Archive for Sustainability
Last Thursday, in commemoration of Earth Day, Penske Logistics, Dr. Robert C. Lieb, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University, and Dr. Kristin J. Lieb, Assistant Professor of Marketing Communication, Emerson College, issued the “Third Party Logistics Sustainability Report.” The information is based on the 2008 and 2009 annual survey of forty 3PL CEOs conducted by Lieb and Lieb. The report contains a lot of interesting information, so… Continue reading
On Monday I thought it was Tuesday. Tuesday felt like Wednesday to me. I woke up on Wednesday convinced it was Thursday. And yesterday was not Friday, even though I was ready for the weekend.
It’s been that kind of a week for me. Now for the news:
- Con-way Multimodal Joins U.S. EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership
- Retail Container Traffic to be Up 8 Percent
I am in Rotterdam today attending the CSCMP Europe 2010 Conference. Yesterday’s keynote presentations by Christoph Overlack, Vice President, Supply Chain Europe at Nestle, and Gary Cassell, General Manager, Logistics EMEA at Cummings, were very informative. Deborah Lentz, Vice President Customer Service and Logistics, Kraft Foods Europe, is giving the keynote this morning, and this afternoon we’re taking a tour of the Rotterdam port.
I’ll share my takeaways… Continue reading
The logistics industry is obviously interested in what sorts of taxes might be applied to fuels that emit carbon dioxide (CO2). Whatever laws are enacted will depend partly on the public’s opinion on these issues. Recent surveys show somewhat contradictory reactions in the American public as to whether green house gases are causing global warming, and if so, what should be done about it.
A recent poll by the Yale… Continue reading
This Week in Logistics News (Feb 22-26 2010)
· CommentsI spent a few days this week at the SAP Insider Logistics and Supply Chain Management 2010 conference. I’ll share my takeaways from this event next week. In the meantime, here’s some of the news that caught our attention this week:
- RedPrairie to be acquired by New Mountain Capital
- Walmart Announces Goal to Eliminate 20 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Supply Chain
This Week in Logistics News (Feb 15-19)
· CommentsI’ve been on the road these past two weeks, so it’s been a bit difficult keeping up with everything that’s been going on. But here are a few items, from this week and last, that escaped my delete button:
- Transplace Provides Retailers Efficient Supply Chain Operations for Fixtures and Displays
- Retail Container Traffic to be Up 25 Percent First Half of 2010
Every once in a while it is interesting to conduct an internet search on the phrase “supply chain profits.” Here are two interesting stories from the fourth quarter of 2009 that I uncovered.
In a Wall Street Journal article by Ilan Brat and Anjali Cordiero published in September, supply chain initiatives were credited with helping General Mills raise its earnings forecast for its fiscal year and the… Continue reading
Based on the popularity of last week’s version, we’ve decided to make this “news roundup” the focus of our Friday postings. Here is some of the news that crossed our desks (actually, our computer screens, email inboxes, iPhone, etc.) and caught our attention this week:
