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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Removing the Internal Tension Between Cost and Sustainability
Art of Procurement
MAY 5, 2024
“Only when we stop accepting the fact that procurement is being made to make decisions that are not the best. The post Removing the Internal Tension Between Cost and Sustainability appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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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.
CN Rail Workers Vote to Strike
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Canada Sees Trade Deficit in March Canada saw its largest trade deficit in nine months last March with a trade deficit of $2.28 billion. Total exports feel 5.3% whereas economists expected a trade surplus of $1.5 billion. (I guess the business for forecasting is still not an accurate thing.) US Government Procurement Stats There’s good news and bad news for small businesses that look to become vendors of the US Government: The good news: the value of contracts doled out to small businesses
GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025
Advertiser: GEP
2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.
Removing Trucks from the Road to Cut Carbon Emissions
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
Load optimization software streamlines the transportation planning process, enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and minimizes environmental impact.
Six Steps on the Journey to Environmentally Compliant Warehouses
Supply Chain Brain
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
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.
Revolutionizing Sustainability: The Technological Evolution in Manufacturing
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Houthis Threaten to Attack Ships in Mediterranean Sea
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MAY 5, 2024
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.
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.
GEP Outlook Report 2025
Advertiser: GEP
For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic
Five Steps to More Sustainable Operations Through Digitization
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
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
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
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
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
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
Supply Chain Brain
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.
10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
To Achieve Supply Chain Sustainability, Complex Manufacturers Have a Long Road Ahead
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
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.
ESG and the Challenges for Supply Chain Compliance
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MAY 5, 2024
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.
From Reactive to Resilient: Charting Your Supply Chain Maturity
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In this webinar, supply chain industry experts share insights and best practices for enhancing supply chain efficiency, resilience and adaptability. Watch the webinar to learn strategies to develop supply chain maturity and save on costs. Delve into the stages of supply chain maturity, from foundational management to advanced optimization and innovation.
Sustainability and Profitability — Two Sides of the Same Coin
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 5, 2024
Sustainability shouldn’t be isolated from business growth. Shippers, customers, carriers and investors can simultaneously reduce environmental impact while advancing their economic interests.
Navigating a Greener Future: How Enhanced Visibility Is Steering Shipping Toward Sustainability
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MAY 5, 2024
A data- and technology-driven solution will minimize the industry’s carbon footprint, and bring it into line with global sustainability goals.
Four Ways AI Can Help Reduce Waste in Your Supply Chain
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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.
From Commitment to Action: How Innovative Packaging Solutions Bring Supply Chain Circularity
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To ensure the success of sustainable supply chain transformation, companies must back their plans with real-life data.
Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
Supply Chains Know No Borders When It Comes to New Climate Disclosure Regulations
Supply Chain Brain
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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.
AI’s Supply Chains Sustainability Benefits May Be Countered by Energy Consumption
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The environmental benefits of deploying AI may be overridden by the energy needed to power the technology.
How to Conquer Scope 3 Emissions and Steer to a Sustainable Future
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Supply chains need to take four key steps to become transparent and accountable for their carbon emissions.
How Retailers Can Up Their Sustainability Game
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Businesses typically fall into three categories in their sustainability adoption journey. This article will address those stages and how AI can enhance and advance sustainability initiatives.
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
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