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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Companies are using social audits, which are often ineffective without essential support. . Technology, particularly corporate social responsibility solutions supported by AI and machine learning, increase transparency by identifying employment practices and enabling corrective action. . Yet you may need to buy from these countries.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company’s 12 brands are organized into three categories: Outdoor, Active and Work/Work-Inspired. The company sells their goods in over 125nations and has approximately 1300 company owned stores.

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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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Supplier Management and Sourcing in the Fashion Industry – Under the Spotlight

Jaggaer

Digital transformation is delivering benefits to many of the world’s leading fashion companies, especially in Italy, where roughly half of the leading fashion concerns have implemented JAGGAER solutions. With the price of high street fashion having fallen dramatically in recent years, many companies need to stay in consumers’ minds.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

The company issued this statement at the time: “We explicitly prohibit child labour in our operations and have been working relentlessly to take a stand against this.” In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. A similar study in the U.S.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? So, what is supply chain visibility, traceability and transparency and how are companies dealing with these challenges if not by blockchain? Supply chain visibility. In the case of the second E.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? So, what is supply chain visibility, traceability and transparency and how are companies dealing with these challenges if not by blockchain? Supply chain visibility. In the case of the second E.