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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

A recent Quality Digest article suggested that “ethical supply chain management is being fueled by consumer demand, profitability, and visibility. In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. In the U.S., A similar study in the U.S.

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The Importance of Supply Chain in the Apparel Industry!

Supply Chain Game Changer

AWL India is a leading supply chain management provider that offers world-class solutions for managing the supply chain of businesses operating within the apparel industry. Countries like China, Bangladesh, and India all are battling for offering a superior cost to the pieces of clothing purchasers to hold the export share high.

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Responsible Sourcing! Making Sustainability Happen for Real!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. It’s become the keyword that you see in article titles and hit like or share when scrolling by? Sustainability is created in the textile factories of Bangladesh. Sustainability. Get People Excited and Form an Initiative.

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6 Tips for Creating Private Label Products for Amazon FBA

EMERGE App

She could easily be in Brooklyn, Bahamas or Bangkok and she could still do what she enjoyed most about her work: conduct interviews and write sharp articles for various publications. Your website and Amazon FBA are just tools for your business. These tools work for everyone the same way regardless of what products you’re selling.

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Ensuring Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

The solution lies in adequate training at the most important level — the workers themselves. A former journalist, she first became aware of the need for an intensive training regimen in Bangladesh, site of multiple labor violations and worker deaths. Management has to feel that this is a tool that it can use to train its employees.

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The Limitations and Evolving Role of On-site Supplier Audits: 4 Reasons They Are Starting to Miss the Target

EcoVadis

However the empirical evidence overwhelmingly indicates a significant gap exists in making audits a truly effective tool for supply chain risk management. Audits are ineffective tools for detecting, reporting , or correcting environmental and labour problems in supply chains.”. Anuksha Boojhawon, Junior CSR Analyst. [1] 1] Brown G.