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Fleet Management
Fleet Trucking Global Safety Standards Initiative Aims to Establish Industry Standards in Fleet Management
It aims to establish industry standards for fundamental safety instruments and will result in a comprehensive suite of recommended standards for a broad cross-section of critical safety instruments and technologies.
Clean Energy
Where Transportation Sustainability Legislation and Independent Contractors Collide
Fleet Management
Lytx Study Reveals Crucial Safety Trends for Fleets
Regulations
Alexis Asks: The Issue of Forced Labor and the Supply Chain
Carbon Footprint
Using ESG Data to Reduce Supply Chain Emissions
Manufacturing
5 Non-Regulatory Drivers of PFAS Restrictions
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Software & Technology
Top Software & Tech Award Honors New-to-Market Solutions
NEW THIS YEAR: This award is now a new product award, honoring new-to-market software and technology solutions in both Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive audiences. Submissions close Sept. 22.
Warehousing
Stop, Drop and Nominate a Female Supply Chain Professional
This award honors female supply chain leaders and executives. NEW THIS YEAR, this award is now ALSO open to Food Logistics' readers as well. Submissions close July 14.
Webinars
SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain 2023
June 6, 2023
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Topics revolve around Procurement, Warehouse Automation, Risk Management, Supply Chain Visibility, Achieving a Sustainable Footprint and more.
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Warehousing
New and Aging Employees Most Vulnerable to Workplace Accidents
Employees ages 60 and older had higher average costs per claim, totaling nearly 15% more than employees between the ages of 35-49 and approximately 140% more than those ages 18-24.
Sourcing Solutions
How to Achieve Multi-Departmental Funding and Support for Your Order Management System
By consulting all seven of these essential stakeholders, you can get all your internal stakeholders involved and aligned early to support your business case.
Expert Columnists
How to Manage Compliance Complexity of Mounting Global Sanctions
Whether adapting to forced labor legislation, monitoring intensifying sanctions against Russia, or navigating an increasingly challenging OFAC 50 Percent Rule, the compliance stakes are high.
Risk/Compliance
Third-Party Risk Management: Heavy on Regulations, Light on Results
Third-party risk management efforts can deliver results. Make incremental progress toward improving third-party governance by taking these steps.
Risk/Compliance
Manual Processes Still Dominate Third-Party Risk Management Programs: Study
A majority of companies (71%) report that the top concern regarding the usage of third parties is a data breach or other security incident due to poor vendor security practices. However manual methods still persist.
Packaging
Navigating a New Era of Packaging Compliance
Brands offering sustainable alternatives need to consider these barriers and their environmental credentials to achieve their true potential for impact.
Worker Safety
Why Human Centricity is Trending in Workforce Management
Organizations need to prioritize employee experience to thrive during labor shortages and a skittish economy. Fortunately, modern workforce management links worker wellbeing with desired business outcomes.
Clean Energy
How Creating a Compliant Supply Chains Leads to Resiliency
By keeping these few key priorities in mind, organizations can build a new level of ESG performance in their supply chains that ensures compliance while also driving business success.
Sourcing Solutions
Why Digital Procurement Is the New Standard for Excellence
If one thing has been made clear over the last three years, it’s that process resilience and sustainable procurement strategies are essential for mitigating supply chain risks and future-proofing supply chain infrastructures.
Trucking
How Freight Transportation and Logistics Adapt to Currency Volatility
Harnessing technology-driven tools and getting the right processes in place will help enable many freight transport and logistics companies to navigate mounting foreign exchange (FX) challenges.
Risk/Compliance
Manufacturers Wary of Nation-State Threats
Manufacturing IT decision-makers are predominantly concerned with malicious malware attacks (56%), followed by phishing attacks (49%) and unauthorized access by non-malicious insiders (45%).
Risk/Compliance
Third-Party Risk Management Program Delivers Risk Reduction Playbook
The Strategic Alignment Framework helps empower procurement, supply chain, sustainability, compliance, IT and other internal teams to ensure they develop, implement and measure their third-party risk management (TPRM) program.
