SEKEE Webinar - Understanding Global Value Chains

Short introduction/ What is it about:

Globalization offered to companies new opportunities as well challenges. International production, trade and investments are increasingly organized within so-called global value chains (GVCs ΟΕCD), where the different stages of the production process are located across different countries.

In this webinar attendees will be able to understand global value chains and be equiped with a broad understanding of global issues of value chains including current challenges forced by pandemic of COVID-19.

The webinar contains both basic theory and real word case studies from global market to showcase challenges and best practices.

The webinar is took place online on the 29th of September.

Key topics covered include:

Globalization and value chains
Global production and services / offshoring
Global sourcing
International purchasing
Offshoring / Reshoring
International trade and value chains
Digital Technologies in Global Value Chains
Sustainability in Global Value Chain
Current Challenges in Global value chains (uncertainty, lean)
How COVID-19 outbreak have highlighted the interconnectedness between countries through global value chains (GVCs)