steering Shipping Toward Sustainability
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A data- and technology-driven solution will minimize the industry’s carbon footprint, and bring it into line with global sustainability goals.
The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization
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Supply Chains Know No Borders When It Comes to New Climate Disclosure Regulations
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Companies need to accurately calculate their global supply chain emissions, comply with the new sweeping climate disclosure regulations, and create a supportive climate information-sharing ecosystem.
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