Spotlight on EMEA and Our Growing Family

Spotlight on EMEA and Our Growing Family

LUP, as an international network, develops its team above Australian borders! Discover today 2 French, who are part of our growing family and work for LUP Global as Reps or Head of Marketing & Communication. They also act for Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) development.

Marie Pailhes-Dauphin, our Head of Marketing & Communications

Marie, our Head of Marketing & Communications, arrived in the LUP Team at the beginning of 2019. Marie is based in Capbreton, France. She helps LUP to build its marketing strategy and tools.

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Marie has done her studies in Law and Economics in Toulouse and Reading (England), before completing her master’s degree in “Risk Management in Developing Countries” at the Institut de Sciences Politiques of Bordeaux. She had a specialization in Sustainable Development and Africa/ Middle East areas.

Passionate about the general interest, she decided to start her professional life in a communication agency based in Bordeaux and specialized in public / parapublic domains. During 5 years, she learnt how to optimize social enterprise development through communication strategy.

In January 2019, she started a new life in Capbreton in France, close to the ocean and nature. She wanted to put her skills at the service of innovative and sustainable projects in order to help the change happen.

LUP and Noreen, its founder, who was looking for French partners for future development, crossed paths. The adventure started: Marie became our Marketing specialist and helps us to find the good tools and channels to achieve our goals.

In the future, she is also a part of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Development Team.

Her dream? A more humane society, which takes care of its environment and biodiversity. Through LUP, she is more than convinced that we can unite our forces to change (at least a little bit) the world through circular economy.

Amaury Laloux, our Rep in EMEA 

Amaury joins our EMEA team based in France recently. He studied International Economics in Paris and Bordeaux, France.

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His experience as a Policy and Economic Analyst brought him to work in Italy within the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation to analyse, compare and forecast economic indicators evolution amongst developing countries.

Later, Amaury focused on green energy production and joined the Hydrodynamic Technologies team as Responsible for Business Development, where he developed national and international projects for producing local, green and carbon-free hydroelectricity.

His appetite for traveling took him to America where the United States Department of Agriculture allowed him to deepen his analysis knowledge.

In the meantime, his passion for music led him to organise, co-organise and volunteer in numerous events and festivals throughout France, Morocco, Spain, Belgium and more to promote sustainable development and global awareness about Ethics, Energy and Food matters.

For Amaury, “being a part of Lup’s adventures seemed to be an obvious next step towards his personal and professional involvement.

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Interview with Steven Farrugia – Non-Executive Director at LUP Global

Interview with Steven Farrugia – Non-Executive Director at LUP Global

It is rare to come across individuals where you have an immediate connection and such close alignment of values, that it was ideal synchronicity when LUP Global was privileged enough to have met and been able to partner with the amazing Steven Farrugia, now a key member of the LUP Global Board acting as a Non-Executive Director.

Founder of both ShareTree and Vative, Steven has 24+ years of experience in Business Strategy, Character Development, Cultivating Thriving Cultures, Leadership Development, Performance Incentive Systems, Charity Organisations, Business Start-Ups, Software Engineering, App Development, Finance, Strategic Marketing, Customer Solutions, Executive Coaching, Mindset Coaching, Lean Six-Sigma Continuous Improvement Systems, Maintenance, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Warehousing, and having a meaningful and fun life.

Steven’s track record includes:

  • 14-year international career at Bosch
  • Winner of 2017 Creative Innovation Conference Scholarship
  • Finalist of Australian Young Achiever Award
  • Founder and Director of ShareTree, Vative Group, MyEye Group, Diaro
  • Advises & coaches several boards, start-ups & internationally organisations

Discover Steven through its interview !

1. Why does global wealth inequality mean so much to you & ShareTree’s values?
SF : At the root of all limitation to people’s opportunities to meet to their fullest potential & by their purpose is a limitation of enough. The amount of benefit that those receive that hold excessive wealth is completely disproportionate to the amount of limitation it poses to the rest of humanity.

Currently, the world average income ration between highest and lowest paid workers in corporations is 276 times to 1. This means the average worker that earns USD40K the highest paid worker earns USD11 million and 40K per annum, and that’s only the average.
A fair distribution of wealth through research and surveying is a ratio of 30 : 1. That is equivalent to USD40K to USD1.2 million per annum. Any realistic human being luxuriously live on USD1.2 million per annum.

It is ShareTree’s objective is to provide transparency so that people can use their buying power and employer choice power to make sustainable choices in purchasing and employment to correct this imbalance.

We will do this by educating mindsets and team cultures about gratitude for individuals, schools, community organisations and businesses. By engaging and connecting the skills of people and businesses with schools and community organisations through purpose aligned volunteering.

