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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

We are honored to partner with Changi Airport Group in this humanitarian effort for our friends in Indonesia.’’. CEVA Logistics is taking a lead in the air cargo industry to reduce the logistics-related impact on the environment at the source by creating demand for more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Acting for Planet.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. Here’s what we found: 1. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Consumers, activists, and investors increasingly want to know the products they buy are sourced sustainably and ethically. Transparency, on the other hand, involves moral and ethical dimensions of activities associated with sourcing and manufacturing. sources of raw materials. performance-based metrics. direct suppliers.

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Country Risk Scores Mapped and Explained

EcoVadis

These quantitative scores come from a number of international indexes identified by EcoVadis as reliable metrics that cover relevant sustainability topics around the world. RSF calculates each country’s Freedom of the Press score based on two sources: 1) quantitative research 2) journalist survey responses. to be high risk.

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Benchmarking Success: Focus on what Matters

Logistics Bureau

My first step was to engage Benchmarking Success (BMS) to understand what the “best” for each business really meant from an independent source. We set our performance targets according to the best-in-class metrics and I ended up helping these three companies successively achieve demonstrable best-in-class supply chain performance.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83 billion metric tons as of 2017. From product concept, sourcing, and ordering to delivery, Gravity helps its clients stay informed every step of the way. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86

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

Requis

The biggest one was liquified natural gas (LNG) development in Indonesia on the island of Papua. The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. Back when I was working in data centers we invented a metric that we used to calculate the efficiency of that data center.