Global ESG and supply chain regulations are driving companies to implement multi-tier supply chain mapping and traceability within certain industries. Here we discuss some impacts of those regulatory requirements on companies’ processes and systems.
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Quantifying the Value of Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Networks—Part Two
Pharmaceutical supply chains face a number of challenges that could be mitigated by the adoption of multi-enterprise supply chain application network technology. Here we describe the structure of pharmaceutical supply chains and key challenges faced, such as: diverse and divergent incentives among different supply chain participants, complexity and opacity of product and financial flows, strict regulations, perishable products, and elusive patient adherence.
Achieving Transparency, Risk Reduction, and Impact with ESG Investing—Part One
This article series looks at the potential opportunities of ESG investment – both for profitability/shareholder value and the social good. Environmental, social, and governance activities and investments have grown exponentially in recent decades.
Regulations’ Impact on ESG and Supply Chain Risk Management—Part One
We look at the various goals of legislation and regulations for supply chains, products, and corporate responsibility across the globe. This includes regulatory goals such as anti-counterfeiting, recall efficiency, anti-slavery, GHG emissions reduction, defunding conflicts, restricting harmful substances in products, biodiversity, circular economy, and anti-corruption.
The Brief – October 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023 – Published once each month. Regulation’s Impact on ESG and Supply Chain Risk
Data-Enabled Digital Transformation—Part One
Data democratization and self-service analytics are a gateway to companies’ data-driven decision-making in this post-digital transformation world. Rapid digitalization has altered the scope and scale of data usage across industries and throughout supply chains. Database structures and data management processes require accessible, accurate, and timely data, integrated from many sources to progress alongside this evolving landscape.
Green Hydrogen’s Role in Enabling Zero-Emission Transportation—Part Two
Generous government subsidies are being provided to kick-start and incentivize the truly enormous investments required to create the scale of green hydrogen infrastructure required to tackle climate change. Over a trillion dollars of investment, between now and 2050, will be required to decarbonize the shipping sector alone. More will be required to decarbonize steel, cement, and other hard-to-abate sectors.
Quantifying the Value of Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Networks—Part One
Blockchain technology can provide a foundation for multi-enterprise supply chain networks. Multi-enterprise processes require multi-enterprise software systems, which are architected very differently from single-enterprise systems (such as ERP). Blockchain supports multi-enterprise transactions and processes by design.
Direct Materials P2P—Part Five
There is a tremendous variety of direct materials procure-to-pay solutions. Here we explore a framework for understanding the P2P solutions landscape.
Direct Materials P2P—Part Four
Here are results from our survey and interviews with over 120 manufacturers about their level of direct materials P2P automation, why they automate, the KPIs they use to measure success for their direct P2P, and more.
Pallet-level Monitoring for the Fresh Food Supply Chain – Part Two
Intelligent distribution optimizes distribution decisions, at each stop of the cold chain, based on the remaining shelf life of each pallet. It creates uniform shelf-life pallets and shipments and is key to maximizing the shelf life of produce at each process step in the end-to-end supply chain. Implementing these approaches can cut losses in half for retailers and growers.