Sustainable Supply Chain Management - MIT SCM 290x Online Course welcome webinar

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Résumé

TLDRCe webinaire de bienvenue présente le cours SEM 290X au MIT, centré sur la gestion durable de la chaîne d'approvisionnement après la pandémie. Les intervenants expliquent que la pandémie a mis en lumière l'importance des chaînes d'approvisionnement durables et la nécessité pour les entreprises d'adapter leurs stratégies pour inclure des objectifs de durabilité. Le cours couvrira divers aspects allant de la logistique durable à des approches de circulation, tout en impliquant des acteurs externes comme les gouvernements et les ONG.

A retenir

  • 🌍 La durabilité est cruciale pour les chaînes d'approvisionnement.
  • 📅 Le cours commence le 9 novembre.
  • 📚 Des lectures recommandées seront fournies.
  • 🌱 La pandémie a accru la sensibilisation à la durabilité.
  • 🤝 Collaboration avec des acteurs extérieurs comme les ONG est importante.
  • ♻️ Approches circulaires seront abordées.
  • 📈 Objectifs de réduction des émissions de carbone sont essentiels.
  • 💼 Les entreprises doivent équilibrer rentabilité et durabilité.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Jose Velazquez, chercheur au MIT, est l'hôte d'un webinaire de bienvenue pour le cours SC290x sur la gestion durable de la chaîne d'approvisionnement, avec Julia Peterson comme assistante pédagogique. Ils expliquent le contenu et répondent aux questions des futurs étudiants.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Le webinaire vise à donner un aperçu du cours sur la gestion durable de la chaîne d'approvisionnement, dans le contexte actualisé de la crise causée par la pandémie. L'importance croissante des chaînes d'approvisionnement est soulignée, avec une attention particulière à la façon dont elles peuvent répondre aux besoins sociaux et économiques.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Au cours des deux dernières années, la numérisation a transformé les chaînes d'approvisionnement, et la nécessité de rendre les processus plus visibles et agiles a été mise en avant, grâce à des recommandations de spécialistes en logistique.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Un sondage a été effectué sur les objectifs de durabilité des entreprises, révélant que 60% des participants ont répondu affirmativement. Cela souligne la croissance de l'accent mis sur la durabilité dans le monde des affaires, même si 22% ont répondu par la négative.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Un deuxième sondage a révélé que la durabilité environnementale est la dimension d'intérêt prédominante pour les entreprises, avec 67% des votes, soulignant l'importance des enjeux environnementaux dans la stratégie des entreprises.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Le cas d'Amazon et d'autres entreprises ayant des engagements pour réduire leurs émissions de carbone a été évoqué, en soulignant qu'un grand nombre de sociétés ont commencé à prendre des engagements en matière de durabilité.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    La discussion a porté sur la manière dont les entreprises peuvent atteindre leurs objectifs de durabilité tout en respectant leurs objectifs économiques, soulignant la complexité d’atteindre des objectifs de réduction des émissions de carbone à long terme, souvent en gardant les coûts bas et un bon niveau de service.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Le webinaire couvre également les recherches et les innovations menées au MIT en matière de gestion de la chaîne d'approvisionnement durable et comment ces connaissances peuvent être appliquées dans le cadre de cours en ligne.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Les intervenants encouragent une réflexion sur les actions concrètes que les entreprises peuvent entreprendre dès aujourd'hui pour améliorer leur durabilité, en se concentrant sur les décisions opérationnelles et stratégiques dans la gestion de la chaîne d'approvisionnement.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:54:08

    La session se conclut par des remerciements aux participants et la promotion de l'engagement à rejoindre le cours sur la gestion de la chaîne d'approvisionnement durable, avec des opportunités de dialogue et d’apprentissage continu.

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Vidéo Q&R

  • Qui sont les présentateurs du webinaire?

    Les présentateurs sont José Velasquez, chercheur au MIT, et Julia Peterson, assistante chargée de cours.

  • Quel est l'objectif du cours SEM 290X?

    Le cours est axé sur la gestion durable de la chaîne d'approvisionnement.

  • Quand commence le cours?

    Le cours commence le 9 novembre.

  • Quel est le format du cours?

    Le cours est programmé avec des échéances hebdomadaires.

  • Quels sujets seront abordés dans le cours?

    Les sujets incluent les chaînes d'approvisionnement durables, la logistique durable, l'approvisionnement durable et les approches circulaires.

  • Y aura-t-il des lectures recommandées?

    Oui, chaque leçon contiendra des lectures recommandées et des articles supplémentaires.

  • Le cours sera-t-il en ligne?

    Oui, le cours se déroule en ligne avec des interactions virtuelles.

  • Comment s'inscrire au cours?

    Vous pouvez vous inscrire via le lien fourni dans le chat.

  • Le cours aborde-t-il les normes de comptabilité des émissions de gaz à effet de serre?

    Oui, le cours aborde les normes de comptabilité des émissions, notamment à travers des études de cas.