Manufacturing
Building Supply Chain Strategy with Reshoring/Nearshoring
While often not the lowest cost option, relocating manufacturing may be the best overall option given the dire need for supply chain resiliency and stability.
Carbon Footprint
Climate Concerns Supercharge the Supply Chain
For supply chain leaders, increased climate risk, climate-driven activism and the flurry of new ESG regulations amid the Net Zero transition, adds complexity to an already-challenging supply chain operation.
Sustainability
Zeroing In on Sustainability Practices in the Supply Chain
Central to achieving net zero targets is accountability and transparency – this is what will be expected of providers as the impacts of global and local legislation come into full effect.
Carbon Footprint
Leveraging Resale and Wholesale Marketplaces to be More Sustainable Retailers
By embracing the circular economy, retailers can make the most of their returns and excess inventory, increasing their profitability and brand value.
Safety & Security
Preparedness Remains Key to Unlocking Growth Potential in Uncertain Times
Every individual, and every machine, knows its role day in and day out regardless of obstacles in the supply chain. Your company should be ready to immediately act against adversity rather than figuring out how to respond when it arrives.
Sourcing & Procurement
How Nearshoring Accelerates Resilience Through Digital Transformation
This is a pivotal time to re-imagine how we manufacture by embracing Industry 4.0 and digital technologies to become more agile and resilient.
Safety & Security
The Growing Problem of Disposable Products in Supply Chains
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the high demand for PPE to be produced quickly generated supply and manufacturing disruptions, as well as leaving a potentially dramatic impact on our economy and our environment.
Transportation
Building a Reliable Supply Chain in the Automotive Industry
The strength of the automotive industry’s global supply chains has been tested in ways that we could only ever have dreamed. Now, it's created new ways for automotive supply chains to transform.
Trucking
Inflation Sees Rise in Fuel Theft
Of the increases in various types of commodities stolen, TAPA EMEA identified a significant year-on-year rise in the number of fuel thefts recorded in the region, one of the most prominent trends recorded.
Professional Development
Clarity Through Consequences for Service Level Agreements
Ideally, SLAs should include rewards and incentives for meeting expectations, but even more importantly, they should clearly specify the consequences that the supplier will face if the terms of the SLA are not met.
Risk/Compliance
The Unmeasurable Risks in Logistics
What’s the biggest risk facing your business? If you answered inflation, pandemic or war then go to the back of the class, because according to one Forbes contributor: CEOs should really be losing sleep about their failure to adopt a 4 day work week.
Software Solutions
Siemens Creates Intralogistics Segment
This new group will operate both as a vertical industry group and a horizontal business operation to address the market needs for digital transformation, cybersecurity, safety and sustainability.
Worker Safety
Safe Forklift Operations with the Help of Propane
With deadlines looming and a dizzying pace of work, it’s easy to see why safety considerations for the various energy sources that power warehouses can be forgotten yet safety is still important in preventing accidents.
Software Solutions
Environmental Sensors Increase Supply Chain Visibility in Food, Pharmaceuticals
Using these sensors, into a range of environmental factors, including temperature monitoring and moisture detection, allows users to take corrective action in real time and maximize their productivity with a more efficient data logger.
COLD CHAIN
Access to End-to-End Holistic Healthcare
These cold chains now extend to a variety of industries and economies. Supply chain networks in the healthcare industry are reaching previously unseen scales and continue to grow.
Regulations
2022 Experienced Record-Breaking Year for Food, Automotive Recalls
2022 was a record-breaking year for the number of units recalled, reaching nearly 1.5 billion. With regulatory scrutiny continuing to increase, 2023 may shape up to be another 1 billion unit year.
Packaging
Companies Share Concern Over Lack of EPR Preparedness
The latest extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations are still on track to be delivered in 2024, yet many in the industry feel very unprepared.
Automation
How Due Diligence and Supplier Relationship Management Work Together
If your company participates in global trade, you should be concerned about human rights abuses up and down your supply chain. Not only because of governmental mandates and customer opinion, but simply because it’s the right thing to do.
