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

Logility

Technology, particularly corporate social responsibility solutions supported by AI and machine learning, increase transparency by identifying employment practices and enabling corrective action. . This means companies must adopt technological solutions to supply chain management and social responsibility. The stakes are high.

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Responsible Sourcing! Making Sustainability Happen for Real!

Supply Chain Game Changer

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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This Week in Logistics New (May 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Chile has long been a hub of second-hand and unsold clothing, made in China or Bangladesh and passing through Europe, Asia or the United States before arriving in Chile, where it is resold around Latin America. Now is the time to make this happen, especially as supply chain companies around the world make their pledge towards sustainability.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

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. found that consumers would stop purchasing brands with ethics issues.

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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. For these and many other reasons, the role of purchasing and supplier management is highly strategic in the fashion industry.

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Five Predictions (About Prediction) that Every Procurement Professional Should Consider

Supply Chain View from the Field

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

Supply chain transparency provides information to consumers and other stakeholders about the nature and origin of products and is the cornerstone for social responsibility and sustainability. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000. About the Author.