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. The factory owner was shocked. “How
Supply Chain View from the Field
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force. For example, do we have the information on when we are buying energy – during peak hours or not?
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NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 28, 2015
In other words, many supply chain and purchasing solutions looks at historical transaction activity (what happened in the past and is captured in our ERP systems). For example, do we have the information on when we are buying energy – during peak hours or not?
Supply Chain View from the Field
MAY 6, 2013
News of the increasing death toll in Bangladesh continues to pour in, with the latest at 600 found dead in the rubble of the Rama factory complex. Demonstrators are protesting apparel offices (such as Gap’s offices in San Francisco) to demand better working conditions in Bangladesh factories. But this is not enough.
NC State SCRC
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
As the industry has grown, it moved over to Japan, Italy, Canada, and other flowed from there to Mexico, Europe, Portugal, Turkey, than Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Indonesia – and eventually settled in China and in Bangladesh. That is where most of the business goes today – Bangladesh and Pakistan.
EcoVadis
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Some of the gaps the report reveals include: One in five businesses do not have any software tools, and 87% are still using Excel or a mix of disconnected tools. 54% of businesses do not collect feedback from their suppliers, and only 48% of firms have effective risk management in place for more than half of their key suppliers. .
Freightera
APRIL 17, 2020
And when they know the rules, they can see how to excel within those rules. At the provincial level, we’re saying that by 2024, you will not be able to buy a new fossil fuel vehicle in BC. I go to work, and Google knows I went to work, or that I purchased diapers or something else. Do we just pull out of Bangladesh?
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