2. How do you see these values aligning with the broader vision of LUP?
SF : The ShareTree application provides an algorithm to connect people’s purpose and passion to the UN sustainable goals through 9 key global initiatives:

  1.  Wealth equality / Income equality
  2. Environment & Energy
  3.  Human ethics & Character
  4. Education
  5.  Clean Water & Food
  6.  Health issues
  7. Rights Equality
  8. Shelter
  9. Global Peace

LUP Global will be the ShareTree leading partner for initiatives related to 2. Environment & Energy.

3. What would be your ideal vision for our planet?
SF : To create a fairer world where every person has the opportunity to realise their full potential.

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Our Growing Family : Meet Michael C. Brown, our Chairman & Global Supply Chain Advisor

Our Growing Family : Meet Michael C. Brown, our Chairman & Global Supply Chain Advisor

Spotlight : Our People – Michael C. Brown, the new Chairman and Global Supply Chain Advisor

Another part of our growing network and team, we were very excited to welcome Michael C. Brown to our growing LUP Family.

Michael Brown joins LUP Global as Chairman & Global Supply Chain Advisor; the ability to apply his considerable experience in the pursuit of the goals of LUP to optimise asset lifecycles and develop the circular economy offer a new and exciting challenge.

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He is an Internationally Experienced Operations Executive. Commencing his career with Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd in Coburg, Melbourne; he then joined the parent company Eastman Kodak and spent 15 years working across Asia, USA and England in a variety of leadership roles in Supply Chain and Finance.

Returning to Australia in 2002, he worked in a number of Consulting roles before joining Whirlpool as Director Operations and then Qantas as Group General Manager Engineering Supply Chain. He then again worked in Consulting with a focus on Aviation and Health sectors before commencing his current role as General Manager Supply Chain and Sourcing for Nexans Olex ANZ.

Michael holds a Masters in Supply Chain from the University of Melbourne and studied Business at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), Australian Institute of Export (AIEX) and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company
Directors (AICD).

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Our Growing Family : Meet Marlies Loescher, our lab equipment specialist in Western Australia

Our Growing Family : Meet Marlies Loescher, our lab equipment specialist in Western Australia

Spotlight : Our People – Profile Marlies Loescher, Category Specialist in Life Sciences and Laboratory Equipment has joined the LUP team based in Perth, Western Australia

Another part of our growing network and team, we were very excited to welcome Marlies Loescher to our growing LUP Family.

In May this year she started as Category Specialist for Laboratory equipment representing LUP making use of all her contacts and relationships fostered over the years within the science community in Perth and Australia.

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Marlies studied and did her Diploma Engineer and PhD in Vienna in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. 

During her a career as a researcher and scientist, which brought her to work in France for a few months and eventually brought her to Australia, she noticed how she always saw microscopic pictures and other fascinating laboratory results through the eye of a lens. 

After working as a researcher she got positions within scientific companies as a sales representative, product specialist and account manager dealing with consumables, kits, laboratory equipment and high end automation laboratory equipment. In between those roles she also did a phlebotomist/pathology course and worked as a phlebotomist.

Marlies highlights “My core values of integrity, compassion and care for the environment are represented within LUP as LUP wants to prevent assets from going into landfill and mining more raw materials from the planet which is a form of protecting the environment and LUP’s code of ethics makes clear that integrity is a core value for the organisation as well. It is/was the alignment of values that made me want to be part of the mission of LUP and help it to grow big and globally.”

Marlies grew up interested in observing nature particularly in the forests and fields of Lower Austria. Being given her first camera when she was eleven ignited a passion for photographing nature and animals and thriving for conservation and preserving the wonders of nature. 

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To add professionalism to her natural talent in capturing most natural moments of people’s, animals’ and nature’s expressions she took courses and worked with a photographer alongside her fulltime sales position.

She began working on a series of portrait sessions of people’s pets, as well as focusing on portraying rescue animals of animal sanctuaries around Perth while volunteering. Marlies has been in Cambodia and Laos at Free The Bears sanctuaries several times doing volunteer work as well as in an Orangutan sanctuary in Malaysia.

More information on Marlies amazing Animal photography work  :
Her website AnimalSoulPhotography
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Instagram 

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October 2018 – Newsletter

October 2018 – Newsletter

October 2018 – Newsletter

Exciting New Changes Happening At LUP !

After almost one year since we launched, LUP is continuing to evolve. We are currently making some significant changes to improve and better fit the needs of our network and clients.

