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SUSTAINABILITY, SUPPLY CHAIN, TRANSPORTATION

prnewswire | May 22, 2023

Electrolux Group, a global leader in home appliances, has announced a new partnership with Freightos the leading global freight booking platform, to improve its freight booking process across its forwarders and carriers. The partnership follows a successful proof of concept addressing efficiencies in cost estimation, booking, and end to end tracking and air freight visibility. In a volatile international shipping ecosystem, pricing transparency, rapid capacity procurement an...

Total Quality | April 16, 2020

Total Quality Logistics, the nation’s second largest freight brokerage firm, announced today the expansion of its “Moves that Matter” program, which covers the cost to move qualified products donated by a customer to benefit nonprofit and other organizations around the country. As the threat of COVID-19 continues, the U.S. government has designated the transportation and logistics industry as essential, and TQL is committed to keeping the supply chain moving to help sustain Ame...

Walmart | September 16, 2020

Walmart is partnering with Schneider Electric to make renewable energy more accessible to suppliers. This move is part of the retailer's Project Gigaton effort to reduce it's supply chain emissions by one billion metric tons by 2030. The initiative with Schneider Electric's Energy & Sustainability Services, titled Gigaton PPA (power purchase agreements), seeks to educate suppliers on their renewable energy options and help them through conversion — a process Walmart's S...

Accenture | February 18, 2020

Accenture has today announced it has acquired Icon Integration, a privately held Australian technology consultancy that provides SAP digital supply chain solutions and services as well as specialised business intelligence (BI) solutions to clients across Australia and New Zealand. This acquisition will boost Accenture’s growing technology practice and number of SAP professionals in the region. Icon Integration works with some of the regions’ largest retail, consumer goods and governm...