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Impressions from Day 2 at COP21: Commitments, Hope, Controversy and Chocolate

EcoVadis

Primarly, to help & contribute to the success of the event. The next thing you see is a team of young people distributing chocolate bars called “ the Change Chocolate “,the label being a great idea inorder to give energy to the negotiators at the event. Like the man below from Peru. First, money matters.

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Supply Chain Secrets Going Global – But Where Should we Share Them?

Logistics Bureau

I intend to hold low-cost, or even free, Supply Chain Secrets seminars in countries and regions that don’t often receive exposure to this type of educational event. Peru – Lima. —Will Durant, American Writer, Historian, and Philosopher. New Zealand – Auckland, Hamilton. Germany – Hamburg. The Netherlands – Rotterdam.

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Talking Turkey for Thanksgiving

Enterra Insights

Watching sports events, parades, and movies from home. Meanwhile, let us give thanks for the Mexican turkeys, potatoes originally from Peru, wine from French stock transplanted to California and apples originally from Europe that will adorn our tables on Thanksgiving because of the powerful winds of globalization.” 1] Farok J.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. This work is important to me.

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If You Can’t Stand the Fire, then Tame It: Chef José Andrés and Supply Chain Management

Elementum

Since its founding, the NGO has organized meal drives around the world, including in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Zambia, Peru, Cuba, Uganda, Cambodia, and throughout the United States. Every single event is a one-off. In the supply chain industry, we like to say we can’t predict the next black swan event.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

More than 154 million shipping events have been captured on the platform, including data such as arrival times of vessels and container “gate-in”, and documents such as customs releases, commercial invoices and bills of lading. This data is growing at a rate of close to one million events per day.

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Citius, Altius, Fortius… and Greatness

Tailwind

The last week I have been watching some of the events of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, marveling once again at these amazing Olympic athletes. But Citius, Altius, Fortius is the slogan of the Olympic Games, laying out the Olympian ideals of pushing past boundaries and excelling to be Faster, Higher, Stronger.