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Green Purchasing within Supply Chain Management: Finding and Choosing Green Vendors
Green purchasing within supply chain management has become a top priority for many businesses and affects which vendors a business chooses as partners. Today, being a green company means working only–or primarily–with companies who also follow eco-friendly guidelines. Yet it can be difficult to thoroughly vet a third party’s green practices. We’ll talk about some…
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How Green Is Your Supply Chain?
Going green is a priority for many supply chain managers today, but not every effort is successful. In fact, efforts to “go green” often involve strategies whose impacts are difficult to measure. A crucial part of any environmental initiative is being able to evaluate how green your supply chain is in an actionable way. While…
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3 Benefits of an Ethical Supply Chain
ARTICLE UPDATED ON MARCH 29, 2024 Ethical supply chains have gone mainstream, with fair trade products now commonplace and consumers from all age groups willing to pay more for ethical goods. This shift is particularly notable among younger generations. While building an ethical supply chain can be costly, it’s a worthwhile investment that delivers multiple…
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Green Supply Chain Challenges: Practical Ways to Avoid Pitfalls
Eco-friendly business practices are a major topic of discussion right now. Twenty-one percent of businesses globally believe that sustainability is crucial to their long-term existence. But moving toward more sustainable practices isn’t simple or easy, and there are some green supply chain challenges your company should be prepared to face before you start on this…
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How Automated Cold Chain Logistics Technology Reduces Critical Failures
The cost of a cold chain failure can be extensive. Massive product losses inevitably cut into a company’s bottom line and waste valuable resources. And that isn’t the only cost of a breach in the cold chain. In some cases, a cold chain issue has the potential to affect public health, as when sensitive vaccines…
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How to Build an Environmentally Friendly Logistics Strategy
Most major supply chains today are seeking to make their practices more environmentally responsible. From UPS’ use of alternative, energy-efficient vehicles to Amazon’s installation of solar panels on the rooftops of fulfillment centers, all of these efforts help to reduce the impact the big companies have on the environment. Environmentally friendly logistics strategies like these…
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Is an Ethical Supply Chain Worth the Cost?
Questions of morality and ethics are always difficult. In fact, answering these questions often comes at a steep cost, personally or professionally. In business, this cost is literal; the answer to the question of how to build an ethical supply chain is usually to pay more. Labor welfare, for instance, is one of the biggest…
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How to Streamline Your Pallet Inspection Procedure
ARTICLE UPDATED DECEMBER 20, 2023 Pallets are an essential component of virtually every warehouse delivery, making it a rarity to find a shipment that doesn’t utilize them. Even less common is the sight of goods leaving a facility without being securely palletized. The consistent flow of pallets, from intake to throughput, is a universal presence…