Wednesday, February 1st
Central JerseyAPICS & ISM-NJPresent:
"Sustainable Supply Chain"
Kevin Lyons - Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, RutgersBusinessSchool
The goal of this presentation is to obtain new knowledge to develop and maintain organizational leadership in sustainability and greenhouse gas emission reductions via your supply chain and procurement actions. This presentation promotes and reiterates the need for companies, agencies, organizations and departments to promote green product procurement by ensuring that the following environmental performance and sustainability factors are included to the maximum extent practicable for all applicable procurements in the planning, award, and execution phases of the acquisition.
This presentation will cover:
Focusing on supply chain and sustainability responsibilities
Quantifying economic and social development options
Emergence of social impact procurement strategies
Working with social enterprises
The importance of the circular economy shift
Input for the organization's CSR strategy
The Rutgers Case Study
Who Should Attend:
Anyone who has engaged the manufacturing, marketing, transporting, consuming and/or recycling of a product or a service as well as Supply Chain Practitioners, including Sourcing, Production, Inventory, Distribution, Transportation, & Logistics, students, people in transition, and those contemplating a career change.
!!! New Location !!!
Holiday Inn Somerset 195 Davidson Ave Somerset, NJ
5:30 – 6:15Registration & Networking – Complimentary Wine & Beer
6:15 – 6:30Presidents’ Welcome / Chapter Business
6:30 – 7:30Dinner & Discussion – Buffet Dinner
7:30 – 8:30Presentation & Discussion
WITH Reservations: $40 Full Time Students: $25 Register:
Kevin Lyons, Ph.D., University of Sunderland; Supply Chain Management and Environmental Management and Policy. Dr. Lyons conducts research on developing and integrating global environmental, social, economic, ethical criteria and data into supply chain/procurement systems and processes. His research work includes the environmental and economic impacts on raw material extraction, logistics, manufacturing, consumption, consumer of multiple products and services research, designing and implementing local, national and international environmental economic development systems, waste-to-energy systems and environmental and sustainable social policy and financial impact forecasting (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley Corporate Social and Environmental Impact Reporting).
He has also created the supply chain archeology and supply chain waste archeology research disciplines and has researched and written extensively on conducting environmental health-checks on global supply chains and the resulting benefits of reduced risk management impacts and costs.
Awards: Sierra Club Annual Professional of the Year Award, New Jersey State Governor's Award for Environmental Leadership and Excellence, NSF-IGERT grants (2) Research Interests:Supply chain management, supply chain environmental archaeology, supply chain environmental management, systems-thinking process modeling, life-cycle assessment and costing modeling, climate change - value driven supply chains .