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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

The retail giant plans to take out 50 million metric tons (MMT) by 2030, which is equivalent to the emissions associated with the average annual electricity consumption of 40 million Chinese households. Content Summary: Walmart Says It Can Reduce Emissions in China by 50 Million Tons. Several major U.S. Click here to read the full story.

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How Opna Bio SA Built a Successful Procurement Process as a Biotech Startup

Precoro

At present, Opna Bio SA comprises two small Research and Development companies, one in Lausanne, Switzerland and one in South San Francisco, USA. They were worried that with a manual approach, data entry and creation of procurement documents would be time-consuming and prone to errors. According to Ms. "User setup is simple.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I then moved to San Francisco and joined Bechtel. One way to quantify the global warming potential of embodied carbon is a document called an “environmental product declaration”, which is a way to provide transparency on a product’s total carbon footprint. I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela.

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Ranking Journals: Academic Journal Guide 2018 (“ABS List”)

SCM Research

One of these principles argues that quantitative evaluation should support qualitative, expert assessment, not replace it. Unfortunately, the ABS list has often been used in exactly the way the Leiden Manifesto and DORA wanted to prevent us from doing – with very negative consequences for our discipline.

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