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    foreign
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    my name is Jose Velazquez I'm a research
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    scientist at MIT Center for
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    transportation and Logistics and I'm
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    going to be your host for this welcome
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    webinar for the course edx course sem
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    290x a sustainable Supply Chain
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    management and with me is Julia Peterson
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    Julia
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    hi my name is Julia Peterson I'm the TA
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    of this course so if you enroll in the
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    course I will answer all your questions
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    like technical questions everything else
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    um yeah I'm happy that you're here
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    excellent thank you Yulia so let me just
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    explain how it's going to be I'm gonna
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    share a slide deck and presentation that
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    we have prepared to give you an intro
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    about the content of the course and feel
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    free to just type in the chat any
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    questions comments you you have and we
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    have also with us uh well Julie of
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    course and Camilo Camila is going to
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    also be helping in the chat he's also
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    one of the ctas and uh and then let's uh
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    hope we are able to clarify all your
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    questions and get you also all enrolled
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    this fascinated course that is a an
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    awesome journey to sustainable Supply
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    chains
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    so let me just start now by sharing the
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    slide deck so uh as I said this is a
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    welcome webinar and the idea is to give
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    you a little bit of information
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    why are we launching this course what is
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    the context we are living in the
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    corporate world as well as in in
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    different countries economies and in
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    society and uh and also what's going to
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    be different topics we're going to be
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    covering here so hopefully you will find
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    this very interesting and will join us
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    we will launch this course in just a
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    matter of a couple of weeks so we are
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    very excited about it all right so let
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    me just start with this so first as we
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    all know we are facing a difficult time
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    just uh some countries are facing the
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    post pandemic While others still are
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    struggling with the pandemic and we have
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    observed that this is not just uh
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    something that affected the whole
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    economy but at the same time created a
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    world crisis for Humanity right many of
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    false have faced uh difficulties in our
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    in our home countries and uh and despite
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    all the efforts we have put into growing
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    and trying to mitigate this impact we
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    know that the society has changed and we
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    know also that the conditions have
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    changed and now we we are questioning
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    ourselves whether we should do things
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    differently for the future what are the
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    things that are that corporate
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    corporations corporate world countries
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    Society is going to face in the next 10
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    to 20 30 years from now
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    now we know that this crisis also
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    brought uh something good for those that
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    are in the fields on supply chain which
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    is at least we always knew we were
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    relevant now everybody knows we are
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    relevant and and that actually has been
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    really interesting because uh before it
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    was really hard to explain what uh what
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    are we doing here when we are conducting
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    the research or working in companies in
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    the field uh but in reality now the the
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    flow of materials the flow of
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    information the flow of everything that
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    is happening in the world actually
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    depends entirely on how these Global
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    Supply chains are built and we've been
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    struggling a lot to really understand
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    better understand what is this signaling
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    done by the consumers how we can better
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    predict the needs of of different people
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    and how we can actually better be better
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    prepared in the supply side to really
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    come up with better products and
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    services and design strategies that can
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    that can be more responsive more more
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    agile and also more aligned with what
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    are the needs and the different on
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    certain things that are uh you know in
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    any almost product and service that
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    Alexis in the world
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    you know this is happening we know also
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    that many of the things that have been
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    discussed in the last uh two three years
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    it was even before but it was really
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    emphasized and stress out even more
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    during these years has to do a lot with
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    the digitization right we know that a
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    plenty of organizations started facing
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    different stages of uh of Technology
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    adoption to be able to work in this now
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    more virtual interactive World in which
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    we were not able to really touch each
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    other uh not the product services in the
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    same way that we were doing before or
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    access to the same type of products and
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    services and the ways that we are
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    envisioning how Supply chains are going
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    to be more competitive in the future has
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    to do a lot with some of these
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    recommendations that are uh in in the
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    books of Professor Jeffy the director of
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    the center for transportation
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    transportation and Logistics at MIT
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    which is the boss of of my boss
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    and uh and and he mentioned interesting
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    things related to this uh to this topic
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    how we can achieve in the supply chain
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    more visibility and this has to do with
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    the fact that many of the products and
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    services are coming from places that we
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    haven't identified yet and that means
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    these are potential vulnerabilities not
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    just in terms of risk management but
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    also in terms of sustainability as we
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    see in a moment but there is a lot a
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    huge wave happening also with the
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    automation that is also bringing more
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    more agility the e-commerce and
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    omnichannel strategies and how all these
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    uh different domains are shaping the way
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    that we are accessing to products and
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    services in the field of Supply Chain
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    management so I'm pretty sure that I'm
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    not saying anything new but at least I'm
