EcoVadis

MAY 21, 2014

or the recent catastrophe in Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Surewiecki, 2013). For example, over the last two decades, Suncor, a resource firm based in Canada, has been characterized by the rise of multiple important issues, from habitat preservation, to the exploitation of indigenous workforce in its supply chain, to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

Best of all, rather than bore you with a dry report and statistics on creating private label products for Amazon FBA, I will weave everything around a completely fictitious example, which might very well work for you in real life! She was going to extend her stay in Guangzhou anyway until she signed a purchase agreement.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. What’s more, net food losses in developed countries (222 million metric tons) equate to nearly all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa yearly (223 million metric tons). From the wholesale manufacturers in Iowa to the farmers in Bangladesh, change is coming.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This creates a “double whammy” effect, in that digitization is driving up the need for analytics but to truly find collaborative solutions that rely on new technology solutions, companies will need to find ways to partner. Prediction 1 – Supply Chain Analytics Will Become More Predictive (Not Backward Looking).

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EcoVadis

MARCH 17, 2016

Evidence includes disasters such as the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 (and other examples displayed in the graphic below), widespread supplier “audit fatigue”, and a booming industry of third-party audit “consultants”[1]. Audits are ineffective tools for detecting, reporting , or correcting environmental and labour problems in supply chains.”.

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Freightera

APRIL 17, 2020

It’s a good example of how everything is intricately linked. JV: I am not in the medical field, but they must be using AI and predictive analytics to determine the spread and the medical response. For example, energy systems based on fossil fuels are the biggest contributor to climate change. Have you thought about this?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboard—a speedometer for example. When measuring the effectiveness and cost of your supply chain you will need to set up and monitor KPIs which give visibility of cross functional activity as well as those which apply to individual supply chain components.

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