sustainable supply chains

Check Call: Sustainability takes a seat at the table

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For those looking to get some federal supply chain contracts, sustainability measures will start to matter. The Biden administration has a new proposal, the Sustainable Products and Services...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-sustainability-takes-a-seat-at-the-table

Check Call with John Rattay: A sustainable balance

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, John Rattay, chief commercial officer at Redwood Logistics, joins host Mary O’Connell to dive into why shippers aren’t getting what they want from their logistics service providers in terms of environmental, social and governance initiatives.. 

Key quotes from Rattay:

“Establishing a sustainability program of any kind is difficult. It requires significant investments to set it up and successfully deliver over time. When you add the complexity and network...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-with-john-rattay-a-sustainable-balance

HowGood raises $12.5M for food sustainability platform

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Sustainability ingredient database HowGood has secured $12.5 million in a funding round to expand in the United States and Europe and build out its platform.

Titan Grove led the funding round announced Wednesday with participation from FirstMark and other existing investors.

Brooklyn, New York-based HowGood started with a platform based on R&D to find more sustainable suppliers and practices specifically for new consumer packaged goods and food products. It then added capabilities to track...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/howgood-raises-125m-for-food-sustainability-platform

Cartonization company Paccurate closes $2.2M funding round

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Shipping and fulfillment optimization platform Paccurate announced Tuesday it closed a $2.2 million seed funding round to advance its capabilities to reduce costs and carbon emissions in supply chains.

Almost every online shopper has gone to his or her door and found a box an air fryer could fit into when what was ordered was the size of a phone case. Larger than necessary boxes require excess packing materials and take up more space in delivery vehicles and consumers’ recycling bins.

Paccurate...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cartonization-company-paccurate-closes-22m-funding-round

Net-Zero Carbon recap: How to build and execute sustainability strategy

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit.

TOPIC: How to build and execute a sustainability strategy within your organization

DETAILS: Building a successful sustainability program must incorporate business continuity planning and preparing for outcomes from disruption. A look at the methods behind setting and achieving sustainability goals and the importance of stakeholder engagement when building out sustainability programs.

SPEAKERS: Ray Fennelly, chief information...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/net-zero-carbon-recap-how-to-build-and-execute-sustainability-strategy

HowGood adds procurement module to sustainability database

HowGood added a procurement module to its sustainability platform.

HowGood, touted as “the world’s largest product and ingredient sustainability database,” added a procurement module to its Latis sustainability intelligence platform on Thursday.

The Brooklyn, New York-based company started with a platform based on R&D to find more sustainable suppliers or practices specifically for new consumer packaged goods (CPG) and food products. 

The procurement module will help connect the dots between the sustainability metrics for ingredients and how that information...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/howgood-adds-procurement-module-to-sustainability-database

GSCW chat: Big data, IoT enable sustainability efforts

Experts chat about how data and IoT impact sustainable decision-making.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 5 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) enable sustainability efforts. 

DETAILS: Tyler Cole, director of carbon intelligence at FreightWaves, is joined by Daniel MacGregor to discuss the value of data-driven decision-making in supply chains. They examine how integrating hardware and software solutions can improve transparency, minimize risk and reduce both waste and emissions in freight...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gscw-chat-big-data-iot-enable-sustainability-efforts

Designing low-carbon supply chains — Net-Zero Carbon

This episode of Net-Zero Carbon dives into low carbon supply chains.

On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Tyler Cole, director of carbon intelligence at FreightWaves, chats with Ryan Purcell, senior director of supply chain, global health and development at Coupa Software, about designing low-carbon supply chains.

Purcell said Coupa aims to help companies transform climate goals into actions. Coupa is also helping companies understand their scope 3 emissions, or emissions that occur along their supply chains and after their products are sold to customers.

Broaden...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/designing-low-carbon-supply-chains-net-zero-carbon

Putting supply chain sustainability into action — Net-Zero Carbon

This Net-Zero Carbon episode dives into sustainable supply chains.

On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Tyler Cole, director of carbon intelligence at FreightWaves, chats with Zsofia Agnes Nagy, supply chain adviser at BZLW Consulting, about how to turn sustainability goals into action along supply chains.

Nagy consults mostly small and medium-size enterprises on making their supply chains more sustainable. Sometimes “it’s a struggle,” she said.

Some people at older companies are skeptical about sustainability and see it as a passing trend, whereas younger...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/putting-supply-chain-sustainability-into-action-net-zero-carbon

Fashion supply chains could be going green

There is a proposed bill to improve fashion supply chain sustainability in the state of New York.

Fast fashion is a term bandied about to describe fashion items that are made fast, changed fast, delivered fast and disposed of fast to maximize profits and encourage people to buy new things quickly.

The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act proposed in the state of New York could address some of the sustainability issues that go along with fast fashion and fashion retailers in general.

Any fashion retailer or manufacturer that does business in the state of New York and has annual...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fashion-supply-chains-could-be-going-green

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