GSCW chat recap: Using blockchain to tackle child labor, modern slavery
‘We can leverage blockchain to increase the transparency through the supply chain’
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This fireside chat recap is from Day 5 of FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week. Day 5 focuses on energy, chemicals and mining.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Building and maintaining an ethical supply chain
DETAILS: International supply chains can be opaque specifically to hide unethical behavior at the source. Blockchain can be used to ensure that supply chains do not incorporate unethical labor practices.
SPEAKER: Justin Goldston, a Penn State University professor
BIO: Goldston is a professor of project and supply chain management at Penn State whose research focuses on blending the practices of supply chain management, emerging technologies and sustainability to create positive global change. He has over 20 years of experience working with organizations around the world such as Intel, Siemens and Blue Buf
GSCW chat recap: Operating an asset-light 4PL
‘A 4PL actually gets involved in the strategy of the customer’
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This fireside chat recap is from Day 5 of FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week. Day 5 focuses on energy, chemicals and mining.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Operating an asset-light 4PL.
DETAILS: This fireside chat focuses on how 4PLs are different from 3PLs, and how customers can benefit with a 4PL.
SPEAKERS: Tim Sensenig is chief executive officer for TMSforce and TMSfirst. Rick Gonzalez is senior vice president, global operations, for TMSforce. (FreightWaves oil market expert John Kingston hosted the chat.)
BIOS: Sensenig has been involved with supply chain technology since 1994 when he created SCM technology investment banking at DU/Credit Suisse. He was also vice chairman of G-log, the most successful global logistics software company, and he ran the largest Indian-based freight forwarding software company, with over 700 engineers, now known a
GSCW chat recap: Bob McDowell and John Esparza ‘Companies that have been around a long time, they don t get too excited when times are bad, and they don t get too excited when times are great either. That s just been cyclical with the oil industry’
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This fireside chat recap is from Day 5 of FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week. Day 5 focuses on energy, mining and chemicals.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: The highs and lows of trucking in the oil patch
DETAILS: Along with the pandemic came a drop in oil prices. Since the U.S. oil patch has long been heavily dependent on debt to keep operating, it meant that there was going to be a significant squeeze on companies, especially trucking companies that haul oil, equipment, frac sand and other products needed to service oil fields around Texas.
GSCW chat recap: Duchesne on Nikola’s Arizona plant
Duchesne talks the ‘art of making things’
0 1,166 1 minute read Mark Duchesne discusses Nikola s new plant construction in Arizona.
This fireside chat recap is from Day 4 of FreightWaves
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Nikola’s first plant blooming in the Arizona desert
DETAILS: Mark Duchesne brought diverse manufacturing experience to Nikola Corp., having helped build a plant for Toyota in China and make startup car building decisions at Tesla Inc. He is applying the best of both to Nikola as it builds its electric truck plant in the Arizona desert.
SPEAKER: Duchesne, global head of manufacturing at Nikola