From mmh.com: “Building an environmentally friendly distribution center isn’t as difficult or as costly as you might think. That’s according to Chris Joyce, manager of the new eastern region distribution center for the outdoor gear and clothing company REI. Joyce helped oversee the design and construction of the 525,000 square foot distribution center, which opened [...]
From vunet.com: “A higher volume of enquiries from both CFOs and CEOs, asking how to manage the threats posed to their businesses from issues like terrorism and political unrest, landed on Aon’s desks last year, the firm says. Miles Johnstone, Aon’s director of political risk, believes that as both those pressures worsen in most markets, [...]
From domain-b.com: “The Beluga Shipping-owned MS Beluga SkySails, the world’s first cargo vessel with an innovative towing kite system will sail from Hamburg-based SkySails, is being used for commercial transport for the first time.
It will carry the first part of a complete particleboard factory across the Atlantic from Bremen in Germany to Venezuela on [...]
From RFID Update: “Sam’s Club has told its suppliers to apply RFID tags to individual products by October 31, 2010. That is one of several new RFID requirements that Sam’s Club communicated to suppliers in a letter dated January 7, 2008. Other requirements include case-level tagging by October 31, 2009, pallet-level tagging by the end [...]
From SupplyChainStandard.com: ” Now there is a new tool available to help supply chain managers compare just how efficient their warehouse operations are. Working with the Institute for Materials Handling and Logistics Systems (IFL) of the University of Karlsruhe, McKinsey has developed the first comprehensive technique for performance measurement across all types of warehouse. The [...]
From wbcsd.org: “Survey finds green costs overestimated by 300% and a need to foster zero net energy construction. Key players in real estate and construction misjudge the costs and benefits of “green” buildings, creating a major barrier to more energy efficiency in the building sector, a new study by the World Business Council for Sustainable [...]
From CIO: “There’s no shortage of green initiatives growing from companies’ marketing departments. Yet while CEOs and marketing chiefs may be demanding greener operations, most supply chain execs don’t know where to begin. In a recent Forrester Research report, analyst Patrick Connaughton notes that “tightening regulatory pressure and pervasive media attention are moving supply chain [...]
From DC Velocity:” A lot of companies are jumping on the “green” bandwagon these days. JohnsonDiversey isn’t one of them. It’s not that the company isn’t environmentally conscious. It is. It’s just that the Sturtevant, Wis.-based manufacturer of cleaning and maintenance supplies established its eco-credentials long ago. Since its founding in 1886, the company (formerly [...]
