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.

Jonathan Havens and Kermit Nash, partners in the law firm of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, review the experience of the food and beverage industry in the pandemic, in the form of lessons learned and possible permanent changes to the supply chain.

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.”