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    trying just to reflect on uh what makes
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    sense at this stage and why we are doing
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    what we are doing by launching this
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    sustainability course
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    now when we look at uh different sources
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    and in this case I'm just citing the
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    reference of the world economic Forum in
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    one of the service that they launched in
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    2122 which is exactly the moment of uh
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    probably the peak of the pandemic uh so
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    far and one of the key questions asked
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    to different practitioners industry and
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    also policy makers was related to the
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    most severe risk for the next 10 years
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    and what we see here is that there are
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    different categories related to economic
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    environmental geopolitical societal and
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    technological
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    uh the interesting part here is that uh
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    we can see just in the top 10 we see
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    five of them are actually related to
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    environmental which is of course one of
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    the of the main dimensions on
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    sustainability related to The Climate
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    action failure the extreme weather that
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    we have we have also faced that also
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    relates to many different humanitarian
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    challenges the laws in biodiversity and
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    different species that now have gone
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    extinct as well as also the human
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    environmental damage also caused by you
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    know respiratory disease and all this
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    pollution as well as the crisis in terms
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    of the scarcity in natural resources now
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    this is again related to the topic again
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    that we are leaving now with the
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    different disruptions and the different
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    challenges we face as consequence of the
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    pandemic but it's also something that
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    has been adding up for the last 100
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    years or more in which we have
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    discovered how these anthropogenic
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    commissions uh are actually driving
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    climate change and are creating global
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    warming and then actually creating a
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    risk for society uh and also the economy
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    in the way that we operate
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    now we know this sustainable is a Hot
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    Topic and just before starting with this
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    I would like to launch a a couple of
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    polls three questions just to see also
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    what is your perspective on this so let
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    me launch the first one
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    uh
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    relaunch awesome
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    fantastic
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    so the question here is does your
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    company have explicit goals strategies
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    on sustainability
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    now what we are having here is three
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    options we have yes no not short
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    and I'm looking at the results now 60 of
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    uh of participation support 70 now
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    everybody's getting excited with this I
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    will show you in a moment the results
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    let me just end the book but I want to
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    wait until we have a little bit more
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    participation
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    does your company have explicit goals
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    strategies Etc on sustainable
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    all right so I'm gonna wait until we get
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    the 80 participation and then I will I
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    will end the poll
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    all right almost there so let me finish
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    now and share the results okay so we
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    have we have a winner here more than 60
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    61 says uh yes 22 says no and 70 says
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    not sure all right so that's uh a little
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    bit uh expected let me ask now another
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    question so let me go just to understand
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    what are those type of uh of goals
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    if so what dimension of sustainability
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    apart from the economic is your company
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    mostly interested in and again I know
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    that there is always discussions on this
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    which which are the correct Dimensions
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    ESG or others in this case I will just
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    leave it in environmental social and
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    then over which mostly relate to people
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    all right so again I'm gonna wait we
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    have so far 50 of participation
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    and I'm gonna wait a little bit more so
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    far it seems one is winning so the
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    question is if so what dimension of
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    sustainability apart from the economic
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    is your company mostly interested in
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    all right so I believe I'm gonna
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    I'm gonna finish it now so that
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    everybody can see
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    share results now you see
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    environmental seems to be the one that
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    uh companies seem mostly interested in
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    67 social 24 and the other nine percent
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    all right so it seems to steal the
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    environmental sustainability seems to be
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    the most relevant for the companies at
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    least not necessarily for for you or for
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    or for or what is the most relevant it's
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    more mostly related to what companies
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    are saying now let me ask the last
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    question of this poll and let me launch
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    it now
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    does your company or key customers have
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    established clear camera reduction
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    targets for the next 10 20 or 30 years
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    all right so we have again the same
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    options yes no not sure
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    all right we are getting faster in this
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    one this is going to be really
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    interesting because it's not that clear
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    as the other one so we already saw that
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    the majority has either companies or key
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    customers that are concerned about
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    sustainability
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    uh we saw certain environmental
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    sustainability seems to be the most
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    relevant at this stage and and the other
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    is whether the company or a key Customer
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    because we know that there is certain
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    influence that the customers may have
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    in our companies have established carbon
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    reduction targets for the next years all
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    right so we'll finish the poll now and
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    this is almost almost a Time wow so 42
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    uh said yes 35 said no and 22 not sure
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    all right fantastic well thank you so
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    much for answering all of this well this
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    is just in in a way it emphasizes what
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    I'm saying we are just living at the
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    moment of uh of an important uh a
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    post-pandemic or pandemic and different
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    disruptions have caused many challenges
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    create more awareness about the
