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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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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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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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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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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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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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Decarbonizing Transportation Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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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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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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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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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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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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Brace for Impact. Unpredictable Tariff Disruptions Are Here––Your Playbook

Tariffs will have a major impact on your supply chain, margins, and operations. Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.

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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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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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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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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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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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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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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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Lowering Carbon Emissions with a Single Point of View of Transportation Operations

Supply Chain Brain

Today’s transportation methods rely heavily on fossil fuels. As environmental concerns rise and consumer demands for sustainability grow, companies must adapt.

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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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GEP Outlook Report 2025

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

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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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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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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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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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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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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.