Focus of this newsletter :
– No more active listings on our website
– SBG has merged with LUP global
– LUP Asia-Pacific is now created
– Our guest expert Catherine Weetman analyses circular approaches to reduce inventory headaches
– Our newscorner this feature presents inspirational videos and podcasts

No more active listings

A few months ago, we advised that there were some big changes occurring here at LUP. We are very excited to announce the start of these changes today.

Firstly, we will no longer be maintaining active listings on our website. We are working on a number of updates to our website at the moment to reflect some of the developments in recent months, and this is the first major transition to the way we wish to engage with our network and a more sustainable way of working that paves the way for further changes to come.

After launching in November last year, we realised that we didn’t want to create a “marketplace” for the sale of waste or spare capacity. We didn’t want to essentially create a platform that would enable the sale of goods easily via a B2B online platform, which may thereby enable the potential to create further wasted materials due to the relative ease of sale and LUP being able to facilitate the end-to-end transaction. We want to ensure all goods that are made available and transacted through our network are actually waste materials, plus engage at much longer term strategic levels with our clients and network to avoid the overproduction of goods to begin with and ensure circular economy frameworks are considered from the outset.

We are also focusing in more on a select few major categories for waste currently and will have more announcements over the coming months to reach out across our network to engage with relevant stakeholders within these categories. For now, please kindly stay tuned for further updates as we continue to evolve, we thank-you for your patience and really appreciate the ongoing support.

Strategic Buyers Group (SBG) Has Now Merged With LUP Global

In 2016, Strategic Buyers Group (SBG) was founded as a boutique consulting agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The focus of SBG was on Supply Chain, Procurement and Logistics Consulting for Social Enterprises (companies that wanted to make a positive impact on the world). Whilst the founding story of how utilising the spare capacity in the trucks at AUZ Country Carriers to connect companies with waste with others (CSF a charity) that could utilise those products for the homeless and disadvantaged, planted the seed for the whole concept around LUP Global, SBG was also a major stepping stone in the formation and evolutionary story of the Social Entrepreneurs Network (now LUP Global).

So it is with much delight that we announce the official merger of SBG to LUP Global effective 1st July 2018.

Some of the major projects SBG had previously engaged in were:
– Setting up Greenfield Procurement sites within the Aged Care Industry based in Melbourne, Australia
– Major National Logistics, International Freight and Supply Chain Projects for the Biotechnology/Food Industry
– Strategy and Risk Management Consulting, including Insurance reviews for Education Providers, Manufacturers/Wholesalers and Charities
– Inventory Management, Procure-to-Pay Implementations for FMCG clients.

With the extensive Supply Chain experience, knowledge and established clientele of SBG, we are confident that the merger of SBG with LUP will enable us to add greater value to our network and holds us in great stead for the future.

The Official Formation of LUP APAC

September 2018 also marked a very important milestone for LUP Global. It was the official company formation of our first global regional division LUP Asia-Pacific (LUP APAC). We are so excited to have formed a dedicated division now to the Asia-Pacific region and where LUP Global was originally established. We are in the process of setting up our Asia-Pacific team and will be making further announcements in the coming months.

Catherine Weetman Guest Expert Part 4 :
Using circular approaches to reduce your inventory headaches

Many businesses aim to grow through increased transactions: more customers, new product development and shorter product lifecycles. We often depend on complex, long-distance, multi-tier supply chains, with long lead times and substantial safety stocks to offset uncertainty and disruptions.

These growth models can have hidden costs and risks. Those shorter lifecycles lead to regular product ‘churn’, with discounting or disposal of unsold and obsolete stock. We might have stock of components and raw materials that we’d already committed to. Resistance to ‘taking the financial hit’ can mean they remain in stock for another season (and another!), using up warehouse space and capital.

Brands may prefer to destroy stock rather than risk it appearing on the ‘grey market’, but that can damage reputation – you may have seen the shocked reaction to British fashion brand Burberry burning £28m of stock. Warranty or legal obligations could mean stocking spare parts for the obsolete product, too.

Circular models aim for durability, perhaps with a modular product design, enabling upgrade and repair through a simple component ‘swap-out’. Your customer can access the latest, efficient technology, saving the cost of a new product and avoiding disposal of the old one. This builds brand loyalty and reduces the risk of losing your customer when your competitors announce a new product! Offering spare parts and service offers could create new revenue streams.

Circular design strategies can simplify the Bill of Materials. Modular designs, with a narrower, less complex range of components, fixings and materials, enable a common pool of Stock Keeping Units (SKU) across your products. Spreading sales volume across fewer unique SKUs means greater demand for each SKU, helping reduce safety- and cycle-stock.

