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

Requis

Supply chain and logistics consultant, educator, and podcast host Rob O’Byrne has over 40 years of supply chain experience. He provides a wide array of educational content for supply chain practitioners, including the Supply Chain Secrets channel on YouTube and a number of books, including his latest, Supply Chain Secrets.

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

Jaggaer

Performance management must be done regularly in order to be sure of always choosing the best supplier, while also educating others on how to improve their performance and grow their business. The fashion industry is also, by nature, uniquely dynamic, mercurial even.

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Analytics Should Focus on A Culture of Factory Safety for Workers in Low Cost Country Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

This will never work – particularly as we move into an era of global outsourcing and contract manufacturing in low cost countries such as Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and others in Asia. People were not aware of safety issues, and often there was not a culture of safety in the factory.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

Despite the disaster at the Savar garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, data indicates that many consumers continue to demand the cheapest obtainable goods, regardless of human cost. import data, to identify opportunities for products that could be economically reshored, and helps educate importers on the benefits of doing so.

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Guest post: Sustainable monitoring in supply chains: it’s time for companies to reconnect with their stakeholders.

EcoVadis

health and safety, training and education) and Human rights (e.g., or the recent catastrophe in Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Surewiecki, 2013). Monitoring systems, indeed, may differ in the way they use and integrate product-based and process-based indicators pertaining to different sustainability areas such as environment (e.g.,

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The World Needs More Fertilizer — and That’s No Bulls**t

Enterra Insights

India, China, Bangladesh, and Ghana) but those regimes are going to place tremendous fiscal pressure on budgets already stressed by substantial government outlays during the COVID-19 epidemic.” They write, “These problems will spread in the coming months; ultimately all farmers around the world will be impacted.

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Responsible Sourcing! Making Sustainability Happen for Real!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Sustainability is created in the textile factories of Bangladesh. Utilize your Supplier CoC, risk assessments, and RFx as opportunities to educate them of the importance of aligning with your goals and initiatives. Sustainability is created in the mining pits in the Nordics. Sustainability is created in the jungles of Latin America.