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Comment: suppliers: a growing risk aversion?
While impressive steps are being made down the road of compliance, future debate about responsible supply chain management must begin to centre on good relationships, not risk.
Comment: suppliers
The recent findings from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply make salutary reading..
 
Suppliers: from ripples
to tsunami
Since the mid 1990s, companies have been pursuing supply chain strategies based on monitoring and compliance. It's a good start, but the incentive piece is still missing. Working together to strip out the disincentives would be a good next step in building the sustainable
supply chain puzzle.
Supermarkets: is the
industry delivering the
goods?
As the government prepares its verdict on the Safeway's takeover, Briefing considers the wider role that the supermarket industry plays in UK society. The sector’s main players makes much of their commitment to corporate social responsibility, but does this make much of a difference?
 
Suppliers: corporate
responsibility from field
to fork
We are coming up against limits of what consumer driven labels can achieve, unless the business case can be demonstrated.
Comment: suppliers:
corporate responsibility
from field to fork
We are coming up against limits of what consumer driven labels can achieve, unless the business case can be demonstrated.
 
Suppliers
Fair trade leap
Comment: suppliers: fair
trade leap
Fair trade leap
 
Trends: Etireno: a new
chapter in the history of
supply chain issues
In the second of two articles on corporate supply chain issues, Mick Blowfield and Alison Gulliford look at what the socially responsible company should do about its value chain.
Comment: suppliers,
prioritising issues in
the value chain
Comment
 
Suppliers: prioritising
issues in the value chain
A missing Nigerian ship in April prompted a massive debate about child labour in West Africa. Implications for companies are far-reaching - and whilst it pays to listen to critics, companies themselves are ultimately the ones best equipped to tackle the issues.