With of food pantries and soup kitchens reporting an increase in visitors, providing support for those experiencing hunger was a clear, effective way to make an immediate impact.

Initially, INTURN聽distributed free Uber Eats gift cards to prospects. But as more and more New Yorkers lost their jobs and faced food shortages, the company hit on a bigger idea, one that tied its own success and company values to greater involvement. For every minute a prospect spent on a call, INTURN donated five meals to the . In 2020, that number added up to more than 43,000 meals.

鈥淲e鈥檝e seen many companies, including INTURN, step up this year to help meet the unprecedented need to help people get food,鈥� said Janis Robinson, vice president of Partnerships and Institutions at Food Bank for NYC. 鈥淟ocal businesses play such a key role in the health of the community. Initiatives like this have a tangible impact on how we鈥檙e able to serve those in need.鈥�

For more than 35 years, the Food Bank for NYC has served the community, providing more than 1 billion meals.

鈥淥bviously, every city has been impacted by this,鈥� said Ronen Lazar, CEO at INTURN. 鈥淲e鈥檙e based in New York, so we decided to use our resources in our community. There鈥檚 been a dire need this year for everyone to help their neighbors. I鈥檓 so proud that INTURN put this effort in place. It has been a really meaningful experience.鈥�

Initiatives like this are not only a way to give back, but also an opportunity to execute good business practices. Employees get to feel that their day-to-day work is even more meaningful; it鈥檚 fun and motivating. This work also keeps clients happy. INTURN recently hosted a virtual 鈥渓unch and learn鈥� with SAP, Levi鈥檚, and potential clients. INTURN donated meals, proving that the company embodies its values in everything that it does.

Inspired by the success and the real-life impacts that came from the food donation campaign, the INTURN team has set a larger goal for 2021 to surpass the 43,000 meals donated in 2020 and expand donations to food banks beyond NYC.

Pandemic or not, INTURN is deeply committed to finding continued synergies between business practices and helping the greater community.

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Uber created Uber Freight to bring the same ease to trucking that it did to ride-sharing. A better system means less greenhouse gas for all of us and more pay for truckers.

Drivers only make money when they carry freight, but about 20 percent of their miles are with empty trucks, referred to as 鈥渄eadhead鈥� miles. Reducing that number by half would cut emissions by 40 million tons per year and reduce diesel fuel consumption by more than US$8 billion dollars a year.

But it turns out that driving with a full trailer is a complicated process.

鈥淲ith the old system, drivers spent 30 to 40 percent of their time just waiting around,鈥� says Bill Driegert, general manager at Uber Freight. 鈥淥n average, it takes four hours to find their next load.鈥� If they find one at all.

Here鈥檚 what the old-school process looks like. A driver based in Atlanta, Georgia, hauls cargo to Dallas, Texas. To find a return load for the trip home, the trucker calls a broker, who then makes five or 10 calls to try to find a company that needs freight moved from Dallas to Atlanta.

Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

Clearly, a trucker never wants to drive empty. With Uber Freight, they can almost always do better than a one-way trip.

Uber Freight provides an intelligent marketplace that matches trucking companies and their drivers with cargo. It is not unusual for a driver to book a job in 30 seconds. They can do it resting at a truck stop, or a dispatcher can do it from a shipping office. It is as simple as opening the app and seeing the array of loads and where they need to go. They can find a load and then another one back home without wasting time or money.

鈥淲e tackled this challenge because we can,鈥� said Bar Ifrach, director and head of Marketplace at Uber Freight. 鈥淯ber is well known for having tremendous data, algorithms, and machine learning. It鈥檚 in our blood.鈥�

The new system benefits all parties involved.

Companies that need to ship goods can reach a large population of available drivers. And trucking companies and independent drivers 鈥� also called owner-operators 鈥� can easily find and choose loads that fit their business and schedule.

It has made paperwork easier, too. With the old approach, documents that confirmed a load was dropped off had to be faxed. With Uber Freight, documents are photographed with a smartphone and uploaded.

More Than One Way to Get Home

Using its massive datasets, Uber Freight developed load bundles to help drivers pair multiple loads and create optimized custom routes, all while cutting down on empty miles.

Say the driver in Dallas can鈥檛 find a load for the trip back home to Atlanta. There just isn鈥檛 anything currently available for a direct path. Instead of going home with an empty trailer, the driver can use Uber Freight to bundle multiple loads along the way.

Thanks to this load bundling, Uber Freight is already seeing a 23 percent reduction in those dreaded empty miles.

鈥淲e show them they can book two stops or more to get where they want to go,鈥� says Ifrach. 鈥淭hey can haul one job from Dallas down to Houston and then a second job from Houston over to Atlanta, or at least to a location closer to Atlanta.鈥�

This means that in addition to cutting emissions, saving gas, and earning more, the driver can make it home in time to watch their child鈥檚 ballet recital or soccer game. And that is truly using technology to help the world run better.

