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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

On every screen there were moving graphical visualizations of material inventory. Tom had literally put his inventory on these control towers, and it was all updating in real time. He is the editor emeritus of the Journal of Operations Management. Tom took me into a room called “the Pulse” that was full of television screens.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

Some of the recommendations I made to the group are discussed here in this blog, and published in the latest edition of Industrial Biotechnology journal. The global apparel sector’s effort resulted in the development of the Higg Index, a universally accepted LCA tool and life cycle inventory database.