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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Labor day also signals the end of summer, and for many supply chain leaders the beginning of 2017 strategy discussions and intense S&OP debates to finalize Q3 and Q4 planning. Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. Analytics Techniques for Supply Chain 2030. I was wrong.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is a full five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2 GW to 10.4 More and more companies, and countries, are looking deeper into their trading partner relationships for potential forced labor violations.

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Circular Economy in ICT – Completing the circle of supply

EcoVadis

Successful implementation of CE initiatives starts by engaging with suppliers , a reality that has been once more confirmed by participants of the 3rd Suppliers Forum organized by Orange in July 2017. Accordingly, the industry will be responsible for 1.25Gt CO2e in 2030, or 1.97 percent of global emissions ( Fibre-Systems 2017 ).

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

Could we use Open Source Hadoop to process transactions across all networks with powerful in-memory processing? Another source of disappointment is the lack of capabilities in the IBP modeling engines. Traditional procurement functionality in SRM focused on improving transactional efficiency. Could it help in track and trace?

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How Will Smart Cities be Financed?

Enterra Insights

. “Singapore will cut back on power consumption by 22 percent with improvements in 80 percent of the building stock through its energy efficiency program, ‘green mark,’ in buildings by 2030 while the net savings are expected to amount to USD 400 million.” ”[7] It also means taxpayers could be leery. Footnotes. [1]

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Ultimate Guide To Technologies That Are Transforming Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Should supply chain delays occur, companies can more easily identify the source of bottlenecks and take action to improve processes. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, AI’s potential contribution to the global economy by 2030 is USD15.7 That’s an increase from 17% in 2017. of manufacturing companies in the U.S.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

Lack of standardised sustainability reporting makes it difficult to compare sustainability performance between source mines, set sustainability targets and reward best practice. In other words you cannot physically differentiate a sustainably sourced REE from a non-sustainably sourced REE without the use of tagging.