AGENDA
Agenda
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Registration
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Chair’s opening remarks
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Building responsible supply chains in APAC: Moving from compliance language to operational reality
- Understanding the shift from compliance to commercial and operational priority in APAC supply chains
- Assessing how geopolitical pressure and sourcing shifts are reshaping supply chain design
- Operationalising responsible supply chain principles across procurement, logistics, and suppliers
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Supplier due diligence and ethical sourcing beyond tier one
- Understanding key human rights, labour standards, and supplier risk across complex APAC supply bases
- Identifying practical approaches to supplier mapping, monitoring, and remediation
- Strengthening oversight by moving beyond self reported data towards ongoing monitoring and remediation
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Traceability, transparency, and trusted data for accountable supply chains
- Exploring how traceability supports compliance, audit readiness, and risk management
- Pinpointing where visibility gaps persist across warehousing, transport, and supplier networks
- Translating scope 3 and traceability data into usable insights across functions
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Networking break
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Carbon accounting and Scope 3 reporting for audit-ready supply chains
- Building emissions baselines that support credible reporting and external assurance
- Aligning finance, procurement, and operations around consistent Scope 3 data and methodologies
- Preparing reporting approaches for tightening disclosures and assurance requirements
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From commitment to credibility: Delivering Scope 3 at scale in APAC
- Breaking down why supplier data quality remains the main constraint on Scope 3 delivery
- Comparing effective and ineffective approaches to supplier engagement across APAC markets
- Advancing from estimates emissions figures to auditable, decision-grade Scope 3 data
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Lunch & networking break
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Circular supply chains in practice through packaging, recovery, and EPR
- Scaling circular packaging, reuse, and reverse logistics models beyond pilot initiatives
- Navigating Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements across different APAC markets
- Balancing environmental ambition with the commercial realities of circular operating models
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Scaling responsible supply chains across APAC markets
- Designing governance and ownership models that support responsibility at regional scale
- Embedding responsible supply chain principles into procurement, logistics, and operating models
- Overcoming execution barriers that prevent responsible supply chain commitments from sticking
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Networking break
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Responsible warehousing and last-mile operations: Energy, safety, and emissions in practices
- Reducing energy consumption and improving efficiency across warehouse operations
- Ensuring workforce safety and labour standards in high-volume fulfilment and delivery environments
- Managing emissions across warehousing and last-mile networks within Scope 3 reporting
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Winning in a regulated supply chain through responsible operations
- Interpreting how ESG disclosure, due diligence, and supply chain regulation are evolving across APAC
- Converting regulatory pressure into stronger operational discipline and consistency
- Defining what regulator-ready supply chain operations look like in practice
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Chair’s closing remarks