Your business and the global supply chain: Download your free Longitudes '08 Conference Report

Resilience under pressure: Longitudes '08 brought together worldwide experts to discuss supply-chain best practices.

Want to see your business featured in Compass? Tell us about it.

You may not have been fortunate enough to attend the Longitudes global trade conference in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2008, but Compass Online is delighted to bring you – free of charge – the executive summary and full report of the proceedings. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to stay on top of emerging issues that affect global supply chains, and it's of relevance to almost everyone with business interests.

Longitudes '08 brought together leading supply-chain practitioners, academics and UPS executives, as well as political leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to discuss global trade, risk management, resiliency and supply-chain best practices. The current financial and economic crisis highlights how unpredictable and interconnected the world is, as well as illustrating the importance of effective risk management. Throughout Longitudes '08, practitioners shared what they are doing to cope with uncertainty, volatility and risk by creating resilient supply chains.

Of course, companies that achieve this will create advantages over their competitors. That's one very good reason to stay on top of thought leadership: so that your company can simply stay on top.

Enjoy, with our compliments, the conference executive summary.

View or print Longitudes executive summary.

Or, read the entire conference report.