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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

California, for example, passed the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 , which went into effect in January 2012. The US State Department estimates that there are 27 million slaves globally. In response, federal and state governments are taking action to drive down the use of slave labor in supply chains.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

Sustainability should impact procurement choices, such as favoring lower embodied carbon products over higher embodied carbon products. One way to quantify the global warming potential of embodied carbon is a document called an “environmental product declaration”, which is a way to provide transparency on a product’s total carbon footprint.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

Emily Murphy @scbrief Emily earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, for her major in Film and Digital Media and has experience in writing, publication and teaching. She is now an Editor at Aggregage for the site Supply Chain Brief.

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Achieving Decarbonization: How ProGlove Reduces Its Carbon Footprint With Arena + Yook

Arena Solutions

the California Climate Disclosure Laws. Most of the time we realize that this is information that also is used by supply chain managers or procurement then, as well. So it’s now becoming a core metric when we do requirement catalogs as well, which is really exciting because it means everyone’s getting involved.