sustainability
46 posts tagged with “sustainability”
GM’s Renewable Energy Milestone Turns Plant Power Into a Supply Chain Planning Signal
GM’s U.S. renewable electricity milestone shows why energy sourcing now belongs inside supply chain planning, supplier selection, and emissions-aware freight decisions.
CXTMS InsightsMay 22, 2026 · 6 min read
SPG’s Packaging Innovation Center Shows Sustainable Packaging Is Becoming a Logistics Engineering Problem
SPG’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center highlights a larger shift: sustainable packaging is now a logistics engineering decision tied to cube, damage, automation, claims, and freight cost.
CXTMS InsightsMay 20, 2026 · 7 min read
EPR Reporting Will Fail Without Better Product Data and Traceability
Extended producer responsibility reporting is becoming a logistics data challenge built on product IDs, packaging attributes, shipment records, and returns traceability.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Sustainable Fleets Are Diversifying, Not Converging: The 2026 Alternative-Fuel Lesson for Freight
The 2026 sustainable fleets signal is clear: freight operators are spreading risk across BEVs, natural gas, renewable diesel, propane, and hydrogen instead of waiting for one perfect fuel.
CXTMS InsightsMay 13, 2026 · 7 min read
Reverse Logistics Is Becoming an ESG Risk: Why Returns Processing Can No Longer Be a Back-Room Cost Center
Reverse logistics is moving from a cost-center problem to an ESG, fraud, labor, and customer-experience risk. Returns teams need faster disposition rules, better fraud controls, and auditable workflows.
CXTMS InsightsMay 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Sustainability Is Becoming an Operations Problem — and That Is Good News for Logistics Teams
Sustainability is moving from annual ESG reports into shipment-level decisions on routing, inventory, mode selection, and waste.
CXTMS InsightsMay 9, 2026 · 7 min read
The Freight Trilemma Is Breaking: Cost, Service, and Sustainability Can’t Be Planned Separately Anymore
Freight teams can no longer optimize cost, service, and sustainability in separate workstreams. Tight capacity and emissions pressure are making network efficiency the shared answer.
CXTMS InsightsMay 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Electric Trucks Cross $100B Market: How Fleet Decarbonization Is Reshaping Freight Strategy
The electric truck market has crossed into nine-figure territory, with major fleet operators committing to electrification at unprecedented scale. Here's what shippers need to know about the freight strategy shift.
CXTMS InsightsMay 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Food Supply Chains Still Can't Measure Scope 3 Well Enough, and That's Becoming a Compliance Problem
Food supply chains account for roughly one-quarter of global emissions, yet most brands can't get reliable Scope 3 data from their suppliers. Here's why the data gap is widening and what logistics teams need to do before reporting deadlines arrive.
CXTMS InsightsApril 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Apple’s Supplier Emissions Plateau: Why Renewable Energy Alone Won’t Decarbonize Global Supply Chains
Apple’s latest supplier data shows a hard truth for global logistics teams: adding renewable electricity is necessary, but it does not solve transport, materials, packaging, and manufacturing-process emissions on its own. The next phase of decarbonization will be operational, not symbolic.
CXTMS InsightsApril 25, 2026 · 6 min read