All Things Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
With the recent technological advancements of the 21st century, cobalt has become a key ingredient of the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries. Used in electric vehicles (EV) it gives them the…
NC State SCRC
APRIL 22, 2022
What will happen to those manufacturers that can’t or won’t convert? of the lithium reserves and a quarter of its copper deposit, much in the Atacama desert – see picture of the flats above); Third, the Congo which has 46% of global cobalt reserves and produces 70% of the world’s output. They go out of business?
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Operations and Supply Chain Management
JUNE 3, 2014
First Reports Filed to SEC on Potential Use of Minerals From a Region of War-Torn Africa. listed companies that have filed their first audits on whether their products contained any tin, gold, tungsten or tantalum from Africa’s war-torn Congo region. Companies Detail Use of ‘Conflict’ Metals. Crew Group Inc.,
Arena Solutions
MAY 3, 2022
The global shift from traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to vehicles with electrified powertrains is underway, and it’s creating greater complexity for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their supply chains. Alliances with manufacturing specialists. Adoption of more sustainable sourcing practices.
Resilinc
JULY 25, 2023
In those roles, we closely aligned with 3,000 total suppliers globally, constituting about 6,500 individual manufacturing locations. We were also in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. A simple thing that we always said was that we wanted to buy where we manufactured. And who is going to have to wait?
SCM Research
OCTOBER 28, 2013
In the first Fairphone that will be released in December 2013, conflict-free tin and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been integrated in the manufacturing of the phone, but that’s only a first step. To do so, we are searching for solutions by engaging in partnerships to come with alternatives to current models.
QAD
JUNE 28, 2022
And, also served as a wake up call across the manufacturing and other industries, not just the textile and garment segment. In the early 2000s, Apple faced massive criticism based on a number of suicides at their Foxconn outsourced manufacturing sites, primarily thought to be driven by poor woking conditions.
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