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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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Needed: A New Way to Manage Risk in Low Cost Countries

NC State SCRC

Nowhere are disruptions more prevalent than in Low Cost Countries (LCC’s), which have become the focal point for outsourced contract manufacturing for major apparel brands such as Nike, Under Armour, Gap, Apple, and others. The most obvious way to create social responsibility might be just to avoid sourcing markets with low social standards.

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China and the global textile machinery

Exapro Hub

Every day, thousands of products and clothing purchased are made from its knitted fabrics. Increase of shipments of new short-staple spindles for the first time since 2013 (around 1.65m spindles). Pakistan: 32% / 68%. Source of some data: just-style.com). Most of the new short-staple spindles (95%) are shipped to Asia.

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