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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2020

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This promises to be a very eventful year. Pepsi announced that they are aiming to cut 20% of their emissions by 2030 and their U.S. Microsoft also announced they plan to be carbon-negative by 2030. . 2020 seemed a world away just a few years ago and yet, here we are. Here are three trends to consider. .

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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2020

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This promises to be a very eventful year. Pepsi announced that they are aiming to cut 20% of their emissions by 2030 and their U.S. Microsoft also announced they plan to be carbon-negative by 2030. . 2020 seemed a world away just a few years ago and yet, here we are. Here are three supply chain trends to consider. .

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The “Race” to Win the Autonomous Truck Market

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TORC and Daimler Truck held an event for journalists last week at a TORC facility in Albuquerque. The event provided their perspective on these questions. Autonomous trucks, of course, don’t stop to rest. What kind of trucks will they be? When will we see autonomous trucks on the road? How fast will the rollout be?

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 27)

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The company announced that it is expanding its associate-to-driver program so that any Walmart worker at 439 store locations nationwide can become a truck driver after completing a 12-week course. Speaking of EVs, the global auto industry has committed $1.2

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

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This of course was an April Fool’s Day intro referencing Terminator 2. The initiative supports Nestle’s plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, starting with the goal of sourcing 20 percent of ingredients from regenerative farmland by 2025 and 50 percent of ingredients from the same by 2030. Over the coming weeks, many of our U.S.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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And of course most can’t. Of course, consumer brand companies are especially at risk from being tarred with an anti-sustainability brush. Of course we all need to up our game. I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. Of course we all need to up our game. That sounds scary for sure, and if that was just the story it would surely cause social upheaval.