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SP Insider - January 19, 2018

January 19, 2018 by Ginette Walker Vinski

Getting Started with Supply Chain Sustainability|Getting Started with Supply Chain Sustainability

Supply chain management is one of the most impactful opportunities for business sustainability – from reducing expenses to ensuring needed raw materials, fair labor practices, and supplier diversity. What are opportunities and best practices for incorporating sustainability into supply chain decisions and processes?

Join UPMC and Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Champions for Sustainability to explore sustainable supply chain basics, how your business can get started, and how it stands to benefit.

Featured Presenters:
– Valerie Cofield, Eastern Minority Supplier Development Council

– Patrick Flaherty, UPMC

– Benson Gabler, Pittsburgh Living Product Hub at International Living Future Institute

– Tim Nedley, UPMC

– Richard Price, Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities

– Toni Silva, UPMC

– Justin Stockdale, Pennsylvania Resources Council

– Sara Walfoort, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission

– Bart Wyss, UPMC

Plus: Featured Panel Discussion Moderated by Doris Carson Williams, African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania|Supply chain management is one of the most impactful opportunities for business sustainability – from reducing expenses to ensuring needed raw materials, fair labor practices, and supplier diversity. What are opportunities and best practices for incorporating sustainability into supply chain decisions and processes?

Join UPMC and Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Champions for Sustainability to explore sustainable supply chain basics, how your business can get started, and how it stands to benefit.

Featured Presenters:
– Valerie Cofield, Eastern Minority Supplier Development Council

– Patrick Flaherty, UPMC

– Benson Gabler, Pittsburgh Living Product Hub at International Living Future Institute

– Tim Nedley, UPMC

– Richard Price, Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities

– Toni Silva, UPMC

– Justin Stockdale, Pennsylvania Resources Council

– Sara Walfoort, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission

– Bart Wyss, UPMC

Plus: Featured Panel Discussion Moderated by Doris Carson Williams, African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania

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