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Sustainability and Profitability: How Embedding Sustainability can Boost Business Performance

Retail TouchPoints

To meet Net Zero goals and comply with evolving regulations, companies must integrate sustainability across the value chain from raw materials to design, sales and marketing and supply chain management. Next, turn to skills such as sustainable procurement, supply chain management and stakeholder management.

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Amazon Adding Supply Chain Management Service for Sellers

Independent Retailer

As companies try to get tighter control over the flow of goods from factories to consumers, Amazon recently launched a supply-chain management service to its web services business. . Continued Supply Chain Disturbances. Related articles: Amazon to Increase Selling Fees in 2023.

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Purple Shares Ascend Following Coliseum Capital Management Acquisition Bid

Retail TouchPoints

Purple Innovation has confirmed that investment firm Coliseum Capital Management made an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire all outstanding capital stock of the digitally native mattress company for $4.35 19, 2022, up from $2.79 16, 2022 — an increase of nearly 39%. per share on Sept. when markets opened Sept.

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Purple Names Supply Chain Veteran as COO

Retail TouchPoints

Purple has appointed supply chain veteran Eric Haynor as its COO, effective June 6, 2022.

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Digitalization Can Help Mitigate Climate-Related Supply Chain Disruptions

Retail TouchPoints

From typhoons and flooding to earthquakes and wildfires, extreme weather has long caused supply chain bottlenecks across the globe, but experts have warned that these kinds of climate-related disruptions will only become more common in the years to come as coastal sea levels continue to rise and the effects of climate change grow more pronounced.

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REI Appoints First Chief Supply Chain Officer to Support Growth Initiatives

Retail TouchPoints

REI Co-op has named Sylvia Wilks to the newly created role of SVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer, effective May 23, 2022. Wilks will be responsible for the strategic leadership of REI’s global supply chain, working with other leaders across the organization to develop its network and support the company’s growth.

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Walmart Steps Up Ecommerce Investment With Cross-Border Commerce and NFT Projects

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce in February 2022. The team also will help Indian sellers meet standards for creating new international product lines and enhance their capabilities in packaging, marketing and supply chain management. The platform includes tools to help streamline operations and manage promotions and feedback.