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    importance of Supply chains and and what
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    it seems to be something that uh is not
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    necessarily related to the economic
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    growth should not be relevant it seems
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    that by the way now plenty of companies
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    are really paying attention close
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    attention to sustainability uh the
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    majority environmental sustainability
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    but also social and we also know that at
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    least in in this poll run with uh with
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    those participants in this webinar half
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    of you are very much aware that uh you
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    have already carbon targets either in
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    your companies or your key customers and
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    and others said no other said not sure
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    now what we see also in the news
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    well we know that in 2019 Amazon started
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    this the climate pledge and started with
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    with them signing for a reduction of
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    carbon emissions and a goal of becoming
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    carbon neutral by 2050.
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    now the interesting part is that already
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    there are 300 companies already across
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    different Industries and different
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    countries that have already also signed
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    a climate ledge and you can see here
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    some of them uh very large from
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    Logistics from consumer package goods
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    from technology from social media
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    companies are making pledges to really
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    reduce their carbon emissions and
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    Achieve those either carbon neutral or
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    relevant significant reductions for the
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    next years in hand with their corporate
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    strategies you know meaning they need
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    still to be competitive in the business
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    achieve their business goals but inside
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    to that also they are committing to
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    reduce their emissions now when we look
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    at also you know in terms of countries
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    and I got the the opportunity to
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    participate in one of the panels here
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    with the Asia Pacific economic operation
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    just a couple of weeks in the new supply
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    chain connectivity framework action plan
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    so it's number three they actually
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    established five different chalk points
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    they call it like these bottlenecks that
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    they need to work on to alleviate and
  • 00:13:17
    and create more uh and improving fluency
  • 00:13:21
    between economies to be able to uh to
  • 00:13:24
    achieve different strategies to become
  • 00:13:26
    not just more competitive but at the
  • 00:13:27
    same time also related to sustainability
  • 00:13:29
    as this fifth priority talks about the
  • 00:13:33
    lack of understanding on the green
  • 00:13:34
    Supply Chain management what are those
  • 00:13:36
    practices and how by building better
  • 00:13:38
    policy
  • 00:13:40
    these economies are able to increase
  • 00:13:42
    pressure for Supply chains to become
  • 00:13:44
    more sustainable
  • 00:13:45
    and again this is another risk that in
  • 00:13:48
    the course we we also discussed from one
  • 00:13:49
    side we know that there is a pressure
  • 00:13:50
    from consumers that can can pay more
  • 00:13:53
    attention to sustainable either products
  • 00:13:55
    and services we know that we have
  • 00:13:56
    different shareholders and investors
  • 00:13:58
    that are also paying a lot of attention
  • 00:14:00
    and pressure we have key customers but
  • 00:14:03
    at the same time we also have policy
  • 00:14:05
    makers that can also in a moment create
  • 00:14:08
    policy that can drive a different way
  • 00:14:10
    how we operate or Supply chains and of
  • 00:14:12
    course these risks are important and
  • 00:14:14
    that's why it's it's key for
  • 00:14:16
    organizations to start paying more
  • 00:14:17
    attention to to these topics on
  • 00:14:19
    sustainable Supply chains
  • 00:14:21
    now let me just start talking about the
  • 00:14:24
    the course on sustainable Supply Chain
  • 00:14:25
    management and the first is this is a
  • 00:14:28
    course that this inspired on the
  • 00:14:29
    in-person course that I teach at MIT
  • 00:14:31
    this is a graduate course that is being
  • 00:14:33
    uh at MIT for uh 10 years uh different
  • 00:14:38
    people have worked and collaborated in
  • 00:14:40
    this one and still in my case when I
  • 00:14:42
    took the lead on this course I've been
  • 00:14:43
    still engaging with different people
  • 00:14:45
    from the industry as well as other
  • 00:14:46
    colleagues at MIT that I will introduce
  • 00:14:48
    in a moment to trying to build content
  • 00:14:50
    to introduce students to what are the
  • 00:14:53
    the foundation to build sustainable
  • 00:14:55
    Supply chains and in this case the
  • 00:14:58
    course is is an introductory course it
  • 00:15:00
    is not the intended to be comprehensive
  • 00:15:02
    but at least create awareness of
  • 00:15:04
    different topics different strategies
  • 00:15:06
    how organizations can start moving
  • 00:15:08
    toward their their own carbon targets
  • 00:15:10
    but at the same time by looking at their
  • 00:15:13
    business goals and and I will show you
  • 00:15:16
    in a moment but the first of course this
  • 00:15:17
    course is inspired by the vision of our
  • 00:15:20
    University
  • 00:15:21
    MIT Massachusetts Institute of
  • 00:15:23
    Technology that has as a core the the
  • 00:15:27
    vision to solve the problems of humanity
  • 00:15:29
    and and we love this fragment
  • 00:15:30
    information we seek to develop in in all
  • 00:15:33
    the community the MIT Community the
  • 00:15:35
    ability and passion to work wisely
  • 00:15:37
    creatively and effectively for the
  • 00:15:39
    betterment of humankind
  • 00:15:40
    so for our sustainability it's a it's a
  • 00:15:42
    it's a problem of humanity and that's
  • 00:15:44
    why we are launching not just the course
  • 00:15:46
    but also disseminating all the knowledge
  • 00:15:49
    that we have acquired in these years by
  • 00:15:51
    developing research on different topics
  • 00:15:54
    on on sustainable Logistics sustainable
  • 00:15:56
    Supply chains and social sustainability
  • 00:15:58
    in sustainable sourcing and different
  • 00:16:00
    topics that you'll see in a moment
  • 00:16:02
    now within the MIT we have the the
  • 00:16:06
    center for transportation and Logistics
  • 00:16:07
    which is as in our Premier Center and
  • 00:16:09
    Logistics the largest Center in terms of
  • 00:16:13
    network with all the skill sensors we
  • 00:16:15
    have in all over the world and our
  • 00:16:16
    Center has a very clear Vision which is
  • 00:16:19
    creating supply chain Innovation and
  • 00:16:21
    driving into the practice this is our
  • 00:16:23
    mission we want to focus again to solve
  • 00:16:25
    the problems of humanity but we look at
  • 00:16:28
    this by by building Innovative research
  • 00:16:31
    that lands into applications for our
  • 00:16:34
    corporate partners and this is one way
  • 00:16:36
    that we see this we have different
  • 00:16:37
    dimensions in research Outreach and
  • 00:16:39
    education but of course the foundation
  • 00:16:41
    of what we do has to do with the
  • 00:16:42
    research and the connection with the
  • 00:16:44
    corporate partners and how this fits or
  • 00:16:47
    different educational programs and of
  • 00:16:49
    course we have the Supply Chain
  • 00:16:50
    management program we have the
  • 00:16:51
    micromasters and Supply Chain management
  • 00:16:53
    some of you probably have already taken
  • 00:16:55
    some of these courses or are alums in
  • 00:16:57
    our courses but per our course acm290x
  • 00:17:00
    is is having the same Foundation station
  • 00:17:03
    inspired by the same approach of
  • 00:17:06
    building Innovation and disseminating
  • 00:17:07
    knowledge that will help you become
  • 00:17:09
    leaders in the field and shape also the
  • 00:17:12
    topic on sustainable Supply Chain
  • 00:17:14
    management in your own organizations
  • 00:17:16
    now we have different research areas as
  • 00:17:18
    you can see related to Technology
  • 00:17:21
    Innovation
  • 00:17:22
    food and Retail humanitarian
  • 00:17:25
    Last Mile Etc
  • 00:17:28
    and of course we have areas on
  • 00:17:30
    sustainability and and in my case I've
  • 00:17:32
    been focusing on sustainable logistics
  • 00:17:33
    for almost 10 years now but you know
  • 00:17:37
    recently we have some changes because
  • 00:17:39
    some of our colleagues have moved to
  • 00:17:40
    different positions so I've been
  • 00:17:42
    overseen now also the rest of the
  • 00:17:44
    sustainability efforts at the center and
  • 00:17:47
    and this is what's going to be also the
  • 00:17:49
    core what's the core of the course that
  • 00:17:51
    we are offering in this sem 290x for for
  • 00:17:53
    all of you now this is just to compare
  • 00:17:57
    the results of the poll we just run a
  • 00:17:59
    moment ago this is just a screenshot of
  • 00:18:01
    the different corporate Partners at the
  • 00:18:03
    center these are our partners that uh
  • 00:18:05
    help us you know Drive the The
  • 00:18:07
    Innovation and many of them uh is
  • 00:18:10
    sponsor research projects sponsor thesis
  • 00:18:12
    caps and projects with their Mastery
  • 00:18:14
    students and we've seen a huge
  • 00:18:15
    increasing wave of type of projects they
  • 00:18:18
    are now sponsoring related to
  • 00:18:20
    sustainability a lot actually by in
  • 00:18:23
    seven years that I've been at MIT uh is
  • 00:18:25
    the first time that I've seen so many
  • 00:18:27
    probably half of them related to
  • 00:18:28
    sustainability
  • 00:18:29
    now in February January I was invited to
  • 00:18:33
    give a presentation to some of the
  • 00:18:34
    partners to present just a research
  • 00:18:36
    brief on the different topics we are
  • 00:18:38
    doing on sustainable Logistics and then
  • 00:18:40
    I actually started with the same
  • 00:18:41
    questions I started this uh this webinar
  • 00:18:43
    I asked well first does your company
  • 00:18:45
    have explicit goals and strategies on
  • 00:18:47
    sustainability
  • 00:18:49
    now look at the answers
  • 00:18:51
    uh I believe it's a little bit more skew
  • 00:18:53
    but it's still quite similar the vast
  • 00:18:55
    majority still is uh is very much aware
  • 00:18:57
    about the importance of sustainability
  • 00:18:59
    so yes no I'm not sure then I asked the
