NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This week’s blog is a guest blog from a PhD Student, MD Rejaul Hasan. Rejaul is from Bangladesh, and is working on his PhD in the College of Textiles at NC State University, and is passionate on the subject of sustainable apparel from his home country. Who is making the bulk of profit in the apparel supply chain?

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NC State SCRC

MAY 1, 2020

An article written by my former PhD student, Rejaul Hasan, and I just came out this week in Contracting Excellence , the journal published by IACCM, which documents the catastrophe that is unfolding in Bangladesh, one of the world’s major exporters of garments for the apparel sector. These workers depend on it.

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Bangladesh Apparel Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain 59

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

The Green Supply Chain: True Sustainability or Just One Big Marketing Stunt? Sustainability. Unfortunately, sustainability and sustainable development are beginning to turn from green to grey, considering its ever-increasingly washed-out idealistic applications in business and society at large. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

In our ongoing discussion of labor and human rights violations in the supply chain, we’ve discussed in prior posts the problems that occurred in Bangladesh resulting in over 700 dead. Companies like Nike and Disney have publicly stated that they are not going to Bangladesh for apparel sourcing in the future.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” . In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. The European Commission published the proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence draft directive in February 2022.

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Purchasing Skills Manufacturing Procurement Cost Reduction Strategies Procurement Analytics 97

Arkieva

OCTOBER 1, 2015

She had a desire to make Green Eileen sustainable in the near future and she was looking for ways to do so. He compared this to the food industry when about 15 years ago, people started becoming aware of the source of their food. As proof, he pointed to the number of food documentaries on Netflix. You can watch the talk here.

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Sustainability Supply Chain Design Supply Chain Bangladesh 60

EcoVadis

MAY 21, 2014

Jury is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bergamo University (Bergamo, Italy), focusing his research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management. When embarking for the journey of supply chain sustainability, managers ideally need to balance breadth (i.e., number of supplier organizations covered by sustainable monitoring).

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