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Germany Raises the Stakes on Corporate Social Responsibility with Supply Chain Due Diligence

Logility

The new act joins relatively recent laws from Switzerland , Norway , the Netherlands , and the European Union to eliminate child and forced labor, improve working conditions, and institute environmentally responsible practices across the global supply chain. Companies that fail to meet these accountability requirements ?

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, and the UK have all passed similar due diligence, human rights, and anti-slavery legislation. A 2021 Deloitte study documented how 43% of UK consumers selected brands based on environmentally sustainable values. Consumer Buying Trends. A similar study in the U.S.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2023 and Enhancements for QAD Adaptive Applications

QAD

QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System) has made document collaboration easier by allowing collaboration in the draft state within Google Workspace. The benefit is a robust collaboration tool for developing new documents or changing documents.

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Ensuring Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Too often, however, those documents fail to prevent unacceptable working conditions. Partners in the effort include Ethical Training Initiatives in the United Kingdom and Norway , and the Netherlands-based Solidaridad. “We Just about every major manufacturer has a supplier code of conduct to ensure that workers are treated humanely.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

At the time of publishing, this service was still fairly limited in geographic scope, being offered to customers in Spain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Maersk Spot has robust API documentation , although the carrier does note that not all Spot functionality is available to third parties.