We can also rethink material specifications to reduce risk and cost volatility. By swapping finite for recycled materials, local sources could replace overseas suppliers. Shorter lead times mean less safety stock, and potentially reduced supplier Minimum Order Quantities. Are some of your materials at risk from geographic disruption, from trade wars, geopolitics or natural/weather disasters?

Maybe you could swap that ‘under pressure’ resource to a recycled or renewable, abundant material, with less need for safety stock to offset the risk. Emphasising local supplier relationships can help you build an agile, resilient supply chain!

Newscorner

This month on Newscorner, we wanted to provide links on some great podcasts or programmes currently available online or in your local area around circular economies for further viewing or information.

Plastics – Costing the Earth episode on BBC R4, available as podcast / listen again here, which covered the complexity of packaging choices and what we should be aiming towards.

Drowning in Plastic – Documentary 90mins on BBC TV – Available in the UK until 2nd November.

The Secret Life of Landfill – Documentary 90 mins on BBC4 TV with an archaeologist and a materials scientist. Available in the UK until 31st October.

Closing the loop film, available to request public screenings, or see link to watch on Vimeo.

Plus a great example of the use of low carbon jetfuel by Virgin Atlantic who partnered with LanzaTech to utilise industrial waste gases and other plentiful waste streams into sustainable jet fuel.

And…

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August 2018

August 2018

We are delighted to advise that some big changes are currently happening with LUP Global that will be announced over the coming months… As a result we will now be moving to a Quarterly newsletter. Our next newsletter will thus be released in October, then the following in January and April. We are delighted to advise that some big changes are currently happening with LUP Global that will be announced over the coming months… As a result we will now be moving to a Quarterly newsletter. Our next newsletter will thus be released in October, then the following in January and April. In the meantime, before the announcement of some big changes in our upcoming October Quarterly newsletter, we would like to bring you the third part of the Guest Expert series with Catherine Weetman. In this month’s update we delve with Catherine more in depth into the elements of her Circular Economy Framework from her book “A Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains. Repair, Remake, Redesign, Rethink” which can be purchased online from: A Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains.

Part 3 : Feature Guest Expert Catherine Weetman (UK) summarises circular economy approaches

Following last month’s introduction to Circular Economies (CE), in this month’s update, we look briefly at the approaches you might take for each of the elements in Catherine’s CE framework: Circular inputs (materials) should be from sustainable sources: either recycled instead of virgin materials; or renewable within the lifetime of the product.  For example, if you make a wooden table and it takes 15 years to grow the tree, the table should have a design life of more than 15 years.  The aim is security of supply, and resources that are safe for humans and living systems, throughout the cycle from material sourcing, through production and use to end-of-use. Product design aims for a durable, repairable product, able to be disassembled at the end of its final ‘life’ for effective recycling. A robust product could have more ‘use cycles’ and thus be resold by the user, or returned to the producer to be refurbished or remanufactured and then sold again.  Companies like Caterpillar and Cummins have dedicated remanufacturing business units that are highly profitable by accessing markets where customers struggle to afford a new product but still want to buy the ‘best in class’ brand. Simplifying the bill of materials to reduce the range and complexity of different materials helps improve the recyclability of the product. Modular designs can improve the speed and ease of repair and upgrades. Design of the production process should also aim to use less, and close the loop.  Can you recover energy and water?  Filtering chemicals or biomaterials from the water may provide a by-product to sell, or provide an opportunity for bio-energy.  Are there process inputs that can either be re-used, or repurposed?  Some major chemical companies are now providing ‘chemicals as a service’, with performance contracts based on the outcomes required and allowing producer and supplier to collaboratively reduce the volume of chemicals required. Circular flows – how might you recover products, components or materials from your customers, so you can repair, refurbish or remanufacture them to be resold?  Are there valuable resources or components that you could reuse, recycle or resell?  New businesses are creating value from those recovered materials, perhaps remanufacturing third-party products, reselling products that are durable and repairable, or as a resource recovery and recycling specialist. Business models aim to provide services and build long-term, win-win relationships, superseding the transactional models typical in the linear economy.  A range of approaches include performance contracts, ‘sharing’, short-term rental and longer-term leases (perhaps with maintenance included), and subscriptions. Enablers and accelerators can help to close the loop.  Enablers include new knowledge and different ways of thinking, such as green chemistry, industrial ecology, biomimicry and systems thinking.  Accelerators help scale-up the transformation, and include Product Stewardship legislation, Eco-design standards, taxes and incentives to encourage businesses and their customers to close the loop.

News Corner

One Less Thing: Living Without Trash | Manuela Baron A great Ted talk for inspiring us all as consumers to living with less trash

Stay tuned for further updates to come in October…

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