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Five Steps to Ensuring Supply Chain Solutions Implementation Success

Success in supply chain planning and operations solutions relies upon the ability to identify and document desired value measures and outcomes, and to align those with the solutions provider.

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NJ Senators Award $400,000 to Manufacturing Extension Program

The grant will allow the NJEMP to provide technical assistance and optimization improvements to small- and mid-sized manufacturers across the state.

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FedEx and ALPA Reach Tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement

The agreement prevents a possible strike after 99% of FedEx Express pilots voted in favor of union leaders authorizing a strike May 17.

Oshkosh, WI, USA - July 30, 2014 FedEx Express Airbus A300-600F airplane on the ramp at the Oshkosh Airport from Madison. Photo: iStock.com/vandervliet93

Climate Change Threatens a World Without Doritos

Climate change is causing supply chain disruptions for several of the commodities that are used to make Doritos: corn, salt, sunflower oil and dairy.

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FMCSA Launches Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign

"Your Roads, Their Freedom” will provide the United States’ 8.7 million commercial motor vehicle drivers with the information needed to identify and report suspected human trafficking.

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Saudi Arabia and U.K. Ink Critical Minerals Supply Chain Deal

The deal will improve the supply chain resilience of minerals like copper, lithium, cobalt and rare Earth elements, which are vital to producing electric vehicles and solar panels.

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Oceanworks Launches Plastic Action Dashboard

The Plastics Action Dashboard will help organizations decrease their plastic usage rates while simultaneously improving their use of recycled materials.

Across the globe, less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled, according to the most recent data from 2018 published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Photo: iStock.com/Yevhen Smyk

More Efficient Payments Means More Efficient Supply Chains

Digital transformation is taking place in the B2B payments industry, a move that can contribute significantly to improved supply chain efficiency.

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U.K. Farming and Trucking Most Exposed to Rise in Retiring Workers

More than half of the U.K.’s farmers are aged 55 and older while half of Britain's truck drivers are older than 50.

A farmer drives a tractor through an apple orchard on a farm in Faversham, UK, on Oct. 18, 2022. Photo: Bloomberg

Indonesia Considers Limits on LNG Exports in New Trade Curbs

New LNG export contracts or renewals of existing agreements could be prohibited to prioritize the needs of domestic consumers, according to Coordinating Investment and Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan.

The LNG Aquarius liquefied natural gas tanker at Java Sea offshore in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The world is facing an energy crisis, with demand rebounding as economies reopen after the pandemic. Photo: Bloomberg/Dimas Ardian

Whizz Giving Away Bicycle Helmets to New York Delivery Drivers

As part of the company's Ride Safe initiative, Whizz will give away 100 free bicycle helmets each month to New York City-based delivery workers.

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Brazil Banks to Deny Credit to Meatpackers Linked to Amazon Destruction

The sustainability standard requires slaughterhouses to adopt a tracking system to monitor their entire supply chain in the Amazon region and Maranhao by December 2025.

A view of stumps in a recently deforested natural forest located in the concession of PT RAPP (Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper), a subsidiary of APRIL group which is being developed for a pulp and paper plantation at Pulau Padang, Kepulauan Meranti district on July 11, 2014. Photo: Bloomberg/Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

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