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What Is Sustainable Packaging?

FW Logsitcs

Sustainable packaging is a growing trend in the world of commerce. As more businesses and consumers become concerned about the environmental impact of packaging materials, there has been a shift toward finding alternative solutions. It includes features such as compostable packaging, recyclable materials, and reduced packaging content.

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What value-added warehousing services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

In addition to standard warehousing operations, your third-party logistics (3PL) provider may be able to handle additional value-added services. In this article, we’ll identify and define the most common value-added warehousing services that a 3PL provider may perform. The driver is early to a retailer appointment. retailers).

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Automation: Key to Sustainable Warehousing

Logistics Business Magazine

The way to sustainable warehousing is through automation, says Craig Whitehouse, Managing Director of Invar Group. We need sustainability in land use and water management, in transport capacity, in the reduction of waste in all its forms, in enabling the goods and packages we handle themselves to be more sustainable.

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Energy Transition in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime.

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AI’s Transformative Role in Warehousing

Logistics Business Magazine

Everybody is talking about Artificial Intelligence but what are its potential applications for warehousing and supply chain? The pace of development of AI is accelerating and we can already see some key areas in warehousing and logistics where it can be applied. A minor example is some work we recently did for Birlea.

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Greening the Supply Chain: Top Sustainable Warehousing and Distribution Practices

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Greening the Supply Chain: Top Sustainable Warehousing and Distribution Practices | Image source: Pexels Any firm needs logistics to make sure that products are delivered to clients successfully and efficiently. We’ll talk about sustainable logistics for warehousing and distribution in this article.

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

For example, could some areas of your warehouse be adapted via racking optimisation to store higher inventory volumes? Of course, the most challenging part of any benchmarking project is accessing other companies’ data against which to compare your warehousing performance. Could your enterprise benefit from such a solution?