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Translog Connect Congress 2016

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Translog Connect Congress
23-24 November 2016
Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal Budapest, Hungary
www.translogconnect.eu

TRANSLOG Connect is the market leading cross-industrial business summit for transportation, logistics and supply chain management professionals in the CEE region taking place annually in November, in Budapest, Hungary.

Directors from all important leading businesses from numerous industries – such as automotive, electronics, oil & gas, heavy industry & steel, retail, food & beverage, FMCG, energy and beyond – are attending each year’s summit to meet the key logistics, software, consultancy, transportation and warehousing service providers.

Most up-to-date market insights

In order to ensure the quality of the conference programme, we work closely together with leading local and regional associations, European and international media partners and our Programme Advisory Committee, whose members are well-known logistics experts of leading international companies. The conference programme offers the most up-to-date market insights into supply chain management, logistics, production, IT, transportation and warehouse management-related topics.

4th CEE Logistics and Supply Chain Management Excellence Award

The award has been established to honour, recognise and promote outstanding logistics and supply chain management solutions in the growing region of CEE. Companies are welcome to apply in two categories: manufacturers and retailers in the first and service providers with a customer related project in the second. All projects will be evaluated based on their level of innovation, transferability, sustainability, cost-effectiveness and customer value-contribution.

Applications should be submitted by the 3rd of October 2016 and will be assessed by our highly renowned independent jury.

Pre-scheduled one-to-one business meetings & additional networking activities

Over the two days, service providers will have the opportunity to meet with leading directors and industry experts through a series of pre-arranged one-to-one business meetings and several informal networking activities, maximising business efficiency, presenting a unique opportunity to develop meaningful and valuable business relationships.

The event also offers an exclusive opportunity to take part in specially organised plant visits to major logistics and distribution centres in the region, all arranged prior to the event via our Meeting Scheduler website.

Five star venue

The best business is always achieved in the most excellent environment. This is why the event is organised for the 6th time in the 5*Corinthia Hotel Budapest on the 23–24 of November 2016.

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Unilever trials blockchain to improve supply chain sustainability

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In one of the industry’s first practical applications of blockchain, Unilever has embarked on a year-long pilot project involving the use of the high-profile technology to manage transactions within its tea supply chain. By enabling the project partners to reliably track products throughout the supply chain, the blockchain-based shared data system is expected to make it easier to validate the sustainability of the tea farmers’ agricultural practices and to reward them appropriately.

The blockchain project involves consumer products manufacturer Unilever as well as British grocery retailer Sainsbury’s and packaging company Sappi in conjunction with three banking firms – BNP Paribas, Barclays and Standard Chartered – plus several technology startups. The consortium is developing a system for tracking and verifying contracts for up to 10,000 farmers in Malawi that supply tea to Unilever and Sainsbury’s. Much of the technological support for the project has been provided by Provenance, a blockchain-based supply chain services firm, and Halotrade, a supply chain data processing company supporting information analysis.

In this real-life application of blockchain technology, tea farmers who are focused on methods designed to increase harvests without using more land will benefit from preferential pricing. The partners hope this will incentivize sustainable farming practices. In line with their own sustainability targets, the banks are keen to provide financial support to such practices but often find it difficult to validate whether farmers are truly working with such methods. The initiative also contributes to Unilever’s sustainable agriculture programme, within which it aims to source all of its raw agricultural products sustainably by 2020.

This pilot project involves recording information about the farmers’ produce, including quality, unit price and sustainability-related crop production metrics, to a blockchain. That information can then be accessed in the shared data system by all project partners, including the banks, who can then reward those farmers working with verified sustainable methods by giving them access to more credit, for example, or offering them more attractive borrowing terms.

Blockchain is the secure distributed ledger system used by digital currencies such as bitcoin. It is widely regarded as having countless potential uses for transactions or contracts in all kinds of industries, including to create supply chain transparency. “This innovative new technology will help us increase sustainable sourcing, enhance the livelihoods of the smallholder farmers we work with around the world, and help to make sustainable agriculture mainstream,” stated Keith Weed, Unilever’s Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Sustainable Business.

The trial is initially focused on tea crops, but the scope of the project may well expand to cover other areas as the pilot progresses.

