Remove Iowa Remove Procurement Solutions Remove Transportation
article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (March 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Dublin-based Evocco lets you track, improve, and offset the climate impact of your food purchases based on your receipt. The trial’s goal is to see if the delivery drones will be able to speed up patient response and sample turnaround times while also transporting blood transfusions in a shorter amount of time.

article thumbnail

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

Logistics Viewpoints

The company is using Blue Yonder for transportation management, Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru for network design, and FourKites ( see the webinar ) for transportation visibility in certain regions or departments to help with this. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased energy.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Mitigate and Manage Supply Chain Disruptions in Life Sciences

QAD

P harmaceuticals and biologic products, which have highly specific handling requirements such as maintaining temperature and humidity to avoid product spoilage, have the added burden of ensuring maintenance of these conditions throughout modified routes which may have longer delivery times and even higher transport costs.

article thumbnail

The Rise of Women in Supply Chain: Career Choice

SCMDOJO

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.

article thumbnail

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

Material Handling & Logistics

As it turns out, the solution to this growing problem may lie in our own refrigerators. For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain is an essential tool that can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

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.”. With Moscow’s war raging in Ukraine, exporters and logistics firms transporting auto parts, cars, laptops, and smartphones are now looking to avoid land routes passing through Russia or the combat zone.

article thumbnail

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.