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Supply chain management

The Corporate Water Footprint Summit 2008

Event: 16th Dec 2008 – 17th Dec 2008

Measuring Your Water Footprint and Identifying Water Usage Hotspots - Both Internally & Across The Supply Chain – To Assess Risks, Reduce Costs & Guarantee Business Continuity.

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Major manufacturers and retailers refine shipping and logistics operations to save energy costs

2nd Sep 2008

A survey just released by eyefortransport tells us what for most green-minded professionals seems obvious: High fuel prices are causing the country’s manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers to rethink their transportation strategies.

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Supply Chain Video Podcast - Episode 4

28th Aug 2008

This episode features Professor Richard Wilding talking about the importance of time, transparency and trust in assuring your supply chain.

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New method to measure carbon emissions across entire supply chain in all tiers

20th Aug 2008

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are urging companies to embrace new methods for following the trail of dangerous carbon emissions that are responsible for much of the world’s global warming threats.

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Managing global supply chains: McKinsey Global Survey Results

15th Aug 2008

A McKinsey Quarterly survey finds that supply chain risk is rising sharply. However, supply chain management isn’t keeping pace: most respondents say that their companies aren’t meeting strategic goals for it, and relatively few have acted on the global trends with the most influence over supply chains.

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McKinsey Supply Chain Risk Document

14th Aug 2008 by Alex Briggs

managing-global-supply-chains.pdfmanaging-global-supply-chains.pdf This is the PDF of the McKinsey survey on the growing importance of Supply Chain Risk.

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Supply Chain Video Podcast - Episode 3

14th Aug 2008

This 3rd episode features Professor Richard Wilding talking about the key issues and risks facing today’s global supply chains

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Supply Chain Management front and centre in Korea

4th Aug 2008 by Alex Briggs

LG Electronics has recognised their supply chain as both one of their biggest risks as well as one of their biggest opportunities. In this Korea Times article, Didier Chenneveau Chief supply chain officer,LG Electronics, talks about their global supply chain strategy.

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TNT on gaining ISO 14001 and their Global Planet Me movement - Podcast

30th Jul 2008

This episode is an interview with Neil Griffiths, Director of Health, Safety and Environmental at TNT express. LRQA recently certified TNT’s environmental management system to the ISO 14001 standard.

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Eye for Transport Report Highlights Green Supply Chain Issues

29th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

The attached report is the result of Eye For Transport’s recent survey of Supply Chain experts, with both current and future trends being evaluated.

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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Carbon Labelling

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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