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Key Boardroom Conversations for Supply Chain in 2018

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It’s 2018; in mature companies, the board of directors includes a Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO). He – in spite of gender diversity efforts, the CSCO is still a man in most cases – reports directly to the company’s CEO, underlining the importance of the supply chain function as a crucial part of the business.

In the boardroom, the CSCO hears other executives’ opinions on all kinds of topics. These are some of the boardroom conversations the CSCO should be having with his colleagues this year:

Chief Executive Officer (CEO): “We need to start a business transformation for our company this year, because of all the disruptive forces attacking us.”
CSCO: “Yes, I agree. But we have to preserve our efficient core processes, in addition to new agility. Remember, we must be efficient wherever we can and agile where necessary.”

Chief Financial Officer (CFO): “In this era of dramatic changes, business continuity is of the utmost importance for our company for us to be able to predict the next quarterly earnings.”
CSCO: “Of course! Integrated Business Planning will help us to work with a long-term horizon and take smart and timely measures to close any gaps in our financial budget.”

HR Director: “There is a war for talent going on, so we have to make our company more visible and appealing to attract and retain bright new employees.”
CSCO: “Let’s not forget to actively improve the gender diversity in our company to tap into the pool of female talent and achieve better and more balanced decision-making.”

Chief Procurement Officer (CPO): “Our company is facing more supply risks because of a growing number of natural disasters globally and the extensive outsourcing by us and our suppliers.”
CSCO: “Yes, I know. Besides managing supply chain risks, we should also apply open innovation and listen to our suppliers more closely to spot innovative technology at an early stage.”

Chief Information Officer (CIO): “We must address cybersecurity because of the increasing number of data breaches, while still digitalizing processes and implementing the Internet of Things.”
CSCO: “That’s absolutely true. And we should clean up our master data, so we don’t drown in an ever-cloudier pool of data, before applying advanced analytics.”

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO): “In the omni-channel world of growing competitiveness, we need to deliver customer excellence to ensure business growth.”
CSCO: “Clever customer segmentation and optimization of our product and service portfolio will ensure that our company achieves profitable growth.”

Besides holding these boardroom conversations, the CSCO needs to listen to and respond to the challenges and the opinions of his colleagues in Planning, Operations, Logistics, Sales and Marketing. But most of all, the CSCO should communicate his own agenda for realizing sustainable and transparent end-to-end supply chains.

Supply Chain Media wishes all CSCOs and other supply chain professionals many fruitful conversations in 2018!

Martijn Lofvers, CEO & Chief Trendwatcher
martijn.lofvers@supplychainmedia.nl

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Working Wisdom: quote about sustainability

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Paul Polman once said: “If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.”

Having previously worked for Procter & Gamble and Nestlé, Paul Polman (born 1956) became CEO of British-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever in 2009. With Polman at the helm, Unilever has developed an ambitious vision to “fully decouple its growth from overall environmental footprint and increase its positive social impact through the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan”.

Polman has received several awards for business leadership related to sustainable development including the Rainforest Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award (2014), the UN Environment Programme’s Champion of the Earth Award (2015) and, in 2016, France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in recognition of his efforts in galvanizing business action on sustainability and for his involvement during the historic 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. Alongside his role for Unilever, Polman is chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and a member of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission.

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Category: Strategy & Organization

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Modern Slavery & Human Rights in Supply Chain Conference

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The purpose of the 3rd Modern Slavery & Human Rights in Supply Chain Conference is to equip businesses with actionable insights and a good understanding of how the issues of forced labour and human rights abuse can be eradicated from their supply chain.

The Conference will provide a sufficiently distinctive, collaborative and solution-packed two-day agenda. You are guaranteed focussed corporate learning at its best through practical case studies, interactive roundtable discussions and open Q&As.

Led by the world’s top brands, you will hear from senior supply chain, compliance, and sustainability practitioners alongside leading policymakers, including;

  • ENGIE, Chief Procurement Officer, John Farley
  • Anglo American, Group Head of Government and International Relations, Froydis Cameron
  • Centrica, Director Risk & Controls Procurement, Siwan Kalatzi
  • BBC Worldwide, Head of Ethics, Kevin O’Neill
  • Philips, Director Supplier Sustainability, Marcel Jacobs
  • M&S, Corporate Head of Human Rights, Food Sustainability (Plan A) & Food Packaging, Louise Nicholls
  • Foodbuy, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Duncan Gray
  • Sotheby’s, Director, HR Business Partner & Head of CSR London, Kathryn Ward

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Scania wins Greener Supply Chain Award

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Scania recently won the Greener Supply Chain Award for its environmentally friendly transport operations in Germany and the Benelux countries. The prize was presented at the first-ever Automotive Logistics Awards ceremony, which was held on 12 June 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The judges were particularly impressed by how the world-leading provider of transport solutions has integrated sustainability into its transport procurement process, calling it “a very holistic approach that puts sustainability at its focus, rating CO2 emission equally with costs and quality”.

