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Four Reasons Data Builds a Circular Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

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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How to Streamline Your Dispatching Processes

IT Supply Chain

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Embracing the Circular Economy: Eliminating the Idea of Waste in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Traditional linear models of production and consumption, characterized by "take-make-dispose" processes, have led to significant environmental degradation and resource depletion.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending May 3, 2024

Supply Chain Digest

See who was up and Who was Down

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Supply Chain’s Role in Reducing Scope 3 Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Preventing Forced Labor in Supply Chains Is Crucial to Resilience and Sustainable Growth

Supply Chain Brain

The largest multinational companies across multiple sectors are demonstrating a lack of real progress in addressing forced labor in supply chains.

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Driving Strategic Value: Building a More Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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How Pallet Makers Contribute to a More Socially Conscious Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Meeting Customer Demand and ESG Targets with One Strategy: Nearshoring

Supply Chain Brain

Nearshoring satisfies customer demand, contributes to ESG goals, and creates a foundation for supply chain resiliency.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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ESG and the Challenges for Supply Chain Compliance

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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On the Decarbonization Journey: A Strategic Approach to Supply Chain Sustainability

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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To Achieve Supply Chain Sustainability, Complex Manufacturers Have a Long Road Ahead

Supply Chain Brain

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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Four Ways AI Can Help Reduce Waste in Your Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Supply Chains Know No Borders When It Comes to New Climate Disclosure Regulations

Supply Chain Brain

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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From Commitment to Action: How Innovative Packaging Solutions Bring Supply Chain Circularity

Supply Chain Brain

To ensure the success of sustainable supply chain transformation, companies must back their plans with real-life data.

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How to Conquer Scope 3 Emissions and Steer to a Sustainable Future

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chains need to take four key steps to become transparent and accountable for their carbon emissions.

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AI’s Supply Chains Sustainability Benefits May Be Countered by Energy Consumption

Supply Chain Brain

The environmental benefits of deploying AI may be overridden by the energy needed to power the technology.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Six Steps on the Journey to Environmentally Compliant Warehouses

Supply Chain Brain

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

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Revolutionizing Sustainability: The Technological Evolution in Manufacturing

Supply Chain Brain

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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ESG Compliance: It’s a Problem of Scope

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Removing Trucks from the Road to Cut Carbon Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

Load optimization software streamlines the transportation planning process, enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and minimizes environmental impact.

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Houthis Threaten to Attack Ships in Mediterranean Sea

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Environmental Considerations Beyond Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Five Steps to More Sustainable Operations Through Digitization

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Returns and Sustainability: A Report

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Greek Naval Drills See Oil Tankers Depart Key Transfer Area

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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Sustainability and Profitability — Two Sides of the Same Coin

Supply Chain Brain

Sustainability shouldn’t be isolated from business growth. Shippers, customers, carriers and investors can simultaneously reduce environmental impact while advancing their economic interests.