Lineage Logistics has committed $3 million to the Lineage Foundation for Good, which will focus on issues of hunger and food waste. The foundation "creates a real-time link to redirect for donation quality products from food producers and manufacturers that might otherwise go to waste," Lineage President and CEO Greg Lehmkuhl said.
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Long Beach, Calif., is trying to alleviate backlogs at its port by temporarily allowing containers to be stacked to four or five levels, instead of the usual two. Meanwhile, the Port of Long Beach has struck a deal with the Utah Inland Port Authority and Union Pacific Railroad to facilitate rail deliveries from California to Utah, and it and the Port of Los Angeles have announced surcharges for ocean carriers whose containers remain at terminals past certain time limits.
Just-in-time manufacturing and shipping may be growing less desirable as lessons from the pandemic influence companies' choices, writes Bryan Walsh, who notes the flaws with the method's predecessor, just-in-case production. Automation is one way to make the supply chain more effective, as is 3D printing, which has the potential to make components on-site.
Salespeople must use tact to broaden sales conversations to include multiple stakeholders within organizations, writes Colleen Francis. It's important to be inclusive and focus on bridges that connect with more stakeholders instead of tunnels that bypass certain people, Francis writes.
Workplace leadership has evolved over the decades to include more collaboration, more diversity, less emphasis on dress and less certainty in business conditions, writes Wally Bock. Progress is incomplete in many areas, including "learning that it's OK for a leader not to know and even to not be in charge some of the time," Bock writes.
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