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Part 1: The Role Reusables Play in Your Sustainability Strategy

Listen to this podcast to hear the role re-usable containers are playing in your e-commerce sustainability strategy as we move into recovery.

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Part 1: The Role Reusables Play in Your Sustainability Strategy
Recording Date
August 26, 2020
Duration
00:17:20 hrs/min/sec


Re-usables in Your Sustainability Strategy

Breanna Herbert, Sustainability lead and associate product manager at ORBIS Corporation, and Bob Peterson, VP of marketing at ORBIS Corporation, join Michael Levans, group editorial director of Peerless Media’s Supply Chain Group, to discuss the role re-usable containers are playing in your e-commerce sustainability strategy as we move into recovery.

In this first of two podcasts, Herbert and Peterson take a take a look at the current warehouse/DC operations environment as it responds to growing e-commerce pressures; defines some of the challenges facing fulfillment operations; shares some of the new sustainability strategies being deployed; and explores how re-usable containers are being integrated into fulfillment operations to improve efficiency and sustainable practices.

ORBIS is a diversified provider of reusable plastic containers, pallets, dunnage and bulk systems designed to improve the flow of product along the supply chain in an effort to reduce costs, enhance profitability and add sustainability.


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Plastic reusable containers and pallets improve the flow of product all along the supply chain to reduce costs. ORBIS, based in Oconomowoc, WI, helps world-class customers move their product faster, easier, safer and more cost-effectively. Using proven expertise, industry-leading knowledge, innovation, superior products (containers, pallets and dunnage) and supply chain services (pooling, cleaning and logistics) to implement plastic reusable packaging systems.



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