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North Face, Timberland Set Forest Policy, Extend Responsible Sourcing

March 14, 2017

VF Corporation, whose brands include The North Face, Timberland, Wrangler and Lee, released its first-ever Forest Derived Materials Policy, which sets purchasing guidelines and commits the company and its suppliers to using sustainable forest materials and products.

How to Anticipate Consumer Transparency Demands

March 10, 2017

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: Soaring consumer expectations and new legislation for GMO labeling and food safety modernization are driving a major transformation in the food and beverage industry, and rapidly creating a new industry normal. Supply-chain standards and new packaging innovations can help industry keep up with and even anticipate the demands of increasingly engaged consumers. – Angela Fernandez, VP of Retail Grocery and Foodservice, GS1 US

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The Most Valuable Resource - People - Is Declining Globally

March 10, 2017

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: The most important resource for the supply chain moving forward is people. However, the outlook is grim. The world's labor supply is shrinking, which has huge implications at a macro level on GDP and economic growth and at a business level in terms of available talent. The world labor supply hit an inflection point in 2012, when the proportion of nonworking age population "growth" became greater than the working age population. – John Johnson, senior content specialist, Gartner

Four Steps Procurement Professionals Can Take to Survive Automation

March 9, 2017

Supply Management

The BBC's head buyer is optimistic the procurement function won't be replaced by robots if it adapts to become a strategic part of the business.

China Softens Coal Focus in Bid to Clean Up Its Skies

March 9, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

China's government pledged to dramatically slow a coal-power building binge that is threatening its environment, saying it would shut down dozens of coal-power plants and stop some new construction.

Amazon Founder Plans Delivery for 'Future Human Settlement' of the Moon

March 9, 2017

Los Angeles Times

More than four decades after the last man walked on the lunar surface, several upstart space entrepreneurs are looking to capitalize on NASA's renewed interest in returning to the moon, offering a variety of proposals with the ultimate goal of establishing a lasting human presence there.

RFID Tracks Blood for Pediatric Transfusions

March 7, 2017

RFID Journal

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and BloodCenter of Wisconsin are piloting a high-frequency (HF) RFID system's use in monitoring a challenging product: blood stored and provided for pediatric patients.

After Brexit, Who Will Feed All These Chickens?

March 6, 2017

Bloomberg

Following a drive through English farmland, past thatched-roof cottages and thick forests, chicken farmer Mark Gorton stops his Land Rover on a narrow lane to speak to a worker in a white truck.

South Korea's LG Electronics to Build U.S. Factory in Tennessee

March 6, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

South Korean conglomerate LG Electronics Inc. said it is planning to build a new washing machine factory in Tennessee, its first major U.S. plant, and hire at least 600 workers by the end of 2019.

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Optimizing Digital Operations for 'Smart' Supply Chain

March 6, 2017

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: Variously called Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet, or simply digitization, the emergence of machine-to-machine interactions, human-to-machine interactions, robust data and analytics capabilities, and cheaper, more ubiquitous sensors is pushing the Internet of Things (IoT) into the core operations of more and more companies. Among the business operations especially ripe for transformation by digital and IoT capabilities is the "smart" supply chain. – Eduardo Alvarez, Principal, PwC, and Rodger Howell, Principal, PwC