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SmartNation: 3D Printing May Put Global Supply Chains Out of Business

3D printing may put global supply chains out of business: report By Joe McKendrick | October 9, 2012, 7:06 PM PDT Will 3D printing make global supply chains unnecessary? That’s a real possibility, states a recent report from Transport Intelligence. 3D printing (or “additive manufacturing,” as it’s called in industrial circles) takes offshore manufacturing and …

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SmartPlanet: Conflict-Free Supply Chains – Tracing, Auditing, Certification – Solid Advance in True Cost Economics

The top firms that champion conflict-free supply chains Intel, HP, and Apple have received top marks for their efforts to eradicate conflict minerals from supply chains in a new report published by the Enough Project. The anti-genocide nonprofit organization’s report, dubbed “Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets” (.pdf), researched how leading technology developers and manufacturers …

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Journal: Green Supply Chain Management Requires Less Procrastination & More Innovation, Leading by Example

EXTRACT: The article, “Supply Chain Management and Sustainability: Procrastinating Integration in Mainstream Research” presents the results of a study conducted by several university researchers in The Netherlands. The researchers noted that “procrastination can be viewed as the result of several processes, determined not only by individual personality, but also by the following factors: – availability …

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Worth a Look: Earthster Ecological Supply Chain Innovations and Life-Cycle Evaluations (LCA)

This project, an initiative of New Earth, aims to give life cycle evaluation and publishing power to all companies, along with other ways to document and market their environmental and social performance. And it equally aims to enable buyers around the world to evaluate and identify the products and producers that meet their environmental and …

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