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The Challenges of Environmental Logistics
Environmental logistics has moved from being a niche concern to a central issue in modern supply-chain management. Companies are under increasing pressure to deliver products efficiently while reducing emissions, minimizing waste, using resources responsibly, and responding to increasingly demanding environmental expectations. The contradiction is obvious. Logistics exists to move things. Moving things consumes resources. Products must be transported, stored, packaged, handled, returned, repaired, recycled, or eventually discarded. Every stage creates an environmental footprint, which means that making logistics genuinely sustainable requires much more than replacing conventional vehicles with electric alternatives. Environmental logistics is a systemic challenge. It involves transportation, warehousing, packaging, inventory management, procurement, product design, customer behavior, reverse flows,…
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5 Ideas You Should Steal From Logistics Companies
Each company is different, and the same is applicable to each sector and each region. However, this does not prevent logistics companies from giving very important examples that can be applied in any type of company, beyond the part dedicated to the supply chain and merchandise shipments. What are these lessons that we should learn -or “steal”- from logistics companies? How can we apply the lessons of the supply chain to other areas of the business world? Steal these five ideas from logistics companies 1.- Optimization and fluidity in processes A supply chain is a living thing that needs to move as smoothly as possible. This work includes having the…




