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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

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Scope 1 emissions include direct emissions from the company’s owned and controlled sources. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased energy. Supplier relationships need to move from transactional deals to true sourcing partnerships with their most important suppliers. PepsiCo has farmers they directly source from.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 20 – 26)

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A lot of this effort comes down to more sustainable sourcing, which tends to make environmental-conscious consumers happy. Dublin-based Evocco lets you track, improve, and offset the climate impact of your food purchases based on your receipt. Starbucks to improve sustainable coffee sourcing.

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How to Mitigate and Manage Supply Chain Disruptions in Life Sciences

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This is compounded by the fact that many raw materials are sourced from a limited number of suppliers and regions. Beyond the well-documented API sourcing problems, shortages in excipients, packaging materials (including vials and syringes), and electronic components for medical devices also contribute to delays.

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The Rise of Women in Supply Chain: Career Choice

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Gender diversity in supply chain teams fosters collaboration, enhances decision-making processes, and leads to more effective solutions that resonate with diverse stakeholders. Creativity and Innovation: Supply chain management involves finding creative solutions to complex challenges. She holds a degree of MBA and MCIPS.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. As it turns out, the solution to this growing problem may lie in our own refrigerators. From the wholesale manufacturers in Iowa to the farmers in Bangladesh, change is coming.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

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And while the price he is paid for his grain will rise, too, “prices will reach a point where no one can afford to purchase them.”. The railroad serves the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and other states, according to a map on its investor website. I have no choice but to pay it to meet my target crop yields.”

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Are We Witnessing the Death of the Foreign Aid Supply Chain?

Enterra Insights

The foreign aid supply chain involved planning, procurement, storage, transport, and delivery of resources like food, medicine, and other essential items from donors to beneficiaries in developing countries, often in response to emergencies or for long-term development projects. .” first appeared on Enterra Solutions.