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What is the True Cost of Sustainable Apparel from Bangladesh? Insights from Harvard “Sustainable Models for the Apparel Industry” Conference

NC State SCRC

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. Are big name brands really paying a fair price to a supplier in Bangladesh? This week’s blog is a guest blog from a PhD Student, MD Rejaul Hasan.

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Bangladesh Working Conditions: A Human Rights Issue? Or a Supplier Capacity Issue?

Supply Chain View from the Field

The recent press in the Wall Street Journal and other papers on Walmart’s fire in Bangladesh is raising the ire of corporate responsibility groups and human rights groups alike. So if you are tier one supplier in a country like Bangladesh, and a major retailer is your customer – what will you do?

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

Logistics Viewpoints

In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. That of course, works to VF’s advantage as well. VF had committed itself to largely selling goods to consumers in the same region they are manufactured in. The company began investing in agility and digitization before the epidemic began.

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Has China lost its relevance as a production location?

Supply Chain Movement

This is one of the most common questions that I’m asked when holding keynote speeches, workshops or supply-chain training courses. This is still very favourable in comparison with wages within the EU, and wages have increased more significantly in other nearby countries, such as Vietnam and Bangladesh to name but a few.

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Before and After Rana Plaza: from Reaction to Prevention

EcoVadis

One consequence of squeezed budgets is the lack of health and safety oversight, which coupled with lax regulatory compliance practices have led to horrific incidents such as last November 2012 Tazreen fire , and the recent Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh. And this is ongoing.

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The World is About to Get Even More Connected through the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

And of course, these devices help us to send, transfer, and collect important data anywhere and at any point in time.” It even helped National Geographic track a discarded plastic bottle from Bangladesh to the Indian Ocean. ” He left out one of the most important parts of the IoT ecosystem: analytics.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

I think what’s happened particularly in the last ten years is that the focus on cost reduction and being competitive has really driven that need for rationalization in the supply chain, and of course for the globalization that we’ve seen. This year, of course, everyone knows what supply chain is about. That’s been a massive trend.