Important announcement

Here’s a very important blogpost to announce that Procurement magazine has gone…

Off to the printers!

As I type this, my very talented designers are laying out the last few pages, making sure everything’s set when we go to the printers – tonight.

If you have subscribed to the magazine via our website be prepared to receive a copy on your desks really soon. If you haven’t, well, what are you waiting for?

Finally, when you guys (and many of you guys do) call me to ask when the magazine will arrive, I have an answer for you.

From the team at Procurement magazine, thanks for all your enthusiasm, your time and your encouragement. I hope you enjoy the first issue.

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In other unrelated news, a colleague and I went for the screening of the 11th Hour, a documentary directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen and narrated by Leonardo diCaprio who also wrote it. In a nutshell, the film discussed the eco-system's degeneration and how mankind's pollution was causing massive changes in the climate that will eventually impact us all.

While I didn't quite enjoy the movie, the take-home point was clear: our earth is dying at our hands. What's worse, the film pointed out that amongst others, a few of the biggest culprits remain the manufacturing and logistics businesses, who are guilty of pouring waste into streams and polluting the air with emissions.

The need to go green is intense and this is reflected in not just in the movies (like Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth), but on the covers of magazines and emblazoned in headlines in newspapers all around the world.

Yet in our "clean and green" city, we have admitted to not being overly conscious to keeping our manufacturing, logistics and in fact the entire supply chain green. Am I wrong? Perhaps. What's holding us back from loving mother nature?

Think about this from the film: previously, only a handful of children in a classroom of about 40 are afflicted with asthma. Now, if you walk into a room full of children and asked those with asthma to raise their hands, nearly 30% of the children will have their hands raised.

There's nothing like the present to change this. What can corporations do to drive this change, what can supply chain managers do to execute it, and more importantly, why hasn't it been done yet?