Green Logistics for the Real World
Keynote Speaker: Brittain Ladd
former manager of logistics & transportation strategy for Dell Inc.

While a great many academic theorists and prominent industry observers are telling logistics professionals how to Green their supply chain, few of them have actually done the gritty hands-on work such a transformation requires. Not so with Brittain Ladd. Ladd knows Green. He’s an internationally recognized expert in the field of green logistics strategy who addressed the issue at the United Nation’s Conference on Sustainability last year. Ladd’s keynote will be simple and direct, explaining how to develop a customized Green program that will deliver immediate results and benefits to the bottom line. And unlike other dry and discursive keynotes you may have been exposed to on the subject, this will be a “real-world” talk covering strategies that actually work.

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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint: A Practical Guide

In this session, Mike Kilgore and the team at Chainalytics will talk about how shippers can use a number of strategies to reduce costs and carbon emissions at the same time. The session will touch on issues to consider when defining the scope of a company’s supply chain, the best approach to measuring a baseline carbon footprint, and how to begin to achieve measurable reductions through a constraining or optimizing strategy.

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Best Practices in the Green Supply Chain Management

This top-level panel will spotlight companies that are taking the lead in making their supply chains greener and more socially responsible. Representatives from those leading companies and a top educator will discuss initiatives in such areas as sourcing, global transportation, packaging, and warehousing/distribution that have lowered negative environmental effects—while also reducing costs.

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Technology’s Role in the Green Supply Chain

Technology can play an important role in helping companies implement policies and procedures to help make their supply chains greener and more energy efficient. The panel of experts in this webcast will explore the technologies currently available to do this and give examples of how the leaders have put them to practical use. They’ll also look at emerging technologies that will help supply chain professionals take their green efforts to the next level.

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How 3PLs Can Help You Go Green

With sky rocking fuel surcharges and freight rates, logistics and supply chain managers have enough on their plates these days. With that in mind, many leading third party logistics providers (3PL) are taking great strides (such as increased usage of EPA SmartWay-approved carriers) to green their own systems in an effort to help shippers take a more streamline approach in creating a more sustainable transportation plan. In this session, attendees will learn what services 3PLs are adding to help shippers get greener and then hear a practical case study of a shipper that is using a 3PL to complete its sustainable plan.