  • 00:19:02
    question again which dimension a
  • 00:19:03
    sustainability apart from the economic
  • 00:19:05
    and it looks again quite similar to what
  • 00:19:07
    uh you all also responded in these polls
  • 00:19:10
    the majority seems to be at this stage
  • 00:19:12
    most interested in environmental
  • 00:19:13
    although we know that social is quite
  • 00:19:15
    relevant it's it probably this stage not
  • 00:19:18
    as not as taking a serious as
  • 00:19:20
    environmental but we know it's very
  • 00:19:21
    important and creates also more
  • 00:19:24
    vulnerabilities in the supply chain so
  • 00:19:25
    we don't know how it's going to be in
  • 00:19:27
    the next years
  • 00:19:28
    but now the question uh to to the extent
  • 00:19:31
    of uh the current reduction targets for
  • 00:19:33
    the next 10 20 years 30 years then here
  • 00:19:36
    again we saw similar behavior in the
  • 00:19:38
    poll with you we saw half half which is
  • 00:19:40
    also interesting but in this case we saw
  • 00:19:43
    that actually the majority that we're
  • 00:19:44
    having or at least commenting on their
  • 00:19:46
    Incorporated strategy having
  • 00:19:48
    sustainability criteria there they also
  • 00:19:51
    have seen that they either their
  • 00:19:53
    customers or themselves have made a
  • 00:19:55
    pledge or achieving certain goals for
  • 00:19:57
    the next 10 20 or 30 years
  • 00:19:59
    now how to achieve these carbon targets
  • 00:20:02
    while meeting business goals and that's
  • 00:20:04
    uh that's the key question right it's
  • 00:20:06
    not trivial but of course the important
  • 00:20:08
    thing is to First be aware that this is
  • 00:20:10
    what we want to achieve to to just claim
  • 00:20:12
    that you want to achieve as a company uh
  • 00:20:15
    some goals and sustainability but
  • 00:20:16
    putting at risk your own business from
  • 00:20:19
    the economic perspective is not
  • 00:20:21
    sustainable so the idea is how we can
  • 00:20:23
    look at this from a more systemic
  • 00:20:25
    comprehensive way in in which we can
  • 00:20:27
    provide solutions that are more holistic
  • 00:20:29
    and help the company also track their
  • 00:20:31
    performance in the all criteria and make
  • 00:20:34
    strategic decisions to that end and just
  • 00:20:36
    to do this I would like just to explain
  • 00:20:38
    a little bit more about the importance
  • 00:20:40
    of how the path is built to achieve this
  • 00:20:42
    carbon goal and this is actually a chart
  • 00:20:44
    inspired by a nice conversation coming
  • 00:20:46
    with a PhD student from our Center a
  • 00:20:48
    Uranus that is also working on these
  • 00:20:50
    topics on sustainability and and in this
  • 00:20:52
    what you see here is in the in the
  • 00:20:54
    horizontal axis you have the years you
  • 00:20:57
    know from today up to 24 40 could be
  • 00:21:00
    2050 but the different years and we know
  • 00:21:03
    we have also in the vertical axis the
  • 00:21:05
    CO2 emissions in which we have certain
  • 00:21:07
    animations that you have already
  • 00:21:08
    identified in your current carbon
  • 00:21:10
    footprinting or your greenhouse gas
  • 00:21:12
    inventory you have conducted and what's
  • 00:21:14
    your target what you're intending to
  • 00:21:15
    achieve in the next years
  • 00:21:17
    so the idea here is that everybody is
  • 00:21:19
    very much aware that this has to do with
  • 00:21:20
    that investment in technology so we know
  • 00:21:22
    what we want to we want to make an
  • 00:21:24
    investment in renewable energies in
  • 00:21:26
    different equipment in electric vehicles
  • 00:21:28
    or different hydrogen Technologies so we
  • 00:21:31
    know there is something related to that
  • 00:21:32
    that is going to help us move material
  • 00:21:35
    in the supply chain in a more
  • 00:21:36
    sustainable way
  • 00:21:38
    now I'm just talking about environmental
  • 00:21:40
    sustainability in this case but if we
  • 00:21:42
    have that moment in which the technology
  • 00:21:44
    will become more affordable of course
  • 00:21:45
    the discussions between now shippers and
  • 00:21:48
    carriers is always related to this from
  • 00:21:49
    one side the shippers are pushing the
  • 00:21:51
    carriers to go for this technology and
  • 00:21:53
    the carriers are claiming why you are
  • 00:21:55
    not putting more money are you willing
  • 00:21:56
    to pay more and this is always usually
  • 00:21:58
    the elephant in the room in almost any
  • 00:22:00
    conversation presentation I'm invited to
  • 00:22:02
    discuss now the way that companies are
  • 00:22:04
    seeing is that in some of the incentives
  • 00:22:05
    either by the government or just the
  • 00:22:07
    economy are going to take this you're
  • 00:22:09
    going to achieve this technology that
  • 00:22:11
    becomes more affordable and at this
  • 00:22:13
    stage you're gonna as a company starts
  • 00:22:15
    squeezing deficiencies to achieve this
  • 00:22:16
    reduction of carbon emissions and then
  • 00:22:18
    achieve your carbon Target by either
  • 00:22:20
    2040 or whatever is the year you are
  • 00:22:22
    establishing this goal now it could be
  • 00:22:24
    that once the technology is more
  • 00:22:25
    affordable there is better ways to
  • 00:22:27
    actually squeeze those efficiencies and
  • 00:22:28
    become aware not faster but at least
  • 00:22:31
    with less emissions
  • 00:22:33
    in the path to get to 2040 you know as a
  • 00:22:36
    point in which you're going to achieve
  • 00:22:37
    your carbon Target
  • 00:22:39
    now this works very well but what we
  • 00:22:41
    argue is that there are ways in which
  • 00:22:43
    you can start establishing some quick
  • 00:22:45
    wins now to start reducing the missions
  • 00:22:48
    even prior to this adoption of
  • 00:22:50
    technology that is going to happen
  • 00:22:51
    either when you know different
  • 00:22:53
    Investments are done and once you get
  • 00:22:56
    the affordability you're gonna probably
  • 00:22:58
    achieve it even in more a straight line
  • 00:22:59
    to be able to achieve this this
  • 00:23:01
    reduction now make no mistake all of
  • 00:23:04
    them achieve the same carbon Target but
  • 00:23:06
    that's why we say the park is more
  • 00:23:07
    important than the goal because the
  • 00:23:09
    difference here is first by focusing on
  • 00:23:10
    this area that only can be achieved by
  • 00:23:13
    these quick wins that is related to
  • 00:23:15
    decisions we can make at this stage if
  • 00:23:18
    we don't do it this is going to be a
  • 00:23:19
    cumulative amount of emissions that is
  • 00:23:21
    going to definitely have an impact in
  • 00:23:22
    climate change and the interesting part
  • 00:23:24
    is that we tend to discuss more about
  • 00:23:25
    the current Target instead of discussing
  • 00:23:29
    the path that actually makes a whole
  • 00:23:31
    difference of what's going to be the
  • 00:23:32
    effect for the for the environment and
  • 00:23:34
    in the in in general for society and the
  • 00:23:36
    planet now how to do it we just put this
  • 00:23:39
    into a impact effort chart and what we
  • 00:23:41
    argue here is that there are of course
  • 00:23:43
    different efforts we can we can have but
  • 00:23:46
    if those efforts uh either is is there
  • 00:23:49
    or a lot only bring a limited impact we
  • 00:23:53
    shouldn't waste time on those because
  • 00:23:55
    the time is really relevant at this
  • 00:23:57
    stage is much more important to focus on
  • 00:23:59
    those that have high impact and of
  • 00:24:01
    course the one that has the highest is
  • 00:24:02
    investment on the equipment that we know
  • 00:24:04
    this if we change energy sources the
  • 00:24:06
    network the supply and we are starting
  • 00:24:08
    looking at all this investment for the
  • 00:24:10
    next years five ten years this is the
  • 00:24:12
    one that definitely is going to have a
  • 00:24:14
    significant amount of reduction in in
  • 00:24:15
    the carbon animations which in turn is
  • 00:24:17
    also going to help companies achieve
  • 00:24:19
    their carbon targets but as I mentioned
  • 00:24:21
    before there are something that we call
  • 00:24:22
    the quick wins which is related to the
  • 00:24:25
    decisions in the supply chain at this
  • 00:24:27
    stage this has to do a lot with an
  • 00:24:29
    example that I also mentioned in the
  • 00:24:30
    course which is when we tend to have
  • 00:24:32
    problems with certain
  • 00:24:34
    components and I and I use the example
  • 00:24:36
    of having an organ for instance if I
  • 00:24:38
    have a problem with a kidney that uh
  • 00:24:40
    thanks God not not that I know of but
  • 00:24:43
    imagine that there is a problem with the
  • 00:24:45
    kidney and then you say well what's the
  • 00:24:45
    a problem we'll just have a kidney
  • 00:24:47
    transplant and then make the kid even
  • 00:24:48
    stronger better so that you never have a
  • 00:24:50
    problem with your kidney well that's one
  • 00:24:52
    way to do it the other way could be that
  • 00:24:55
    maybe I should stop drinking so much
  • 00:24:56
    alcohol or maybe I should drink more
  • 00:24:58
    water or maybe I should do more
  • 00:24:59
    exercises so there are certain decisions
  • 00:25:02
    that are going to drive the performance
  • 00:25:04
    of a hot spot in the supply chain and
  • 00:25:07
    that's what makes a difference having a
  • 00:25:08
    specific Warehouse that has high
  • 00:25:10
    emissions or specific Transportation
  • 00:25:12
    Lane that has high emissions this might
  • 00:25:14
    be a consequence of an inventory policy
  • 00:25:16
    you have in place of a Mis of a very
  • 00:25:19
    large problem in the error with the
  • 00:25:21
    forecast or could be related to other
  • 00:25:24
    strategies in sourcing so things that
  • 00:25:26
    are related to other parts of the supply
  • 00:25:27
    chain may actually drive the rest of the
  • 00:25:30
    hot spots in the supply chain and that's
  • 00:25:32
    the secret not to just identified hot
  • 00:25:34
    spots but identify what are those causes
  • 00:25:36
    by looking at the supply chain decisions
  • 00:25:38
    and this is something that we emphasize
  • 00:25:40
    a lot also in this course not just by
  • 00:25:42
    looking at what could be an important
  • 00:25:44
    investment but also looking at what you
  • 00:25:46
    can do at this time in the organization
  • 00:25:47
    to really help the company achieve those
  • 00:25:49
    carbon targets
  • 00:25:51
    so now we look at different approaches
  • 00:25:53
    and we liked uh you know this this chart
  • 00:25:55
    in which from one side we still like the
  • 00:25:57
    idea of squeezing for efficiencies in
  • 00:25:59
    the supply chain and Logistics we look
  • 00:26:01
    at examples using data analytics and
  • 00:26:04
    machine learning different type of
  • 00:26:06
    mapping and and measurements so that we
  • 00:26:09
    can really find a optimized operations
  • 00:26:12
    in the supply chain that can balance
  • 00:26:14
    both
  • 00:26:15
    business goals are still rate the
  • 00:26:17
    service level minimization of cost at
  • 00:26:20
    the same time also reduction in carbon
  • 00:26:21
    emissions so we translate many of these
  • 00:26:23
    things we are discussing into the
  • 00:26:25
    operational level and that's something
  • 00:26:27
    again organizations in in our experience
  • 00:26:29
    have a struggle with because while they
  • 00:26:31
    have this Cooperative strategies with
  • 00:26:33
    sustainability when when we discuss with
  • 00:26:36
    either supply chain planners or
  • 00:26:38
    schedulers or people that are making
  • 00:26:39
    decisions they they don't know what
  • 00:26:42
    exactly the impact of their decisions in
  • 00:26:44
    these strategies and there are ways to
  • 00:26:46
    really build this type of metrics to
  • 00:26:48
    help those those those people in the
  • 00:26:49
    organization to achieve those so we're
  • 00:26:51
    in favor of that but at the same time we
  • 00:26:53
    are also in favor of growing the supply
  • 00:26:55
    capacity by looking at also the customer
  • 00:26:57
    and consumer side and this is also again
  • 00:26:59
    another part that is very unique in our
  • 00:27:02
    course we look at how we can invoke
  • 00:27:04
    consumers and customers into our
  • 00:27:06
    sustainability strategies and by doing
  • 00:27:08
    this we can grow the capacity of the way
  • 00:27:10
    that we Supply in in really large large
