Walmart Targeting Sustainable Suppliers

Walmart Targeting Sustainable Suppliers

March 12, 2013

Walmart is elevating its green goals by targeting sustainable suppliers, like food company Annie’s Homegrown, Inc. To read more, click HERE.

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Partner Roundtable: Procurement Trends

August 18, 2022

Discover how to plan for demand, overcome shortages, modernize payment structure and achieve resiliency for the future of the supply chain.

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Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Award: E-Commerce Boom Calls for Rise in Outsourcing of Services

This year’s winners are in position to answer the call for that increased demand in outsourcing of services.

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Nominations Open for Annual Top Software & Technology Providers Award

This award honors software and technology providers that ensure a safe, efficient and reliable global cold food and beverage supply chain.

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Santander, SAP Partner To Optimize Corporate Banking in Supply Chains

Santander CIB and SAP make an agreement to develop solutions to help companies navigate supply chain disruptions from a financial standpoint.

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How Food Waste Reduction Helps Restaurants Fight Inflation

Inflation isn’t stopping anytime soon. Fortunately there are new advances in technology that make food waste preventable and create stronger companies in the process.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Focus Areas Continue to Shift

While supply chain sustainability may enjoy more support as a corporate goal, its growing popularity does not necessarily translate into investment dollars.

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Get Smart About Food Waste and Losses

A data-driven approach powered by connected intelligence to streamline transportation and logistics processes will be a key to helping all stakeholders in the supply chain ecosystem maintain food safety and supply chain integrity.

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Grain Laundering Arises As Possible New Supply Chain Threat

New research from Windward reveals an increase of 160% in dark activity from bulk carriers in the Black Sea and the possibility of Russian grain laundering.

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Renewable Diesel Results in 3xs Larger Cumulative GHG Reductions vs. Electrification

As for nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions, EVs have 98.5% lower NOx than pre-2007 diesel vehicles on a per mile basis, and 2010 and later MY vehicles have 79% less NOx emissions than a 2007 diesel model.

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IoT Sensors: Promoting Food Industry Efficiency

Connected sensors can help companies cost effectively track and determine asset quality in the supply chain to optimize purchasing, ensuring that consumers have access to safe, high-quality food.

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The Russia-Ukraine War’s Impact on Global Food Supply Chain

There are many elements outside of the price of commodities itself that can be leveraged to create benefits and counteract the impact of the latest crises.

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High Fuel Surcharges, Seasonal Peaks to Increase Transportation Costs in Q3

Fuel accounts for 20.7% of the total cost-per-pound for LTL shipments through June 2022, up from 13.4% in 2021, a 47.3% increase.

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Achieving Zero Emissions in Agricultural Equipment

Although agricultural off-road equipment accounts for only a small percentage of the harmful emissions created by the industry overall, reduction of GHG emissions wherever possible can only help to reduce air pollution and climate change effects.

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Farmers Business Network Cultivates Self-Implementation WMS

Farmers Business Network selected SnapFulfl's warehouse management system to scale across its distribution centers.

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Less Than Half of Chief Supply Chain Officers Conduct Climate Change Risk Assessment

The top barriers to planning for climate change in the supply chain include a focus on short-term decision making (57%) and an inability to link the cause and investment to benefits (57%).

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California’s Ban of Propane, Diesel Forklifts Makes for Faster Shift to Electric

Starting in 2026, fleets may not purchase large spark-ignition forklifts and will need to retire existing LSI forklifts that are 13 years old or older. Here’s what these new regulations mean, and how they’ll affect different fleet types.

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76% of Commercial Trucks Run on Diesel

Other fuels that play a role in commercial trucking include gasoline (23%) and compressed natural gas (0.4%). Electric and other categories each register less than 1%.

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The Evolving State of the U.S. Food and Beverage M&A Market

While interest in food and beverage M&A remains strong among buyers, valuations are likely to decline through the rest of this year. Here's why.

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Reducing Waste in Food Supply Chains

Necessity drives innovation, so now is the time for companies to rethink supply chain operations, particularly when technology is reaching a maturity that allows mass adoption.

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E-Commerce Pushes Changes in CPG Packaging

In the past, food was never thought of as something to buy online. But now, everything is different which means packaging needs to adapt.

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Reusable Transport Item Solution for Farm-to-Store Supply Chains

The IoT Pixels built into the RTI solution’s plastic crate are self-powered, postage stamp-sized computers that communicate wirelessly and can sense a range of physical and environment conditions, such as temperature, location change and more.

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McDonald's Shareholders Push for New Plan on Plastic Packaging

A little under half of McDonald's shareholders pledged support for a filing by non-profit shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. A proposed resolution from the group lists actions specific to the fast food retailer that can help reduce its pollution.

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Biden Administration Announces 46 Railroad Projects, Totaling $368 million

Investment into our nation's rail system is top priority for the current White House. Today, more than $368 million in grant funds were revealed to improve on much needed rail infrastructure in 32 states.

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Biden-Harris Executive Order to Strengthen Food Supply Chains

The Executive Order will also promote fair and competitive agricultural markets, prevent abuse of farmers by poultry processors and make prices fairer for farmers and American consumers.

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Smart Energy Management: A Recipe to Improve Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in the Food & Beverage Industry

To reduce energy waste and maximize production performance, leading companies are flocking to new technologies to capture key energy and production data.

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What Characteristics Helped Companies Fare Better During Disruption?

Rapid Ratings International's Eric Evan explains that risk aware, proactive and the ability to react fast are qualities that can help a business better sustain problems in the supply chahin.

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Welcoming New Era of Power Management -- Time to Fix Forklift Power

Forklift power is the No. 1 limitation in most facilities right now. It is a business killer. It’s an unseen and rarely contemplated problem. Most companies either throw more batteries at the problem, or are choosing new technologies to solve it.