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RCP launches new sustainability vision and roadmap

Logistics Business Magazine

Pressured by their customers and staff into being demonstrably ‘green’, without transparency and clear definitions of ‘green’, confusion about which practices are actually sustainable can frustrate businesses and consumers alike. As of 2019, 59% of businesses claimed to have internal sustainability initiatives in place.

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Driving value into the supply chain

Automotive Logistics

When we run an operation that is lean and have a disruption on that supply chain, either you have the IT tools to manage it so you can quickly react or the result is a line stoppage.”. Monteiro said the problem was solved only because of the agility of the people working in VW’s supply chain and the IT tools at its disposal.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

Saint-Gobain also has a goal for organic growth of 3 – 5% through 2025. The 2030 roadmap is targeting a reduction in CO2 emissions of 33% for scopes 1 and 2, and of 16% for scope 3, versus 2017 ( definition for scopes 1, 2, and 3 ). The Coupa tool provides a much more efficient way to conduct cost saving/sustainability studies.

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Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

247 Customs Broker

In remarks made in May 2017, Governor Ambode explained his understanding of the concept this way: “In the emerging knowledge era, ICT has taken centre stage, and as the city of the future, Lagos must take advantage and indeed leverage on the tools of ICT in moving towards a Smart City.”. Smart does not mean elite.

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Battling a perfect storm

Automotive Logistics

The port of Long Beach has since adopted it and the tool is available to other ports, according to Nagle. We saw longer lead times that definitely impacted our customers.”. At the time it was assumed it was going to be 54.5mpg by 2025. At the time, they thought by 2025, two-thirds of the market would be passenger cars.