  • 00:27:13
    amount and the and the savings are many
  • 00:27:15
    times as significant and if and if the
  • 00:27:18
    company had made some investments in the
  • 00:27:20
    equipment as as big as that but again at
  • 00:27:23
    this stage many customers consumers get
  • 00:27:25
    access to products and services and they
  • 00:27:27
    have no idea what is their footprint of
  • 00:27:29
    that decision and whether a different
  • 00:27:30
    way in their behavior May can actually
  • 00:27:32
    help the company achieve those
  • 00:27:34
    sustainability strategies
  • 00:27:37
    so the content
  • 00:27:39
    now enough of all these conversations I
  • 00:27:42
    hope that you get a sense of the things
  • 00:27:43
    that we're going to be discussing I
  • 00:27:44
    think we're going to be doing in general
  • 00:27:45
    we have a course as I said this is a
  • 00:27:47
    half term course at MIT which means it's
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    only seven weeks it's a short course but
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    also deep in content is going to run
  • 00:27:55
    from November 9th to January 17 next
  • 00:27:59
    year and we have seven main modules we
  • 00:28:02
    start with introduction to sustainable
  • 00:28:03
    Supply chains in which we discuss some
  • 00:28:05
    of the basic concepts as well as the
  • 00:28:07
    business implications we continue with
  • 00:28:09
    the environmental hotspots which is key
  • 00:28:11
    you get what you measure so we are going
  • 00:28:13
    to discuss different measurements you're
  • 00:28:15
    gonna do exercises of conducting some
  • 00:28:17
    common food printing in Supply chains
  • 00:28:19
    and using that information to establish
  • 00:28:21
    some decisions then we're going to spend
  • 00:28:23
    a couple of modules three and four to
  • 00:28:26
    discuss topics on sustainable Logistics
  • 00:28:27
    and this is mainly my my research
  • 00:28:29
    expertise discussing routing
  • 00:28:31
    Transportation Network design affiliate
  • 00:28:34
    composition and also the topic of
  • 00:28:36
    involving consumers into this decision
  • 00:28:38
    making
  • 00:28:39
    then later we are going to move to
  • 00:28:40
    sustainable sourcing and for this one
  • 00:28:42
    I'm going to invite my colleague Dr Dave
  • 00:28:44
    Correll the lead of the sustainability
  • 00:28:47
    is survey that we have launched and
  • 00:28:49
    probably some of you have already
  • 00:28:50
    responded it or at least seen the the
  • 00:28:52
    amazing insights that he has built with
  • 00:28:55
    this uh
  • 00:28:56
    interesting approach and he's also an
  • 00:29:00
    expert on procurement so he's going to
  • 00:29:01
    come and discuss with us some of these
  • 00:29:03
    topics on sustainable sourcing and I'm
  • 00:29:04
    gonna complement with uh something
  • 00:29:06
    related to Green inventory strategies
  • 00:29:09
    then later we're having week six uh ever
  • 00:29:11
    Ponce doctor of a Ponce which is the
  • 00:29:13
    executive director of the micromasters
  • 00:29:15
    in Supply Chain management as well as
  • 00:29:16
    the lead on Omni Channel distribution
  • 00:29:18
    strategies at the center and she's going
  • 00:29:20
    to discuss the topic of circular Supply
  • 00:29:21
    chains as you know this is a key topic
  • 00:29:23
    very fashionable all the discussions of
  • 00:29:27
    the closed loop Supply chains reverse
  • 00:29:28
    Logistics she's been doing research on
  • 00:29:30
    this for more than 10 years and it's
  • 00:29:32
    going to come and share some of these
  • 00:29:33
    insights also related to the e-commerce
  • 00:29:35
    context
  • 00:29:37
    and last but not least the topic in last
  • 00:29:39
    week of improving the social performance
  • 00:29:41
    in Supply chains this is delivered by
  • 00:29:43
    our colleague Dr Alexis Bateman which is
  • 00:29:46
    uh also a research affiliate at the
  • 00:29:48
    center as well as also our lead
  • 00:29:50
    practitioner in Amazon web services and
  • 00:29:53
    she's gonna actually she actually was
  • 00:29:54
    the director of sustainable Supply
  • 00:29:56
    chains and I have to say The Mastermind
  • 00:29:58
    behind the course which she tried to
  • 00:30:00
    launch it and then later uh I Heritage
  • 00:30:03
    from from her and I'm very happy that
  • 00:30:05
    she still keeps the engagement with us
  • 00:30:07
    and is going to deliver this topic that
  • 00:30:10
    also involves plenty of the research she
  • 00:30:12
    has conducted for the last uh 10 years
  • 00:30:15
    also at the center
  • 00:30:16
    so this is a plan just to give you some
  • 00:30:19
    screenshots of the things we are going
  • 00:30:20
    to use light board and discuss some of
  • 00:30:22
    these ideas we are going to also do some
  • 00:30:24
    simulators in which you are going to
  • 00:30:26
    play to make decisions you know in the
  • 00:30:28
    either monthly or weekly basis and we
  • 00:30:30
    are going to make comparisons with the
  • 00:30:32
    rest of the of the class to also see
  • 00:30:34
    what is your performance in achieving
  • 00:30:36
    carbon targets but at the same time
  • 00:30:37
    keeping fill rate and keeping also cost
  • 00:30:40
    low
  • 00:30:41
    we also going to have Dave Correll as I
  • 00:30:43
    said discussing this sustainable
  • 00:30:44
    sourcing and different strategies and
  • 00:30:47
    alsoever in order circular circularity
  • 00:30:49
    circular Supply chains as I said
  • 00:30:51
    uh we also have Alexis as I said
  • 00:30:53
    discussing responsible Supply chains
  • 00:30:55
    which by the way she also LED that
  • 00:30:57
    initiative at the center and combining
  • 00:30:59
    all these you know we are intending to
  • 00:31:01
    provide really an amazing learning
  • 00:31:03
    experience for all of you that enroll to
  • 00:31:05
    the course
  • 00:31:06
    so these are the instructors that are
  • 00:31:08
    going to be with you
  • 00:31:09
    um Jose Velasquez as I said reset
  • 00:31:11
    scientists and I'm the course lead but
  • 00:31:13
    also my colleagues Alexis Bateman Dave
  • 00:31:15
    Correll evapon said that are going to be
  • 00:31:18
    close teaching also with you with me and
  • 00:31:20
    teaching you and uh and also helping in
  • 00:31:24
    this interaction with all of you we also
  • 00:31:26
    have the sign up of uh of our community
  • 00:31:28
    teaching assistants a team of uh eight
  • 00:31:32
    brilliant students that also took my
  • 00:31:34
    class in Solomon in person class got an
  • 00:31:36
    A or an A plus and they are are also
  • 00:31:39
    willing lead practitioners in different
  • 00:31:41
    fields that are going to be taking part
  • 00:31:43
    of the Forum discussions and if they are
  • 00:31:45
    also attending this this call uh deeply
  • 00:31:48
    grateful with all of you for doing this
  • 00:31:50
    and uh and last of course as I said
  • 00:31:53
    Julia Peterson that already introduced
  • 00:31:55
    herself she's being also instrumental in
  • 00:31:58
    all this work for the course uh helping
  • 00:32:01
    a lot in following up and planning all
  • 00:32:03
    the deliveries that we have for for this
  • 00:32:05
    interesting course and we are getting
  • 00:32:07
    ready she's going to be your your ta and
  • 00:32:10
    and myself also taking part of all these
  • 00:32:12
    discussions but uh with that I say thank
  • 00:32:15
    you if you are interested please uh
  • 00:32:17
    either in the chat I'm sure we already
  • 00:32:19
    have share or not we are going to be
  • 00:32:20
    sharing the the course link so that you
  • 00:32:22
    can enroll if you haven't done and you
  • 00:32:24
    can also reach out to us you know in our
  • 00:32:26
    either emails personal emails and also
  • 00:32:30
    sustainable.mit.w which is the the
  • 00:32:34
    website or for of our research lab
  • 00:32:37
    and that's all I have to say and now we
  • 00:32:40
    are ready to answer some some questions
  • 00:32:43
    or comments that you may have thank you
  • 00:32:44
    so much for your attention
  • 00:32:50
    all right so if you see any comments in
  • 00:32:53
    the chat uh please let me know and then
  • 00:32:55
    we can we can start
  • 00:32:56
    having fun yeah so we have a few
  • 00:32:59
    questions in our q a
  • 00:33:01
    um section so the question is
  • 00:33:04
    um is carb neutral good enough shouldn't
  • 00:33:06
    they be pledging to achieve Net Zero
  • 00:33:10
    uh of course this is an uh this is an
  • 00:33:12
    interesting question ideally of course
  • 00:33:14
    we want the organizations to to be pure
  • 00:33:18
    uh carbon neutral meaning uh avoiding as
  • 00:33:21
    much as possible the carbon dioxide
  • 00:33:23
    which is probably as as you know a big
  • 00:33:25
    discussion at the moment so uh at this
  • 00:33:28
    stage without carbon upsets is is
  • 00:33:30
    practically impossible to really achieve
  • 00:33:32
    uh a net zero right this is the reality
  • 00:33:35
    because we don't have necessarily the
  • 00:33:37
    technology and almost any economic
  • 00:33:39
    activity has in in a way certain impact
  • 00:33:41
    for the environment but that doesn't
  • 00:33:43
    mean that that goal should be erased
  • 00:33:46
    that this should be a name a long aim
  • 00:33:49
    but in the meantime what we should
  • 00:33:51
    probably try to enforce with the
  • 00:33:53
    organization is that they should achieve
  • 00:33:55
    a as much reduction as possible and try
  • 00:33:58
    to minimize the amount of carbon apps
  • 00:34:00
    that they have in their strategies but
  • 00:34:02
    this is an interesting point and I
  • 00:34:03
    believe uh of course once you are also
  • 00:34:06
    in your company or yourself now it's
  • 00:34:08
    important that you keep that conviction
  • 00:34:10
    to really drive a real change to really
  • 00:34:12
    help environment on society
  • 00:34:16
    awesome I hope that covered that
  • 00:34:18
    question we have another question from
  • 00:34:20
    Igor who will will be the course as
  • 00:34:23
    pre-required for SCM Blended program
  • 00:34:26
    uh not yet right no there is no evidence
  • 00:34:28
    that that's going to happen of course
  • 00:34:31
    have been discussing with with both Eva
  • 00:34:33
    Ponce and also Chris kaplies the
  • 00:34:35
    executive director of the of the center
  • 00:34:37
    about this idea but uh so far the course
  • 00:34:40
    is is is a society even though it's
  • 00:34:42
    inspired by the content in the
  • 00:34:44
    micromasters on different courses it's
  • 00:34:46
    not part of the micromasters and at this
  • 00:34:48
    stage we don't see when this is going to
  • 00:34:50
    be the case but uh but that doesn't mean
  • 00:34:52
    that the course is not as relevant it's
  • 00:34:55
    as relevant as uh because it's also part
  • 00:34:57
    of the key electives for the master's
  • 00:35:00
    program in Supply Chain management and
  • 00:35:01
    if you are a blended hopefully you will
  • 00:35:03
    take the course also in person
  • 00:35:05
    awesome we have another question from
  • 00:35:08
    Scott he asked when considering
  • 00:35:11
    emissions intensity we must consider
  • 00:35:13
    weight not just distance like a typical
  • 00:35:15
    milp when calculating routing will this
  • 00:35:18
    course provide instruction on how to do
  • 00:35:20
    this modeling
  • 00:35:22
    this is actually something we cover very
  • 00:35:24
    comprehensively definitely I am I am
  • 00:35:27
    against the idea of uh of just arguing
  • 00:35:30
    that the reduction of miles or reduction
  • 00:35:31
    of distance implies reduction of CO2
  • 00:35:33
    emissions in fact in the class I always
  • 00:35:35
    make this joke that all the students
  • 00:35:38
    should repeat themselves you know before
  • 00:35:40
    starting the class in in Green Logistics
  • 00:35:42
    shorter distances not the salimin less
  • 00:35:44
    CO2 emissions and then I still repeat it
  • 00:35:46
    again if you go for a date if you are
  • 00:35:48
    with your family just repeat it right
  • 00:35:50
    because this is true as you are just
  • 00:35:52
    pointing out Scott weight matters a lot
  • 00:35:54
    the topographic conditions of the of the
  • 00:35:56
    road also matters speed matters so when
  • 00:35:59
    you combine all these conditions you may
  • 00:36:00
    actually have plenty of routes in which
  • 00:36:03
    um you you may actually have increased
  • 00:36:05
    in the distance but actually achieve
  • 00:36:08
