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Green Skies? Airlines Need a Tail Wind to Decarbonize

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I recently attended a webinar on need to decarbonize the air transport industry – a very urgent priority ! Many more have simply lost so much business that it is only through government intervention that they manage to keep the lights on. Governing bodies tend to regulate only flights that traverse within their borders.

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Supply Chain: Interrupted. A recap of our recent webinar on disruptions and trends from the first half of 2021

Resilinc

In a recent webinar on the state of risk and trends in supply chains, Resilinc CEO, Bindiya Vakil, and Director of Supply Chain Risk Consulting, Hirra Akhtar, described how aftershocks arising from the pandemic continue to disrupt supplies and logistics, and that these disruptions will continue well into 2022.

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A New Red Wagon?

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I spent time with large chemical companies engrossed in this discussion. Let’s take a look at the world of the chemical manufacturer. Acquisitions drove DOW Chemical’s wide swings. The chemical company’s performance today is largely based on financial engineering. Fear is a powerful motivator.

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The Green Corridor – Keep an Eye Out for Green!

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Add in growing government incentives and we should see more EV taxi fleets on the road. . EVs are attractive to taxi companies because they have the fleet size to support their own charging infrastructure and reap huge savings in operational costs. Imagine not having to pay for another liter of patrol and only pennies for kilowatt hours!

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Corporate Sustainability: Are Companies Vulnerable?

Supply Chain Shaman

economic impacts and the encouragement of good governance practices, throughout the life cycles of goods and services. The first corporate social responsibility statement was published by Dow Chemical in 1996. The two sets of processes lack common processes and definitions for governance. United Nations Global Compact.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

Governance. A large system integrator implemented Logility in a chemical company for services of $5.4M Most companies are moving backwards in S&OP process effectiveness due to the lack of leadership, clarity of supply chain strategy, definition of governance, and the lack of modeling capabilities. without a material balance.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

Already, the US is looking as attractive as Mexico to manufacturers and is likely to match China in attractiveness in the near future, according to the MAPI Foundation , which produces in-depth economic reports widely read by the press, government official and the business community. But things have changed a bit since then.