Which portion of an e-commerce delivery has the bigger impact on carbon emissions — the first mile, or the last?

Because e-commerce sales show no signs of slowing down, retailers must find a better way to balance shipping surcharges and overage costs.

Andre Pharand, global management consulting lead for postal and parcel industry with Accenture, reveals the findings of the firm’s new study on creating the sustainable last mile for e-commerce deliveries.

President Biden far surpassed his original goal of administering 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines within his first 100 days in office, but the  initiative couldn’t have succeeded without a substantial manufacturing and logistics infrastructure backing it up.

Thanks to the pandemic and heavy customer demand, parcel shipping is currently mired in “chaos.”

The connection between fleet managers and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is more important than many people realize.

By better managing the dynamic interaction among the three main players within the supply chain — logistics, suppliers, and buyers — sellers can save money for customers and lessen the environmental impact of the supply-chain industry.

Rob Handfield, Bank of America Professor of Supply Chain Management with the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University, discusses the reasons behind the current worldwide shortage of ocean containers, and what carriers and manufacturers must do to solve it.