Powering Performance

The focus of this year’s summit is “the future,” and what’s on the horizon for the automotive supply chain. Attendees will have the rare opportunity to meet the changemakers, innovators, and leaders that drive new technologies that may sound like science fiction, but are already starting to show up everywhere – from the production line to behind the wheel.

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MMOG/LE – the Global Materials Management Operational Guidelines/Logistical Evaluation – has long been an industry proven and trusted resource, supporting organizations’ efforts to improve supply chain efficiency and accuracy while reducing costs, errors and waste.

Human trafficking victims are often held in slave-like conditions and forced to work in the sex trade or other servitude. One international organization estimated about 25 million people were trafficked in 2016.

CTPAT has embarked on a journey over the previous four years to reinvigorate Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Trade Compliance efforts. In close collaboration with private industry and best practices put forth by international trade groups, such as the World Customs Organization (WCO), CTPAT has established a program that is equipped to be the global standard for Trade Compliance.

ILAB publishes three reports on international child labor and forced labor that serve as valuable resources for research, advocacy, government action and corporate responsibility. These reports are The Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. Each of these reports has a distinct mandate, focus and set of implications, but taken collectively, they document the current situation of child labor, forced labor and forced child labor around the world.

Along with opening speaker Jackie Watt – Ford Motor Company’s Global Director of Supply Chain Strategy and Risk – this year’s event features a full lineup of sessions focused on everything from autonomous and electric vehicles and charging infrastructure investment, to carbon neutrality goals, the future strategy of U.S. Customs & Border Protection, and much more.

Led by Carlos R. Rodriguez from the Office of Trade at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), our 2-hour virtual “ACE Reporting Demonstration for Export” and “ACE Reporting Demonstration for Import” courses provide you with the skills and knowledge to navigate and take advantage of the ACE Reports tool.

A White House pilot to share freight data among shippers and supply chain stakeholders has doubled in size, with participants beginning to exchange information.