The jury also praised Scania’s systematic and focused approach towards greener supply chains. “Scania has clearly changed the culture of its organization to deliver this consistent and measured benefit. Seriously impressive,” they concluded. Besides that, Scania was recognized for its process of optimizing transport flows with regard to quality, cost and CO2 reduction and determining the best balance between these three factors. This approach was initially applied in procuring transport services in Germany and the Benelux countries but has now been extended to all European countries.

Assessing CO2 reduction potential

The optimization process starts with Scania assessing the potential for reducing CO2 along each transport route. The company then considers the possible alternatives (e.g. rail transport or gas) per route and per country. Scania subsequently requests quotes from various carriers and chooses the one that strikes the best balance between quality, cost and CO2 reduction. In terms of results, Scania has already reduced its carbon footprint by 20 percent and achieved the added benefit of an 8 percent cost reduction in Germany and the Benelux countries, and across Europe carbon emissions have been reduced by between 10 and 60 percent. Scania’s transport landscape has changed from exclusively diesel towards a new balance between diesel, renewable fuels and rail solutions, and the company is reexamining the situation every three years to keep pace with the ever-increasing availability of renewable fuels.

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Audi becomes first car maker to achieve ASI sustainability certification

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Audi has become the first car manufacturer worldwide to receive certification from the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). The certificate has been awarded for the sustainable battery housing of the Audi e-tron.

The ASI Performance Standard certification confirms that Audi meets the ASI requirements for industrial users of aluminium, and that the aluminium components of the battery housing of the Audi e-tron are designed and manufactured sustainably.

Independent third-party auditors carried out audits at the Audi plants in Győr (Hungary), Neckarsulm (Germany) and Brussels (Belgium) for the assessment. As the next step, the company intends to ensure the sustainability of these components in its wider supply chain by working specifically with partners that are also ASI-certified.

Aluminium very energy intensive

Aluminium is an important material in car manufacturing, but is very energy intensive in production. As a company that puts a high value on sustainability along the entire supply chain and stewardship of the materials it uses, Audi has welcomed the transparency offered by the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s new certification programme. According to Bernd Martens, Member of the Board of Management for Procurement and IT at Audi, ASI certification of the battery – which is a major component of the new, all-electric Audi e-tron – is just the beginning.

In the longer term, Audi plans to gradually have its own development, procurement and production processes audited for as many aluminium components as possible at the company’s plants worldwide. In addition, Audi intends to ensure long-term sustainability by working with ASI-certified partners and their suppliers along their respective upstream supply chains.

Audi has been involved in the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative since early 2013. In recent years, the initiative has developed and launched global sustainability standards including environmental, social and governance criteria which apply to all stages of the process chain – from the extraction of the raw material (bauxite) through processing and production to recycling.

For more information, go to aluminium-stewardship.org.

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Supply chain start-up in the spotlight: OnTruck

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OnTruck is a cloud-based booking platform and mobile app that connects shippers and carriers. The company was founded by Íñigo Juantegui (pictured) in Madrid, Spain, in 2016. OnTruck envisions the future of short-haul road freight transport across Europe as being integrated, adaptable and simple.

By combining logistics with technology, it aims to be the most intelligent platform helping businesses to move road freight as efficiently and reliably as possible, while also helping to reduce environmental waste and carbon emissions. The platform strives to offer a great end-to-end customer experience and transparency through competitive and instant pricing.

OnTruck benefits everyone in the chain: shippers benefit from reduced transportation and supply chain costs, truckers and hauliers can boost their vehicle utilization and earn more, and the company’s focus on sustainability benefits society as a whole.

