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Digital Platform Promotes Circular Economy of Recycled Plastics
The platform helps essential industries evolve to a more sustainable future by offering efficient online trading, accessible data and transparent economics.
Waste Reduction
Circular Economy Starts Local
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Consumer Interest in Sustainability Eases Delivery Demands
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Choosing A Greener Tomorrow
Waste Reduction
Supply Chain Blindspots Impede ESG Progress
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How To Create a Sustainable and Profitable Returns Process
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The Current State of Logistics
In two years, the logistics industry has transformed. Find out where the industry is at today and what shippers are doing to combat the constant disruption.
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Top Supply Chain Projects: How Project Management Keeps Supply Chains Afloat Despite Disruptions
Let's meet the winners of this year's Top Supply Chain Projects award.
Professional Development
Nominations for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Women in Supply Chain Award Extended to July 17
This award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.
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Sustainability Has Arrived in Supply Chain Management
The surveyed companies plan to almost double (+97%) the number of sustainable initiatives already implemented within the next few years.
Carbon Footprint
It’s Time to Integrate ESG into Your Sourcing Strategy
In an era when a business’s sustainability, ESG and sourcing activities are critical to employees, customers, regulators and investors alike, pursuing an integrated strategy could be a winning move.
E-Commerce Solutions
5 Significant Trends Shaping Supply Chain Operations in 2022 and Beyond
What makes these trends particularly notable is that they will continue to impact organizations across industries for the foreseeable future.
Sustainability
Top 5 Actions for a More Sustainable Business
Amid “the Great Resignation” and a volatile economic period, companies can’t afford to lose talent or customers. They must reinvent their business models to be both profitable and sustainable.
Carbon Footprint
Why You Need a Circular Supply Chain Plan
To meet demand, companies need to strategically balance their supply chain and build in circularity. Those that do not will be at a competitive disadvantage and risk falling short of industry or government compliance regulations.
Carbon Footprint
Consumers Willing to Pay More for Sustainable Shopping Options
Equally revealing was the discovery that nearly three-quarters of the consumer respondents value product sustainability over brand name.
Carbon Footprint
How a Supply Chain Control Tower Can Help Achieve Corporate ESG Goals
Deploying a supply chain control tower has proven to be an effective solution for achieving ESG goals. Here's why.
Carbon Footprint
Critical Supply Chain Implications for Net Zero Future
To navigate the path to net zero, oil and gas companies will have to define their strategic approach and become either resource specialists, integrated energy players or low-carbon players.
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L.I.N.K. | MIT Answers What is the Circular Economy
MIT's Sustainable Supply Chains Lab project manager Kellen Betts dives into the circular economy in the supply chain.
Sustainability
Sustainability Still Sells. Here's Why.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive editors discuss how a green supply chain is so much more than just recycling, eliminating paper or reducing waste.
Sustainability
Creating and Maintaining Green Supply Chains
Many companies are now exploring how their supply chains can improve, from how they select suppliers to how they monitor performance.
Carbon Footprint
Green Supply Chains Prevail Amid Global Disruptions
Winners of this year's Green Supply Chain award not only kept up green initiatives throughout a global pandemic and unprecedented disruptions, but also made them a priority.
Carbon Footprint
4 Lessons Learned in Achieving Carbon Neutrality
Achieving carbon neutrality is a marathon, not a sprint. Leaders who understand this will make decisions and build teams committed to adopting sustainable practices over the long term.
Sustainability
The Growing Importance of Sustainability in Supply Chains
The future for supply chain sustainability is bright, as long as it remains a top priority and continues to be improved upon by dedicated individuals and technological advancements.
Packaging
Packaging a Sustainable Future
Solutions include reusable packaging, in-store refill models and collaborative recycling efforts.
Waste Reduction
Supply Chain Waste Reduction Moves Forward Via New Partnership
Verusen and Machine Compare look to drive efficiency and reduce waste in the global machinery supply chain. The partnership taps Verusen's data and Machine Compare's B2B marketplace.
Carbon Footprint
Delays and Disasters: The Wake-Up Call to Addressing the Climate Crisis
To truly address the climate crisis, businesses and governments need to take responsibility and action today.
Sustainability
From the Warehouse Floor, Things Can Only Go Up
The growing shift to sustainable solutions across the supply chain industry has become not only a wonderful trend, but a way to think outside the box when it comes to efficient eco-friendly processes.
Packaging
5 Ways to Boost Sustainable Innovation in Packaging Operations
Here are some innovative technologies and approaches that promise to deliver sustainability gains and reinvent and evolve packaging operations.
Emerging Technologies
The Circular Economy: How Digitization Dents Industry’s Climate Impact
IoT, ERP and automation are the future of sustainable business, and are crucial tools in the targeting of waste and the slashing of consumption and harmful emissions.
Waste Reduction
Building a Circular Economy for the Next-Generation Supply Chain
It’s time for the disposable “take-make-waste” economy that humanity created to change, and implement a circular economy that works for everyone.
Green Supply Chain Awards
Nominations for Green Supply Chain Award Close Sunday, Oct. 3
Nominations for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Green Supply Chain award close Sunday, Oct. 3.
Waste Reduction
Circular Economy on the Rise of Corporate Agendas Worldwide
Companies are transitioning to focus more on process and product innovation, such as resource recovery and product life extension.
Waste Reduction
Using Environmental Sustainability Certification to Differentiate
Environmental sustainability certification helps companies differentiate themselves from their not-as-sustainable competitors.
Waste Reduction
Procurement Executives are Now Prioritizing Sustainability
The research found that delivering on corporate sustainability goals has become a top priority, with 63% of respondents saying its very important, compared to just 25% only two years ago.
Sustainability
SDCE and Blue Yonder Discuss the Importance of Sustainability in the Global Supply Chain
SDCE and Blue Yonder talk supply chain sustainability practices and how companies globally are viewing them.
Warehousing
What Amazon's Latest Scandal Shows for the Warehousing Sector
Reporters posing as employees expose Amazon for destroying unsold merchandise. But unfortunately, this is not a new practice in warehousing and retail.
Waste Reduction
Managing Pallet Chaos in a Post-Pandemic World
Coming to terms with the core crisis requires adaptation and simultaneously manifests pallet transformation opportunities.
Manufacturing
Future-Proofing the PPE Supply Chain
Now is the time to future-proof the PPE supply, support small U.S. businesses, lower costs of the stockpile and reduce the environmental footprint, all while providing superior protection for essential workers.
Packaging
Carbon Neutral Shipping Grows in Small Business E-Commerce
Carbon neutral shipping provider Sendle completes its Series C funding with $35 million.