Breaking down Mars’ maverick move for a more sustainable palm oil supply chain
After more than a decade of work intended to rid palm oil supply chains of deforestation, the results don’t match the effort. Deforestation has increased,...
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Human Rights Day Signals a Call For Improved Supply Chain Transparency
As the world marks Human Rights Day, the widening societal inequalities brought into focus by the pandemic are a stark reminder of the action needed...
North American Supply Chain Summit to look back at 2020 disruption and ahead to 2021’s promise
Supply chain disruption became the norm in 2020, propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. But global supply chains faced unprecedented pressures from other outside factors as...
Supply Chain Innovation: The Role of Continuous Improvement
When it comes to marketplace innovation, time is of the essence. Over the last two decades, 52 percent of Fortune 500 companies have gone extinct....
COVID vaccine and the supply chain: Trouble ahead?
The various vaccines developed in recent months to immunize people against the novel coronavirus are already being readied for the general public in some countries;...
Supply chain management professor recognized with Wagner Prize
UNIVERSITY PARK — Saurabh Bansal, an associate professor of supply chain management in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has been awarded the 2020...
SEIA asks solar companies to sign pledge against forced labor in supply chain
Today on International Human Rights Day, the solar industry is launching a proactive campaign to ensure the solar supply chain does not include abhorrent forced...
The unique challenges and opportunities in the critical materials supply chain
The Technology Metals Show hosts Jack Lifton and Peter Clausi talk to Christopher Ecclestone, Principal and mining strategist at Hallgarten & Company, and Mitchell Smith,...
Rutgers Business School supply chain program No. 2 in the nation
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick’s undergraduate supply chain management program is No. 2 in North America, according to the latest Top 25 Supply Chain...
Phishing Attack Targets Vaccine Supply Chain; Linked to Charitable Gavi Project, Attempts Recorded Throughout Europe and Asia
2020 has demonstrated several times over that no target is beneath the world’s cyber criminals; this time it’s a coordinated phishing attack on the global...