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Episode 71
Guest: Arzum Akkas, Ph.D.

Sustainable Supply Chains: Beyond the Checked Box w/ Arzum Akkas, Ph.D.

Overview

Sustainability is becoming an indispensable part of corporate strategy for many companies. In 2022, 96% of the companies in the S&P 500 Index published sustainability reports, while this figure in 2011 was merely under 20% according to the Governance & Accountability Institute. Has this represented a transformational shift in the definition of strategic priorities, the allocation of resources and the strategic differentiators? Or is incremental reporting simply checking a box?

Join the inService™ Podcast Live on Thursday, November 21st at 9:00am EST, as Dr. Arzum Akkas, stops by the studio. Pulling from her professional experience and her academic expertise, she’ll share her perspective on how multiple practices across the supply chain can reduce an organization’s environmental impact while accounting for the necessity of building a business case.

Arzum Akkas is an associate professor at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems and a Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from MIT. Before becoming an academic, she worked in industry for 8 years as a management consultant at the strategy and operations firm Archstone Consulting, an operations manager at PepsiCo, and a business systems consultant preselling and implementing solutions of the supply chain software Blue Yonder. Her research has been published at leading academic journals including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.

About the Host

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Gerardo Pelayo, Ph.D.
Service CouncilVP, Research & Advisory
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Gerardo Pelayo, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Research & Advisory for Service Council. With a hybrid background that integrates cross-industry hands-on experience with his depth as an analytical modeler (Ph.D. in Logistics & Supply Chain from the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program) built on a process-driven foundation as an Industrial Engineer, Gerardo brings to the table a prescriptive communion between dynamic innovation and operational pragmatism. Having developed his career at the seams of solutions, delivery and growth with a marked focus in the service value chain, Gerardo joins us to deepen Service Council’s expertise on trends, challenges, and best practices for accelerating business outcomes across the service value chain including expanding the lens of research from its current analytical trends into a framework of business best practices. His onboarding will also expand Service Council’s professional services offering with the formalization of the Service Index™ assessment program while assisting organizations with operationalizing the research findings into tangible change management and transformation.

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