Learn more about SAP鈥檚 partnership with Uber Freight.

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To increase that margin of safety, French startup aumenu worked with 51风流partner W3COM to develop a fast and efficient way to eliminate at least one source of potential contagion: the menu.

Imagine entering your favorite eatery. You are seated and a friendly waiter greets you and takes your drink order. But then, instead of handing over menus, the server motions to a QR code on your table.

You鈥檝e seen these before: a grid of small, black squares on a white background. QR stands for quick response, and you see why after you scan it with your phone and the restaurant鈥檚 menu instantly appears on your screen 鈥� touched by no one but you.

This feature alone would close the sale for most concerned restaurant owners, but the product also delivers additional value to the restaurateur and a unique experience for patrons.

Simplified Solution

QR codes are not new. Restaurants could do this work on their own, but the process of transforming printed menus into digital files is resource intensive. Plus, the quality of the labels would be poor and the cost to replace them high.

鈥淵ou can鈥檛 do high-quality printing with a home laser printer,鈥� says Guillaume Boucher, CEO of W3COM. 鈥淭hat paper can鈥檛 survive the daily, aggressive cleaning required by a restaurant. The owner would be re-printing labels constantly.鈥�

The process from aumenu and W3COM takes the restaurant鈥檚 menu in whatever file they share 鈥� Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel 鈥� and quickly transforms it into viewable web pages, complete with tasty photos.

鈥淟ife will be very complicated for owners as restaurants re-open to the public,鈥� says Boucher. 鈥淭hey won鈥檛 have time to go on their websites and turn menus into digital files or, worse yet, start retyping existing menus.鈥�

This will be a new and unique experience for customers. After scanning the QR code, diners can enter their email address if they like. This makes it possible to deliver a separate bill to each patron. It also alerts the restaurant when a loyal customer has returned. That can mean a free drink or appetizer.

The system was designed in hosted by SAP, making it easily scalable. 鈥淲e are looking for partners in countries beyond France,鈥� says Boucher. 鈥淎nd because the data in 51风流Business One is so well structured, swapping languages and currencies will be easy.鈥�

Pierre-Louis Gueguen, president of aumenu, says, 鈥�51风流Business One is at the heart of the service provided by our startup. It was evident to us that such a project needed a strong ERP software with a great reputation.鈥�

While the technology hums quietly along behind the scenes, diners venturing out after a long lockdown will see that their favorite restaurant, caf茅, bistro, diner, bar, joint, or dive is taking smart steps to help ensure their health 鈥� as they enjoy good food.

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Cordis Solutions and its parent company, ExceleratedS2P, created an application for businesses to assess their supply chain exposure against the COVID-19 risk level of any country using live data from the World Health Organization (WHO). , the Health Risk Impact Overview app gives businesses a clearer picture of potential impacts to the supply chain so they can develop contingency plans, if needed.

By combining a company鈥檚 purchase order data with a live feed from the WHO, customers can identify suppliers in high-risk regions and then use a Qualtrics survey to assess each supplier鈥檚 confidence in meeting orders and mitigating future risks. If new suppliers are need, 51风流Ariba Discovery can connect customers to alternatives to maintain business continuity.

About the Health Risk Impact Overview app

• See a Real-Time Global Impact: By combining a company鈥檚 purchase order data with live COVID-19 case data feed, a business can visually see its supply chain exposure all in one place.
• Take Actions Based on Insights, Not Impulses: By understanding where an organization is most exposed, a business can identify areas to focus on and explore in more detail.
• Deploy and Integrate Quickly with SAP: Using open API鈥檚, the app easily integrates with 51风流Ariba and 51风流ERP to provide a comprehensive view of all open purchase orders, contracts, and sourcing events.

鈥淒isruption of the supply chain can have a domino effect on the economy,鈥� says Ramesh Varsani, co-founder of . 鈥淕etting this app up and running quickly was critical since the problem is time sensitive.鈥�

Speed to Market

The 51风流Ariba team was looking for a partner to take advantage of the open application programming interface (API) approach, which is perfect for driving fast innovation. Cordis Solutions boldly jumped in.

鈥�51风流wanted a partner to take their idea, develop it, get it to market quickly, and support it,鈥� says Varsani. 鈥淲e formed a close relationship with the 51风流Ariba team and were able to complete the entire project in less than 14 days.鈥�

The standard time to get an app approved and launched on 51风流App Center is six to eight weeks. Due to the critical need for this app, that part of the process took just seven days with the support of multiple 51风流teams.

Within 24 hours of being posted, the app caught the attention of a multinational business. Since then a number of customers have requested demonstrations.