    reductions of fuel consumption CO2
  • 00:36:10
    emissions and we we definitely look at
  • 00:36:12
    these models we show some of the of the
  • 00:36:14
    modeling behind scenes but as I said
  • 00:36:16
    before this is a an introductory course
  • 00:36:18
    you may get knowledge sufficient
  • 00:36:20
    knowledge to really follow up on this
  • 00:36:22
    and and look for the right references
  • 00:36:23
    understand what are the main drivers and
  • 00:36:26
    and if you are already good in analytics
  • 00:36:28
    it's uh an optimization it's very likely
  • 00:36:31
    you will be able to make implementations
  • 00:36:33
    in your company but this is something I
  • 00:36:35
    definitely spent uh sufficient amount of
  • 00:36:38
    time to really discuss these insights
  • 00:36:40
    thank you for bringing this up
  • 00:36:42
    thanks
  • 00:36:44
    um Mr gonna be self-paced or scheduled
  • 00:36:46
    on weekly deadlines
  • 00:36:48
    uh it's going to be scheduled and so far
  • 00:36:51
    we are not going to go on demand like
  • 00:36:52
    the securex so we'll see you as the
  • 00:36:55
    first time we are launching it so we
  • 00:36:56
    want to really stay close and we know
  • 00:36:58
    that uh sorry I know that in the course
  • 00:37:02
    we are going to also cross some some
  • 00:37:04
    festivities and we are going to also be
  • 00:37:06
    mindful of that and provide some uh some
  • 00:37:09
    weeks for you to work but we are going
  • 00:37:10
    to stay very close and our idea is that
  • 00:37:12
    we can keep a very open interaction and
  • 00:37:14
    follow up with all the all the all the
  • 00:37:16
    students that that enrolled
  • 00:37:18
    okay thank you for the question
  • 00:37:21
    um another question from Jorge Moreno he
  • 00:37:24
    asks I said sorry
  • 00:37:26
    I'm not so sure how to pronounce it
  • 00:37:28
    correctly and you kind of look in the
  • 00:37:30
    case Moreno I think so yeah oh nice
  • 00:37:34
    she's a student what's his former
  • 00:37:35
    student of mine yeah go ahead oh okay
  • 00:37:37
    that makes sense
  • 00:37:39
    um he asked I saw Kinesis as a sponsor
  • 00:37:42
    what examples of sustainability targets
  • 00:37:45
    involvement can software companies have
  • 00:37:48
    ah what was a question that can access
  • 00:37:49
    is sponsoring I didn't get the question
  • 00:37:51
    yes I saw can access as a sponsor what
  • 00:37:54
    examples of sustainability targets
  • 00:37:56
    involvement can software companies have
  • 00:38:00
    uh there are plenty of examples uh but
  • 00:38:03
    probably Jorge you uh uh would like to
  • 00:38:06
    know that we can access we are we are
  • 00:38:08
    also talking very closely to uh to bring
  • 00:38:10
    some different ideas related to uh
  • 00:38:13
    translating those sustainability
  • 00:38:15
    strategies into the uh the planning
  • 00:38:18
    level I know we are interested in in
  • 00:38:20
    helping those that are doing demand
  • 00:38:22
    planning inventory planning to really
  • 00:38:24
    get information about how their
  • 00:38:26
    decisions affect their metrics on on
  • 00:38:28
    sustainability how they either
  • 00:38:30
    contribute or not and those decisions in
  • 00:38:32
    general are going to really drive a lot
  • 00:38:33
    of behavior at least this is what we are
  • 00:38:35
    expecting so we are actually having a
  • 00:38:37
    plenty of conversation conversations can
  • 00:38:38
    have this is a it's a great partner and
  • 00:38:40
    uh yeah we look forward to seeing this
  • 00:38:42
    this collaboration thank you for your
  • 00:38:43
    question okay nice to to say hi to you
  • 00:38:46
    so awesome we have another question from
  • 00:38:50
    Jean Francois I think it's a French name
  • 00:38:53
    I hope I pronounced it the correct way
  • 00:38:55
    um and I can maybe even answer that one
  • 00:38:57
    uh it is what is the deadline to enroll
  • 00:38:59
    to the verified track of the course
  • 00:39:01
    Josue do you mind if I answer that
  • 00:39:03
    question
  • 00:39:04
    so it's the 30th of November so the
  • 00:39:08
    first week
  • 00:39:09
    um you won't have any like deadlines any
  • 00:39:11
    homework and then the uh second and the
  • 00:39:14
    third week you have um lectures and
  • 00:39:16
    after the second week you can enroll on
  • 00:39:19
    the verified tracks you can have a look
  • 00:39:21
    at the lectures first enroll free and if
  • 00:39:24
    you like it you can enroll to the
  • 00:39:25
    verified track
  • 00:39:27
    um yeah I hope that answers that
  • 00:39:28
    question
  • 00:39:29
    uh we have another question from Oscar
  • 00:39:32
    it's does the course covers the
  • 00:39:34
    different standards to do a greenhouse
  • 00:39:36
    gas emissions inventories
  • 00:39:39
    is some of them right it's a good a good
  • 00:39:41
    question but some of them as you know
  • 00:39:42
    there are plenty of different standards
  • 00:39:44
    okay so we uh for when we do for
  • 00:39:47
    instance the exercise of the carbon
  • 00:39:48
    footprinting and the supply chain which
  • 00:39:49
    we are looking at case study uh written
  • 00:39:52
    by Professor L solivati from MIT and
  • 00:39:55
    also Dr Edgar Blanco what we do is that
  • 00:39:58
    we we look at the different entities in
  • 00:40:00
    a supply chain that is having operations
  • 00:40:02
    in Asia in the US and the idea is to by
  • 00:40:06
    using uh the greenhouse gas protocol we
  • 00:40:09
    we teach how to do discount footprinting
  • 00:40:11
    now what once we we look at that once we
  • 00:40:15
    are discussing the sustainable
  • 00:40:16
    transportation we spent a little bit
  • 00:40:18
    more time discussing other standards for
  • 00:40:19
    instance we we compare glac framework
  • 00:40:21
    which is you know the the most widely
  • 00:40:23
    used Transportation methodology into
  • 00:40:26
    estimate emissions uh also with
  • 00:40:28
    admission factors from the greenhouse
  • 00:40:30
    gas protocol we may use also defra we
  • 00:40:33
    also use NTM from Europe and the idea is
  • 00:40:35
    to uh to discuss how the accuracy of
  • 00:40:39
    these estimations may may actually drive
  • 00:40:42
    a correct or wrong Supply Chain
  • 00:40:44
    management decision so we spend time on
  • 00:40:47
    that and we make some recommendations
  • 00:40:48
    but as I said just to discuss exactly
  • 00:40:51
    how you're going to implement all of
  • 00:40:52
    this with following completely as
  • 00:40:54
    standard it might be a little bit beyond
  • 00:40:56
    the scope but again with that topic is
  • 00:40:59
    very likely that the participant will be
  • 00:41:01
    able to to explore that on their own
  • 00:41:05
    awesome thanks Jose
  • 00:41:07
    um another question from Teddy um I
  • 00:41:09
    think he has done also the micromasters
  • 00:41:11
    in SCM yes
  • 00:41:14
    um the concept of sustainability SCM and
  • 00:41:17
    the sustainable STM report is the same
  • 00:41:19
    that is used in the course question mark
  • 00:41:21
    thanks
  • 00:41:24
    the sustainability survey is not that
  • 00:41:28
    it's having a specific as far as I
  • 00:41:30
    understand right if not they've will
  • 00:41:32
    probably kill me but but as far as I
  • 00:41:34
    understand it's more like getting the
  • 00:41:36
    insights from the practitioners what do
  • 00:41:38
    they understand by by looking at the
  • 00:41:40
    definition of sustainability right so
  • 00:41:42
    this is this is more more that rather
  • 00:41:44
    than saying we know what is the right
  • 00:41:45
    definition
  • 00:41:46
    so the way that we see it in the course
  • 00:41:48
    is that we embrace all the definitions
  • 00:41:50
    uh particularly what we do is we focus
  • 00:41:53
    more on on the actions as we said in an
  • 00:41:56
    entire line of the course we try to
  • 00:41:57
    avoid the conversation whether this is a
  • 00:41:59
    pure you know strong sustainability
  • 00:42:01
    approach for a company or a weak
  • 00:42:03
    sustainability or whether the company is
  • 00:42:05
    having uh the sustainability as a
  • 00:42:07
    business strategy or is more like you
  • 00:42:09
    know part of their Essence in their
  • 00:42:10
    culture we we discuss these things to
  • 00:42:12
    create awareness that this exists but we
  • 00:42:14
    immediately move to to the majority of
  • 00:42:16
    the organizations that are facing the
  • 00:42:18
    problem of saying okay whether I believe
  • 00:42:20
    in this or not now I'm here I have a
  • 00:42:22
    current Target I have a a challenge now
  • 00:42:25
    I need to do something about it now we
  • 00:42:27
    we embrace the definition of
  • 00:42:28
    sustainability even though we spend most
  • 00:42:30
    of the time discussing environmental
  • 00:42:31
    sustainability and the reason is because
  • 00:42:33
    the same as in the service it seems the
  • 00:42:35
    one that companies are mostly interested
  • 00:42:37
    in at this stage but we also spend time
  • 00:42:39
    on social you know particularly with
  • 00:42:42
    their or expert on this Alexis Bateman
  • 00:42:44
    and the economic side is always in the
  • 00:42:46
    side of the discussions so in a way we
  • 00:42:48
    are keeping you know a general
  • 00:42:50
    definition of sustainability in the
  • 00:42:52
    course that this is pretty much practice
  • 00:42:55
    oriented and this is how we we wanted to
  • 00:42:57
    keep it so hopefully this answers your
  • 00:42:59
    question and hopefully you feel excited
  • 00:43:01
    to to join us
  • 00:43:03
    perfect
  • 00:43:04
    uh we have a lot more questions so let's
  • 00:43:07
    go on with those
  • 00:43:09
    um a question from Muhammad I'm not
  • 00:43:10
    totally sure if I understand it right I
  • 00:43:12
    hope Josue you understand it it's how
  • 00:43:14
    are my measuring progress
  • 00:43:17
    how are your measuring Pro progress yes
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    I'm not so sure maybe Muhammad means how
  • 00:43:23
    the progress and the course is like
  • 00:43:25
    measured
  • 00:43:27
    um well yeah I mean yours I don't know
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    but uh the ones that we teach uh we try
  • 00:43:32
    to we try as I said before we try to
  • 00:43:34
    provide different approaches to uh to
  • 00:43:36
    compare what is the impact of selecting
  • 00:43:38
    different
  • 00:43:39
    techniques to measure emissions and how
  • 00:43:42
    those Drive different Supply Chain
  • 00:43:43
    management and Logistics decisions so
  • 00:43:45
    this is a a core discussion in the
  • 00:43:47
    course because we really believe that
  • 00:43:48
    whenever possible a company should focus
  • 00:43:51
    on very detailed approaches to get those
  • 00:43:54
    estimations
  • 00:43:55
    awesome thanks I think that was the
  • 00:43:57
    correct answer because we got a thumbs
  • 00:43:59
    up awesome awesome thank you Mohammed
  • 00:44:01
    cool so Carlos asked how does climate
  • 00:44:04
    change impact agricultural Supply chains
  • 00:44:09
    well you know I will not pretend to be
  • 00:44:11
    the expert on that on that question
  • 00:44:13
    Carlos uh I am sure that uh Dave Kura
  • 00:44:16
    probably the right person to answer that
  • 00:44:18
    question but of course the answer is uh
  • 00:44:19
    there is a lot of impact a lot of impact
  • 00:44:22
    into mainly all the entities in the
  • 00:44:23
    supply chain a particularly in
  • 00:44:24
    extraction like agriculture it matters
  • 00:44:27
    it matters a lot but I uh I will not
  • 00:44:29
    venture to give you a more discussion on
  • 00:44:31
    that I invite you to join the course and
  • 00:44:33
    also participate in those discussions in
  • 00:44:35
    our discussion forums once we are there
  • 00:44:37
    and Dave Correll that discusses a lot of
  • 00:44:39
    sustainable sourcing will probably spend
  • 00:44:41
    more time answering those questions
  • 00:44:44
    perfect so rui says um as you said the
  • 00:44:48
    path is more important than the goal my
  • 00:44:51
    perception is that most companies are
  • 00:44:52
    currently just declaring interesting
  • 00:44:54
    strategic plans but don't have a
  • 00:44:56
    concrete plan the program will cover how
  • 00:44:59
    to convince the decision people to go
  • 00:45:01
    beyond the nice declarations and yeah ah
  • 00:45:05
    you know I'm very much a with you on
  • 00:45:07
    this one right even though I believe
  • 00:45:09
    there are some companies that definitely
  • 00:45:10
