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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

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It doesn’t take a very deep search to uncover recent global headlines of abuses in production. In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z Let’s break it down. Recent High Profile Cases. z International, which owns Cadbury.

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The Supply Chain Impact of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

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Perhaps most notably, CHEP , a pallet and container pooling provider, is supporting UNHCR to perform an in-depth study of its global supply chain network. And that network rivals many large global corporations in its size and scale. Several companies and projects have emerged to address this critical question.

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Unethical Supply Chains Cost More Than Dollars and Cents

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Companies are increasingly encouraged or propelled to include human rights, environmental and social considerations within global supply chains. More recently, Cadbury’s supply chain in Ghana was found to include children as young as 10 working on cocoa farms while missing school.