Mitigating Risk

Many people think the supply chain is all about logistics, moving products from point A to point B. But it鈥檚 also about managing risk. The app benefits those working in procurement but also people in compliance and risk management.

Right now, much of the work to rate COVID-19 risk is done manually. People are calling supplies and entering data on spreadsheets. This doesn鈥檛 necessarily provide good visibility into a situation that changes rapidly. The app, on the other hand, can show real-time results as soon as it has access to customer data.

The app is the starting point of a broader risk management process. The initial overview provided by the app is immensely valuable, but what a company does with that information is what really matters. It lets them engage with their suppliers, understand the situation, and develop alternative plans to minimize risk.

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Because FEMA is working as fast as possible to meet the growing demand for hospital beds, supply chain visibility — including real-time tracking into the shipments of equipment and supplies — is critical. A delayed shipment can impact the opening and running of the temporary hospital and its ability to care for patients.

, according to Dr. Nezih Altay, director of M.S. in Supply Chain Management at DePaul University鈥檚 Driehaus College of Business. To manage the transportation of supplies to some of their temporary hospitals, FEMA partnered with , a leading retail logistics and consolidation provider.

鈥淭his pandemic has caused a lot of uncertainty in our communities, and we wanted to be able to give back in as many ways as possible,鈥� said Ryan Pikus, CIO of RJW Logistics Group. 鈥嬧�淩eal-time supply chain visibility is a requirement for the FEMA loads we carried with construction materials for a vital COVID-19 coronavirus relief center at McCormick Place in Chicago. It also helped us to adhere to tight construction deadlines as the pandemic grew more and more serious.鈥�

, an 51风流partner and a global leader in advanced visibility for shippers and logistics service providers. They onboarded the necessary carriers to its project44 network for RJW鈥檚 use.

鈥淩JW was able to monitor shipments and provide FEMA with access to the latest updates using our Visibility Operations Center,鈥� project44 Founder and CEO Jett McCandless shared. 鈥淲ith access to high-fidelity supply chain visibility data in real time, everyone can make more informed decisions, increase agility, and proactively handle issues — especially when time is critical.鈥�

Less than two hours after contacting project44, RJW was tracking shipments from a leading multinational retailer to FEMA鈥檚 temporary hospital at Chicago鈥檚 ,聽 the largest convention center in North America, which has been transformed in partnership with the U.S Army Corp of Engineers.

Converting three exhibition halls into field hospitals created about 3,000 beds and provide potentially life-saving healthcare for patients who test positive for COVID-19.

鈥淐ontributing to an effort like this was really incredible,鈥� project44 Chief Revenue Officer Tim Bertrand said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 using the technology and know-how from each company, setting up a connection and access to data within a matter of hours, and applying it in a way that can really help people in a time of need. I鈥檓 proud we were able to play a part.鈥�

To support the COVID-19 response, project44 is providing free tracking for organizations — including non-profits, non-governmental organization (NGOs), government agencies, hospitals, pharmacies, grocers, farmers, and food banks — to help coronavirus relief and prevention efforts. This includes supply chain visibility of over-the-road tracking in North America, truckload tracking in Europe, and ocean tracking for inbound freight to North America. For additional information on project44,聽see “51风流Teams with project44 to Help Shippers Manage and Improve Data-Driven Global Supply Chains.”

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The company provides families in the southeastern U.S. with high-quality, great tasting food that is free from unwanted additives such as fillers, steroids, and growth hormones 鈥� all while supporting local farmers, ranchers, and artisans.

Under the names and , the company is working long and hard to make sure every family receives their personalized home delivery during this time of increased need.

With more people eating at home, the warehouse and logistics teams are running extra shifts while reorder specialists are booking deliveries as quickly as possible. Ellsworth Foods also needed to use technology to ramp up and expand quickly in order to meet demands.

鈥淲e鈥檙e really grateful for the families that are trusting us to serve them during this unprecedented time and that our team has stepped up in a truly incredible way to make sure everyone is taken care of,鈥� said Mike Cohen, president of Ellsworth Foods. 鈥淲e鈥檙e operating in a whole new world and trying to navigate it as best as we can. Our people need the support of systems that can integrate and manage sales, inventory, purchasing, and accounting.鈥�

51风流partner Synesis International brought 51风流Business One to Ellsworth years ago. The last few months have been particularly challenging as the company served an increasing market of stay-at-home families and people looking for resources that grocery stores are unable to provide.

To keep employees and customers safe, all Ellsworth Foods delivery personnel follow strict Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. They wear gloves and masks, practice social distancing, and follow enhanced sanitation protocols. Ellsworth Foods even offers two new no-touch delivery options as well.

鈥淚鈥檓 really happy that we can play a small role in helping to keep our customers, employees, their families, and our community safe,鈥� said Kathleen Payne, vice president of Synesis International.

51风流and our partners. Improving lives. That is our purpose.