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C.H. Robinson Forms Logistics Division for Chemical Industry
C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. has formed a new division to offer logistics services to chemical manufacturers and distributors. Dubbed ChemSolutions, the unit can provide chemical bulk shipping, safety and sustainability, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, vendor and supplier compliance, global trade management and multimodal transportation.
Report Analyzes Total Sustainability Impacts, Market Outlook for Commercial Transportation Fuels
A report from BSR is designed to help large-scale fuel purchasers make viable decisions that lessen impacts to the environment and society and enhance economic growth and development.
Assessing and Balancing Trade-offs in Supply Chain Optimization
Optimizing supply chain operations to cost less and be more effective has long been a top priority for businesses. Now, companies must consider new sustainability measures such as carbon. Identifying, tracking and managing supply chain emissions is quickly becoming essential to optimization efforts, with the primary goal of detecting inefficiencies in fuel, electricity and water consumption and then correcting those inefficiencies to help eliminate waste and reduce costs. But improving one benchmark in an optimization effort may adversely impact another. It's rare that everything aligns perfectly.
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Campaign Builds Steam to Keep Wind Protection Tax Credit
Starbucks, Johnson + Johnson, Sprint and 16 other companies have sent a letter to Congress, urging elected officials to extend the wind production tax credit (PTC) before it expires at the end of 2012.
Could Rising U.S. Exports and Reshoring Help Create Up to 5 Million Jobs by 2020?
Manufactured exports - a bright spot of the U.S. economy in recent years - are set to surge. Combined with jobs created as a result of reshoring, higher U.S. exports could add 2.5 million to 5 million jobs by the end of the decade, as manufacturers shift production from leading European countries and Japan to take advantage of substantially lower costs in the U.S., according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group.
Manufacturers, Petroleum Interests Spar with California Board Over Greenhouse Gas Credits Auction
Corporate executives and workers from dozens of refineries, glass-makers and other business groups bombarded members of the California Air Resources Board with complaints about an upcoming auction of credits allowing them to release greenhouse gases.
Chemical Manufacturer Turns Fragmented Enterprise into Global Success Story
Challenge: The client's European operations location-by-location logistics was diminishing cost-savings and overall performance. Management developed four objectives: to obtain transportation cost-savings, to provide a supplier base for growth, to improve data capture for financial analysis, and to upgrade transparency and on-time delivery. The client turned to the experts at Odyssey Logistics & Technology (OL&T).
Delivering solutions that energize business
Challenge: Headquartered in Spain, our client is a global leader in the design, manufacture, distribution, and installation of products and services for renewable energy technology. When they needed a centralized fulfillment center and management system to optimize service and parts replacement in the Midwest, they called on Pilot's proven logistics expertise.
How Business Should Respond to SEC's Rule on Conflict Minerals
No one appears completely happy with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule on tracking the presence of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in high-tech and other types of products. Comments on SEC's action range from outright opposition to quibbling over details.
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Eight Leading Companies to Compete for Supply Chain Innovation Award at Annual CSCMP Conference
Eight corporate teams that demonstrated how their supply chain practices reduced costs, streamlined processes, saved energy, and improved operating efficiencies are finalists in the eighth annual Supply Chain Innovation Award competition presented by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and SupplyChainBrain.
Jeeves Information Systems Opens North American Headquarters in Chicago
Jeeves Information Systems AB, a developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for small and medium-sized businesses, has established a new headquarters for its North American operations in Chicago.
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