IABEP Bulletin September 2020

Welcoming new members to the IABEP network

• The IABEP community is growing

What's coming up in the next few months?

• A new digital project collaboration platform for all IABEP members

• 1st IABEP Expert Event: “Cyber Security in Global Business and Supply Chains”

• Industry 4.0 workshop in Singapore

Recent events and initiatives

• Business case models for returnable packaging solutions

• New idea management system introduced at Tubex Packaging

• Webinar: Industry 4.0 – Competency Development for Factory of Future

• "The impact of digitalisation on global supply chains" - an empirical investigation

• The 5th International Conference on Management in Emerging Markets (ICMEM) 2020

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The IABEP community is growing

IABEP brings together the expertise of academic institutions and multinational enterprises as a way of offering innovative solutions to business challenges. Our network’s benefit to members is growing with its size. We are, therefore, excited to welcome the following new corporate members from 2020:

Alfred Kärcher SE & Co KG
Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH
SICK Product Center Asia Pte. Ltd.
Trumpf GmbH & Co KG

We look forward to our next joint activity.

A new digital project collaboration platform for all IABEP members

IABEP is setting up a collaborative online project space. The platform offered by Telanto aims to facilitate cross-border cooperation between industry partners and universities. It will support IABEP's aim to bring academic expertise and student talent to our corporate members whether this be in the form of projects, theses, training or consulting.

We call upon corporate members to post potential projects which students and academics can get involved in. Vice-versa, academic members are invited to post course-related projects that require corporate involvement. All projects and initiatives (called “challenges” in the Telanto world) can be administered and managed online. more

1st IABEP Expert Event: “Cyber Security in Global Business and Supply Chains”

We are happy to announce the launch of the new online “IABEP Expert Series”, aimed at facilitating exchange among professionals from the IABEP community on current business topics. External keynote speakers and IABEP members get a chance to share ideas in the 60 - 90 minute online events.

We plan to host approx. 4 events per year – fully digital and at no cost to IABEP members. We will soon share a list of proposed topics and invite you to suggest more areas that you want to explore.

Save the date:
We will kick off the new series in November 2020 with a session on
“Cyber Security in Global Business and Supply Chains”.

Interested IABEP members will need to register for the event. More details to be announced soon!

Industry 4.0 workshop in Singapore

IABEP offers all members a unique opportunity to gain an overview of Industry 4.0 concepts and to learn about their impact on future manufacturing and supply chain management activities.

In cooperation with our corporate partner, Festo, we will hold a two-day workshop in the unique, state-of-the art learning factory environment of CDTI Singapore:

Date: 30 Nov. and 1 Dec. 2020

Venue: CDTI Training Center Singapore

We hope that Covid-19 restrictions will allow cross-border travelling by then. Save the date!

Business case models for returnable packaging solutions

What are the cost and benefit implications of returnable transport packaging solutions for multinational enterprises? Which contingency factors need to be considered in order to assess their economic attractiveness?  Alsco, IABEP corporate member, and ESB Business School joined forces in an applied research project to investigate this topical issue in more detail. more

New idea management system introduced at Tubex Packaging

New IABEP corporate member, Tubex GmbH, approached the network for support with the introduction of an idea management system at their plant in Rangendingen. A software-based innovation process had already been piloted at their factory in Brazil. Prof. Hazel Grünewald, ESB Business School, collaborated closely with the Tubex team to adapt this system to the German environment and culture. A number of ESB students made a valuable contribution to the launch of the new system with their final year theses and projects. more

Webinar: Industry 4.0 – Competency Development for Factory of Future

More than 60 experts from Europe and Southeast Asia joined the webinar to discuss digitalisation and the resulting paradigm shift in manufacturing and logistics towards Factory of Future (FoF) and Logistics 4.0”. The webinar was hosted by IABEP in cooperation with its partners FESTO CDTI Singapore, Technical University of Munich (TUM) Asia and the Singaporean-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Further activities are planned in this exciting field – stay tuned! more

"The impact of digitalisation on global supply chains" - an empirical investigation

Building on a joint quantitative study, professors Ed Sweeney (Aston University), Andreas Taschner and Hazel Gruenewald (ESB Business School), are currently investigating the impact of digitalisation on global supply chains in a qualitative study based on interviews with industry experts from all tiers of the supply chain. They shared their findings at the recent e-LRN 2020 Special Web Conference more

The 5th International Conference on Management in Emerging Markets (ICMEM) 2020

From 3-5 August 2020 the 5th annual ICMEM conference took place online, hosted by the IABEP partner SMB ITB from Bandung, Indonesia. The theme of the conference was “Sustainable Development: Orchestrating Business to Respond to Society’s Latest Challenges”. more

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