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Multiplying Impact: Collaboration on Sustainability Powers Business Performance

EcoVadis

As corporate responsibility attracts more attention, companies are not only making individual commitments to driving supply chain sustainability improvements — such as BMW ’s recent pledge to stop purchasing Congo cobalt — they’re also working with peers and competitors in their respective industries to accomplish sustainability-related goals.

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An update on copper

Resilinc

Those “long-term prospects” are embodied in the growing wave of green energy investment and the electrification of transport, heating, industrial processes, and other energy uses that now rely on fossil fuel combustion. Copper will be uniquely important for this massive transition in how energy is produced and used.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 14-18, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Also this week, as reported by Reuters , “Ford, technology giant IBM, South Korean cathode maker LG Chem and China’s Huayou Cobalt have joined forces in the first blockchain project to monitor cobalt supplies from Democratic Republic of Congo.”. Debates Lifting China Tariffs to Hasten Trade Deal, Calm Markets (WSJ – sub.

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Recap: State of the Supply Chain in 2022, Live Chat with Tom Linton

Resilinc

And with these multi-tier mapping tools now available, it can be very awkward for a CPO to explain to their CFO or CEO why a lower-tier disruption came as a surprise. Yet, many supply chain organizations still aren’t using these advanced tools. Linton: That’s right. Linton: I often say that supply chains are selfish.