Customer portfolio

The customer portfolio includes Procter & Gamble, Decathlon, Kuehne+Nagel, PepsiCo, Mahou, TNT and Palletways. The company is currently completing over 5,000 consignments a month in Spain. Since raising $10 million in Series A funding – bringing the total funding up to over €11 million – and opening an office in London in 2017, OnTruck has also completed over a thousand consignments in the South-East of the UK.

International growth is a key part of OnTruck’s goal to become the leading local and regional road freight transport network in Europe, and the company has been expanding its operations in the UK across the Midlands, North East and Scotland in 2018. OnTruck currently employs around a hundred people.

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Supply Chain Management Forum

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The Supply Chain Management Consumer & Retail Sector Forum, 16-17 May 2019 in Berlin, aims to provide insights to think in a morge global way, increase efficiency in supply chain flows and focusses on ‘end-to-end’ solutions. The main focus of the supply-chain management function in today’s competitive world is to maximize the customer satisfaction, to minimize the costs, to work in a more global perspective, to implement innovative technological solutions and to be flexible under the changing circumstances.

Using more environmentally friendly methods during the operation management or improving the automation for all logistics processes could be given as two examples which will be faced by the supply chain management teams. New Perspectives in supply chain management for the Consumer & Retail Sector Forum will be a two day global event designed to stimulate your thinking on these and other matters. The forum format will be a combination of best practices/keynote presentations from Peers, thought by sector leaders, supply chain experts and solution providers from the all sectors; interactive discussion sessions; workshops and networking breaks.

Key topics

  • Transform the supply chain in a competitive edge allowing business
  • Supply Chain Analytics
  • How will the future supply chain for Consumer & Retail Industry look like with Artificial Intelligence?
  • Ensuring effective communication between distributors, suppliers and retailers
  • How does your supply chain interface effectively with your retail customers?
  • How do you structure your supply chain to become a leading FMCG manufactory?
  • Building a supplier development management system
  • How can companies continue to invest in digital procurement process technology when they have tight operating budgets?
  • Maximizing your supply chain opportunities through innovation
  • How to get the most out of your Planning-Drive Integrated Business Planning as a way of managing business?
  • E2E Supply chain planning process – transformation to digital synchronization
  • E-sourcing tools usage in Logistics freight procurement
  • Inventory control and demand forecasting using new methods
  • Implementation of a digitized procurement system
  • Outdoor Logistics Automation

Interested? Visit the website and attend the event!

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The power of purchasing to drive a sustainable economy

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To really improve sustainability, companies must look beyond their own in-house activities. On average, a company’s supply chain accounts for 5.5 times as many greenhouse gas emissions as its own operations. These figures come from a new global supply chain report called ‘Cascading commitments: Driving upstream action through supply chain engagement by CDP.

Formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP runs a global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts. When it started ten years ago, 19 corporations began to drive action across their supply chains. Now, following a decade of campaigning by CDP, there are 115 organizations involved – wielding a combined purchasing power in excess of US$3.3 trillion between them – and 5,500 suppliers.

By asking their suppliers to disclose, measure and act on their environmental impact, companies are able to leverage their purchasing power to drive down emissions, improve water security and end deforestation throughout the supply chain. According to CDP’s global supply chain report, suppliers reported a total reduction in annual emissions of 633 million tonnes of carbon dioxide last year, which equated to a collective cost saving of US$19.3 billion.

Some companies are also taking the first steps on deforestation and water security risks, but lack of governance remains a barrier to further action. However, only 57% of suppliers reported emissions reduction activities, just 35% have a structured carbon reduction target and a mere 3% of targets are in line with what the science says is necessary. With major purchasers now increasingly deselecting suppliers based on their environmental performance, there is growing pressure for suppliers to act sustainably in order to avoid an impact on their bottom line.

Supplier Engagement Rating

CDP has developed a Supplier Engagement Rating to evaluate responding companies on their supplier engagement performance across four key areas: governance, targets, emissions and value chain engagement. The Supplier Engagement Leaderboard lists more than 120 companies, including many leading names in biotech/healthcare, food & beverage/hospitality, manufacturing, transportation and materials.

Paul Simpson, Chief Executive Officer of CDP, states: “The lesson from a decade of the CDP Supply Chain programme is that large public and private-sector organizations really can lead effective change through using their substantial procurement spend as a powerful lever for action. If others can follow their example, and suppliers continue to cascade good practices and commitments further down the supply chain, this can play a huge role in the rapid transition to a sustainable, low carbon economy.”

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