    haven't invested taking the time to
  • 00:45:13
    really build interesting plans but I
  • 00:45:16
    believe this is honestly a key question
  • 00:45:17
    at this stage at least in my experience
  • 00:45:19
    when I've been discussing with both you
  • 00:45:21
    know companies and and body the the the
  • 00:45:25
    in cpgs logistics as well as Consulting
  • 00:45:28
    companies the challenge is okay we've
  • 00:45:30
    done some exercises in estimating our
  • 00:45:32
    carbon emissions we already identified
  • 00:45:34
    clear hot spots so we have already
  • 00:45:36
    implemented some strategies that we know
  • 00:45:39
    are going to help immediately but then
  • 00:45:41
    from there to save now I need to get in
  • 00:45:43
    2040 or 2050 a carbon neutral the part
  • 00:45:46
    is still very very strange how are you
  • 00:45:48
    going to do it what are the investments
  • 00:45:50
    in which moment what initiatives so
  • 00:45:53
    those questions are still in the place
  • 00:45:55
    and companies do not know it and Our
  • 00:45:57
    intention is to is to help them reflect
  • 00:45:59
    on this by looking also at the framework
  • 00:46:01
    that I was discussing today which is
  • 00:46:03
    focus on this investment but spend time
  • 00:46:05
    also looking at what you can do at these
  • 00:46:07
    current decisions now the the feeling
  • 00:46:10
    that I get is that they they don't want
  • 00:46:12
    to make in general Investments that uh
  • 00:46:14
    will jeopardize also their
  • 00:46:17
    economic competitiveness right we want
  • 00:46:19
    to make sure that by by investing they
  • 00:46:22
    still are going to be able to deliver
  • 00:46:23
    and being profitable that's uh that's
  • 00:46:25
    the main at least approach we we use to
  • 00:46:28
    discuss and uh try to convince them to
  • 00:46:30
    embrace this so the way to do it is that
  • 00:46:32
    we acknowledge that that's the approach
  • 00:46:33
    and we look at any decision that we are
  • 00:46:35
    making any recommendation that we are
  • 00:46:37
    making always looking at the side what
  • 00:46:39
    is the economic impact as well the
  • 00:46:41
    impact in the in the in the in the cost
  • 00:46:44
    minimization as well as the service how
  • 00:46:46
    much these decisions May or not affect
  • 00:46:48
    or or capability to serve the customers
  • 00:46:51
    with the standards times and quantities
  • 00:46:53
    that they are used to and again so we
  • 00:46:56
    can balance all of this and we use
  • 00:46:57
    examples in almost anything in
  • 00:46:58
    consolidation strategies in routing in
  • 00:47:02
    inventory planning so all those
  • 00:47:03
    decisions in this course we are going to
  • 00:47:06
    play with that and create that awareness
  • 00:47:07
    and that's mostly our idea that you are
  • 00:47:09
    if you become familiar with these tools
  • 00:47:12
    and also conscious that this is an
  • 00:47:14
    opportunity for organizations to really
  • 00:47:16
    Embrace this in a in a realistic way in
  • 00:47:19
    which they can achieve those goals and
  • 00:47:20
    at the same time looking at the business
  • 00:47:22
    expectations
  • 00:47:24
    awesome thanks real sweet welcome so
  • 00:47:27
    Jean Francois ask another question
  • 00:47:29
    thanks for being so active from Francois
  • 00:47:31
    and he asked that's the course address
  • 00:47:33
    the types of cooperation with
  • 00:47:35
    non-business stakeholders like ngos to
  • 00:47:38
    improve the supply chain sustainability
  • 00:47:41
    yeah I wish I could tell you that that's
  • 00:47:43
    the case the realities that we mention
  • 00:47:45
    it right so we discuss about the
  • 00:47:46
    importance of uh of the ngos and and how
  • 00:47:49
    they also may drive uh plenty of
  • 00:47:52
    behavior but we um
  • 00:47:56
    you know they we don't do particular uh
  • 00:47:59
    how to say a differentiation between the
  • 00:48:02
    the type of content we developed based
  • 00:48:04
    on on these ngos except for one project
  • 00:48:07
    that for instance we discussed at least
  • 00:48:09
    an illustration of the green Network
  • 00:48:10
    design because we work on a Capstone
  • 00:48:12
    project just uh last class uh with uh
  • 00:48:16
    with UNICEF in Zimbabwe in Africa it was
  • 00:48:19
    actually sponsored by a former student
  • 00:48:22
    yuto and uh and also done by a couple of
  • 00:48:25
    brilliant students a team and uh and
  • 00:48:28
    Kareem and the idea was to uh to do a
  • 00:48:32
    distribution a strategy to deliver
  • 00:48:34
    particular Goods that were needed in
  • 00:48:36
    Zimbabwe but again the approach didn't
  • 00:48:39
    vary that much because mainly was
  • 00:48:41
    related to how to build this network to
  • 00:48:43
    achieve certain reduction of emissions
  • 00:48:45
    by keeping the service level of this
  • 00:48:47
    network so we we treated the NGO as if
  • 00:48:49
    it was any other organization but at
  • 00:48:52
    least we create the awareness
  • 00:48:53
    unfortunately we do not spend we don't
  • 00:48:55
    not have so much time to really discuss
  • 00:48:57
    much more than that
  • 00:48:59
    perfect thanks this way so unfortunately
  • 00:49:03
    the time is uh almost up
  • 00:49:05
    um so if you have more time you can
  • 00:49:08
    still stay in here or we can finish
  • 00:49:10
    first way what do you prefer no I if I
  • 00:49:13
    would be happy to uh to at least take
  • 00:49:15
    five minutes more right and then if you
  • 00:49:18
    have more questions what we're gonna do
  • 00:49:19
    is we are going to take the chart and
  • 00:49:21
    try to answer you but if you can reach
  • 00:49:23
    out to us maybe we can write some of our
  • 00:49:25
    emails in the chat so that they can
  • 00:49:27
    reach out to us and make sure that uh
  • 00:49:29
    did you get your uh your answers because
  • 00:49:31
    we we really want want you to uh to help
  • 00:49:33
    you decide to join us in this uh in this
  • 00:49:36
    fascinating course awesome so if you
  • 00:49:39
    want to stay everyone's welcome to stay
  • 00:49:40
    we will answer a few more questions but
  • 00:49:42
    I will write my email address
  • 00:49:45
    um in here so if you have any more
  • 00:49:47
    questions I'm happy to answer them
  • 00:49:50
    um yeah so this is my email address just
  • 00:49:52
    message me
  • 00:49:53
    um and we have a few more questions to
  • 00:49:55
    go okay so another one is is it actually
  • 00:49:58
    possible to assess accurately the final
  • 00:50:00
    carbon footprint of a product or a
  • 00:50:02
    service when it should require to get to
  • 00:50:04
    get the visibility of all the Upstream
  • 00:50:07
    chain beginning from raw material
  • 00:50:09
    Industries
  • 00:50:10
    oh that was a very comprehensive
  • 00:50:12
    question and I believe it was a little
  • 00:50:13
    bit too fast for me to capture
  • 00:50:14
    everything
  • 00:50:15
    I can tell you that uh yeah we we also
  • 00:50:19
    mentioned the product footprint but this
  • 00:50:21
    is not a course on life cycle assessment
  • 00:50:23
    right so we do not uh do that exercise
  • 00:50:25
    because that will require probably a
  • 00:50:27
    different type of uh of course like
  • 00:50:29
    industrial ecology in that regard and so
  • 00:50:31
    this at least what we do is what we
  • 00:50:33
    mentioned the the existence of this
  • 00:50:35
    product footprint but what we do is
  • 00:50:37
    discuss more the what we call the
  • 00:50:38
    corporate footprint is more what are the
  • 00:50:40
    missions associated with organizations
  • 00:50:42
    and the supply chains operating with
  • 00:50:44
    those products and services so this is a
  • 00:50:46
    slightly different as you can see
  • 00:50:47
    because the order is something that in a
  • 00:50:49
    manner is a little bit fixed this is the
  • 00:50:51
    life cycle because of the materials and
  • 00:50:53
    how this is extracted and how this is
  • 00:50:54
    moved and it's a discussion on
  • 00:50:56
    functional units in this case it's more
  • 00:50:58
    about how you are deciding in Supply
  • 00:51:01
    Chain management your decisions on
  • 00:51:03
    Transportation Planning inventory
  • 00:51:05
    production and those things are the ones
  • 00:51:07
    that we are going to assess what are the
  • 00:51:08
    environmental impacts or sustainability
  • 00:51:10
    impacts in the in in those decisions
  • 00:51:13
    right but we mentioned that and of
  • 00:51:15
    course there are other courses in life
  • 00:51:16
    cycle assessment that you can also go
  • 00:51:18
    but hopefully you find also that the
  • 00:51:20
    corporate footprint matters a lot
  • 00:51:21
    particularly when you are looking at
  • 00:51:23
    achieving those carbon targets for the
  • 00:51:25
    next years
  • 00:51:27
    awesome
  • 00:51:28
    so Yasin as meeting Target is important
  • 00:51:32
    but setting the right emissions Target
  • 00:51:33
    is even more critical our company is
  • 00:51:36
    able to measure their emissions
  • 00:51:37
    accurately are they able to connect
  • 00:51:39
    those measurements to business decisions
  • 00:51:42
    oh my goodness this is brilliant
  • 00:51:44
    questions so the first one I will say
  • 00:51:46
    it's uh arguable uh not the case right
  • 00:51:49
    we don't know because it depends a lot
  • 00:51:51
    of this discussion we are saying what is
  • 00:51:52
    the right methodology to estimate the
  • 00:51:54
    missions right important thing at the
  • 00:51:56
    end the way that we see it is to keep
  • 00:51:57
    consistency well we have observed and we
  • 00:51:59
    discuss a lot in the course is that uh
  • 00:52:02
    at the corporate level as organization
  • 00:52:04
    at a corporate level many of the
  • 00:52:06
    methodologies provide similar
  • 00:52:08
    estimations of emissions
  • 00:52:10
    so that that means it doesn't matter how
  • 00:52:12
    accurate it is in the aggregate level
  • 00:52:14
    you usually get it right or missed or
  • 00:52:16
    errors of five percent
  • 00:52:18
    but when you are gonna assign this to a
  • 00:52:21
    logistics business supply chain
  • 00:52:23
    management decision this is when it
  • 00:52:24
    makes a whole difference because those
  • 00:52:26
    those fluctuations that exist for the
  • 00:52:28
    error become really relevant and can
  • 00:52:30
    actually drive a completely different
  • 00:52:31
    decision so it matters a lot in the in
  • 00:52:35
    the in the in the Tactical and
  • 00:52:37
    operational level to really look for the
  • 00:52:40
    most detailed approach to actually align
  • 00:52:42
    this with the with the business decision
  • 00:52:44
    now at this stage I know that some
  • 00:52:46
    organizations have started to do this
  • 00:52:48
    but this is still a little bit more in
  • 00:52:50
    the in the first steps the important
  • 00:52:53
    thing is that we develop part of those
  • 00:52:55
    at the research
  • 00:52:57
    output and we intend to disseminate this
  • 00:53:00
    through the course to help organizations
  • 00:53:03
    or practitioners like yourself to learn
  • 00:53:06
    how to really use that information to to
  • 00:53:08
    make better decisions that will account
  • 00:53:10
    for this for these impact so this is
  • 00:53:12
    part of the content and and the other is
  • 00:53:14
    part of the discussion we are going to
  • 00:53:15
    also have
  • 00:53:17
    awesome we have another question from
  • 00:53:20
    Rishi I think I can maybe the last one
  • 00:53:22
    yeah yes
  • 00:53:24
    um it's lectures would have recommended
  • 00:53:25
    readings and white papers and yes after
  • 00:53:28
    each lecture and even before we have
  • 00:53:30
    listed recommended readings that you
  • 00:53:32
    have to read and also some that you
  • 00:53:34
    wouldn't have to read that are just
  • 00:53:35
    interesting
  • 00:53:37
    um like additional readings so yeah we
  • 00:53:39
    have a lot of them
  • 00:53:40
    awesome so I think uh Associates at the
  • 00:53:43
    time is up
  • 00:53:44
    um as I said you can send me all your
  • 00:53:46
    questions
  • 00:53:47
    um and I'm really happy maybe to see you
  • 00:53:49
    again I guess
  • 00:53:51
    fantastic
  • 00:53:52
    well thank you so much Julia thank you
  • 00:53:54
    so much everyone for attending and as
  • 00:53:56
    Julia said we look forward to having you
  • 00:53:58
    in our virtual class thank you so much
  • 00:54:00
    and have a great day bye thank you bye
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