RFID - future impact on retail, logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing

Futurist Keynote Speaker: Posts, Slides, Videos - Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain Keynotes

Practical challenges in delivering wireless barcode revolution with water, metal challenges (RFID radio frequency identification devices).

Controlling global supply chains at the speed of light.

Impact of RFID on retail and wholesale stock taking.

Conference keynote lecture by Patrick Dixon, for Red Prairie, audience of logistics and supply chain executives.

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Carbon Offsetting - Global Warming Action to tackle Climate Emergency. Sustainability Keynote Speaker

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Carbon offsetting is a vitally important, but controversial way to tackle climate change. Every business should consider carbon offsetting as an integral part of strategy and responsibility.

It allows one business to fund energy savings in another, and to use those savings as a credit or allowance against its own energy use. It works because it is often cheaper to save a ton of carbon in another company rather than your own. There are many challenges eg proving rapid, genuine benefit, preventing fraud.

Post / video made in 2008 - very accurate forecasting.

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Future of Manufacturing

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Business Week / Siemens client event in Boston for manufacturing industry analysts.  New markets and technologies in manufacturing.  Impact of credit crunch.  Nanotechnology and biotechnology, future of the pharmaceutical industry and space technology.  Divergence and convergence.

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Energy Saving Business Opportunities

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Here are some examples of many other energy saving / environmental projects - each of which is a business opportunity, as well as an opportunity to help the environment.

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FUTUREWISE - Guide to surviving the future

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Managing logistics through a downturn.

Many executives responsible for logistics are feeling battered and bruised right now. Hit by one event after another, there’s little time to regroup or reflect, and the top of a corporation can be a lonely place. Profit warnings, share price pressures, mergers, reorganisations, relocations, disposals, painful layoffs and great geopolitical uncertainties can sweep away even the most comprehensive logistics strategies – and that’s despite outstanding management over many years.

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Product Exchanges and Climate Change

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The chemical industry in the EU is a prime example where huge amounts of energy could easily be saved by product exchanges.  Every day many thousands of trucks drive long distances across Europe carrying identical chemicals in opposite directions from different sets of suppliers to factories.  If both companies were part of a Product Exchange, they would swop their identical stock online. Polish polyethylene for example would go direct to a Polish factory, and the same for the French. Over 100 million kilometres of trucking could be saved if chemical suppliers worked more efficiently.  That’s equivalent to 10 million litres less diesel burnt, saving at least EU 20 million in costs.

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