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

Requis

The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. This is how I learned about the concept of “retained carbon”, or embodied carbon, which is essentially the carbon that is used in the extraction and manufacture of materials used in a project. And this is a significant amount.

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Case Saarioinen: Improving Processes All the Way from Production to the Consumers

RELEX Solutions

It prides itself on quality and responsibility, and aims to positively impact the economy at production sites. By optimizing its planning process, its goal is to match the purchase of raw materials and production to forecasted demand from all of its customer segments: retail, wholesale, food service, and industrial customers.

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Major organisational and cultural changes lie ahead for SCM

Supply Chain Movement

The trends of increasing urbanisation and digitisation were covered extensively several times during the Logy Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Reima, a rapidly growing Finnish manufacturer of children’s clothing, has been around for 70 years yet still has the genes of a start-up in its DNA, explained Chief Supply Chain Officer Nina Anttila.

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Supply Chain Management:Leveraging Social Media for Improving.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. For example, it would make more sense to use the customer data of users located in Northern US, Finland, Germany for a winter jacket. Automotive. Financial Services.

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The Key Coffee Industry Trends For 2021 & Beyond

Unleashed

Europe is the seat of coffee’s power across the world, although the UK itself only makes up a small portion of this market (compared to the likes of Finland, where consumers drink about four times as much coffee as the UK). Sources used in our figures above: IBIS World, Statista, Mordor Intelligence. Source: Statista.

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The blockchain revolution: audit efficiency & trust in sustainably certified supply chains

Provenance

It documents ideas for how certifiers can leverage blockchain technology to reduce audit inefficiency, create a single source of truth for chain of custody (CoC) tracking and support sustainability data reporting. A single source of truth for chain of custody tracking. Travelling to UPM Kymi Pulp Mill in Finland. Background.