A new low-cost, digital seal has been developed for the CORE (Consistently Optimised REsilient Secure Global Supply-Chains) European Research Project by Dutch software company Itude Mobile.

Consumer packaged goods giant Kimberly-Clark Corporation has diverted 95 percent of manufacturing waste from landfills and diverted more than 5,000 metric tons of post-consumer waste through partnership programs around the world, according to the company’s recently released sustainability report.

April Richardson, president of D.C. Sweet Potato Cake, drove more than 17 hours from her home base in Hyattsville, Md., with her sister singing karaoke songs along the way, to pitch her sweet potato cakes at Wal-Mart's recent open call event for American manufacturers in Bentonville, Ark.

Cin7, a cloud-based inventory management company, has integrated its product suite with the Wal-Mart Marketplace. The marketplace enables sellers to leverage the power of the world's largest retailer, with their items appearing on Walmart.com alongside those being sold by Wal-Mart and other marketplace sellers.

India's greatest tax reform - replacing an array of provincial duties with a nationwide goods and services tax - is transforming the logistics industry in a country where moving stuff around is notoriously difficult to do, executives say.

Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tons of good fish back into the ocean every year, according to new research.

Soon after arch-rival Amazon announced plans to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn, Wal-Mart is apparently ramping up its defense.