Supply chain

Bruce Klafter of Flex on driving collective action across the company's supply chain

February 26, 2020

WithHeather Clancy, Sarah Golden and Bruce Klafter

Bruce Klafter is vice president of corporate social and environmental responsibility at Flex, an electronics manufacturing services company. Klafter joined Heather Clancy and Sarah Golden, Sidebar cohosts during GreenBiz 20, to discuss how the company is improving its supply chain through IoT and blockchain technology as well as working closely with its customers.

Episode 208: Humanizing supply chains, from food waste to household cleanser

February 21, 2020

By Heather Clancy and Deonna Anderson

Plus, outtakes from this week's interview with Maria Pope, CEO of Portland General Electric.

How digital identities could bring us closer to a circular economy

February 17, 2020

By Lauren Phipps

Tracking technologies could provide information throughout a product's journey, from the start all the way through to its use at the consumer level, and ultimately to its disposal or reuse in the future.

How big data and AI can make supply chains better for consumers and the planet

February 12, 2020

By Carol Fung

Mining information about what people want and what they buy (as well as when and why they buy) can lead to surprising innovations that can have far-reaching effects.

How Thai Union rapidly pivoted to a greener business strategy

January 20, 2020

By Michael Holder

The Thai canned fish giant is moving beyond past criticism to lead the seafood industry towards a more planet-friendly future

BMW is the first carmaker to join responsible mining initiative

January 14, 2020

By Toby Hill

Carmakers are coming under increasing pressure to ensure the materials used for electric vehicle production are responsibly sourced.

A sustainability lesson from IBM: take the lead and your supply chain might follow

December 14, 2019

By CB Bhattacharya

Companies must establish systems, structures and training to make it relatively easy for every employee and supplier to implement sustainability.

Capturing the opportunities of natural climate solutions

December 4, 2019

By Michèle Zollinger

Sponsored: Companies are working with nature to reach their corporate carbon targets.

Pratima Rao Gluckman on the promise of blockchain for accelerating circular solutions

November 6, 2019

WithPratima Rao Gluckman

Pratima Rao Gluckman, Senior Engineering Leader at VMware, shares insights on where and how blockchain will enable and accelerate solutions to critical environmental and social challenges on the VERGE 19 main stage in Oakland, California.