Companies keep supply chain sustainability commitments, pandemic or not
July 15, 2021
Eighty-two percent of executives surveyed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation and Logistics and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals said their companies’ commitments to supply chain sustainability were not lessened as as a result of challenges created by the novel coronavirus pandemic over the past year-plus.
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