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A 5-Point Action Plan to Build an Environmentally Friendly Supply Chain for Your Business in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

There is no doubt that customers value convenience over sustainability, which is why same-day shipping remains a popular delivery option along with the increasing rate of returns in ecommerce. Smart manufacturing means a demand-driven supply chain model that involves using facts and metrics to guide decision-making.

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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Retail TouchPoints

With issues in ports arising from COVID-19, some retailers switched from sea to air to secure supply of product from manufacturing hubs such as China or India. Shipping companies can obtain information through GPS tags to help locate containers and ships in real time. Preventing, Reducing and Managing Returns.

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Key Strategies for Retailers to Push Sustainability Efforts

Independent Retailer

Over in the UK, Tesco has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2035, and since 2015, the retailer has managed to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 52 percent. In 2021, UK retailer Iceland announced that it planned to become carbon neutral by the end of 2022. However, sustainability does not always work out as expected.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

Matt: [2:02] Yeah have you too I like to think about my career or having two careers to date the first one was, very foundational for what I’m doing now but very quantitative, process-oriented mechanical engineering patent law Manufacturing, Ops Consulting things that had nothing to do with retail or fashion or e-commerce and then I. [2:32]