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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

In Europe, the Green Deal Industrial Plan will require all new cars sold in the EU to be zero-emission starting in 2035. Lithium—sometimes called “white gold” due to its color and high value— is an essential and reactive metal widely used in various high-tech industries. Here is an overview of each: What is Lithium? What is Cobalt?

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COVID-19 in 2021: Supply Chain Organizations’ Biggest Concerns

DynaSys

And, there is a variable impacting emerging markets, which are major suppliers of so many commodities and inputs for global industry: Can limited medical infrastructures handle devastating disease upticks? Know the industries and markets that your suppliers and your B2B customers most rely on. Understand their sources of income.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

Trends for high-tech industry. The high-tech industry are currently facing a tsunami of external trends. The sourcing department is challenged by increasing compliancy issues. Antarctica. Antigua and Barbuda. Azerbaijan. Bangladesh. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bouvet Island. British Indian Ocean Territory. Brunei Darussalam.

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Supply Chains Carry The Day at COP21

EcoVadis

When looking “ across all industries, companies’ direct emissions average only 14% of their supply chain emissions prior to use and disposal; accounting for the emissions in use and disposal of goods would make that percentage even lower” (Plambeck, Stanford Graduate School of Business). They set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2018.