Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

In our ongoing discussion of labor and human rights violations in the supply chain, we’ve discussed in prior posts the problems that occurred in Bangladesh resulting in over 700 dead. Companies like Nike and Disney have publicly stated that they are not going to Bangladesh for apparel sourcing in the future.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Incidents like the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh have led to new laws, but laws are not always followed which makes it incumbent upon your business to ensure your supply chain is ethical. Transparency, or lack thereof, carries a huge reputational risk for companies. The stakes are high. Supply chains are opaque.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

The collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh last week , which killed at least 705 workers and injured thousands of others, has put a spotlight on a problem that plagues many supply chains: the use of slave labor. Companies are also starting to take action — albeit, reactively in many cases.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created at the source of our products, services, and consumption. Sustainability is created in the textile factories of Bangladesh. Sustainability is created from Responsible Sourcing. How can you make Responsible Sourcing a Reality? in this case, responsible sourcing. Suppliers and partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 237

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand.

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Jaggaer

JULY 23, 2019

More than virtually any other sector, sourcing and supplier management in the fashion industry have been exposed to intense scrutiny in recent years, while the functions have become of increasingly strategic importance to business success. These have been validated by the “who’s who” of the global fashion world.

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SCM Research

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The report also contains an analysis of three selected sectors (retail, construction and pharmaceutical) and additional case studies, including a case study on the 2013 Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh. Last week, a well-made special report by Raconteur, titled Supply Chain 2015 (pdf), was distributed in The Times of London.

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Supply Chain Digest

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

US PMI Falls below Key Level in August, Thousands of Trucks Taken off US Highway, New US Distribution Hubs Emerging, Companies Returning to Sourcing from Bangladesh

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” . In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. In the U.S., as a tornado struck a town in Kentucky in December 2021, workers at. Consumer Buying Trends.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 17, 2013

Just two months later, more than 100 people died in a garment fire in Bangladesh in November 2012. Walmart has worked hard on ethical sourcing. The factory had recently passed an ethical sourcing audit. A Walmart garment order was on the cutting room table. It was an order being manufactured by a supplier of Walmart.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 21, 2018

By some counts there are an estimated 11,000 garment factories in Bangladesh alone, many of them small and off the grid. Now, there’s an effort afoot to digitally map every garment factory in Bangladesh. The goal, says Bonanni, is “to make the Bangladesh apparel sector transparent, and be recognized globally as official.”

Apparel 40

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 1, 2014

  Due to higher labor and operating costs in China, more western firms now source their products from Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam, etc.     However, according to a study conducted by Transparency International in 2012, Bangladesh’s corruption index is equal to 144 (1 = least corrupt). [1]

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 23, 2017

By deploying the “fast fashion” business model, the apparel industry began to outsource garment manufacture to suppliers and subcontractors in low-cost countries, such as China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 10, 2022

Journalist Katy Askew explains, “A recent report from WWF found that 75% of the food humans consume comes from just 12 plant sources and five animal sources.”[8] The world has settled on some of its favorite crops, but food resilience has suffered as a result. ”[9]. . ”[9]. Concluding Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2018

The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. Fires in a Bangladesh sewing factory resulted in 112 deaths. We are attempting to define outside-in processes. Why Should You Care? Companies are busy.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 21, 2015

Monthly Wages Average Just 21 Dollars in Ethiopia Versus a Whopping 67 in Bangladesh. Plus, You Can Grow Your Own Cotton

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 2, 2018

A former journalist, she first became aware of the need for an intensive training regimen in Bangladesh, site of multiple labor violations and worker deaths. Often it’s those deeper levels that are the source of violations or inadequate working conditions. QuizRR’s program starts at Tier 1, but was designed to move upstream as well.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 26, 2022

In the meantime, many new technologies are used daily to produce clothing materials from cotton or other organic sources without using any chemical substances. “They want to spend money on their valuable products which should be good for their health.”

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 27, 2022

For the production, the appropriate raw material is sourced or produced based on the details provided by the fashion designers in the previous step. Countries, especially in South Asia, like China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, etc., Production of the Garment.

Apparel 138

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 21, 2022

Water pollution shrank or completely stopped on the beaches of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Maldives. Arena helps manage this information, accelerate new product introduction (NPI), and drive continuous product improvement with a single source of product truth.

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DocShipper Sourcing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It is a sourcing strategy used by the largest and even the smallest retailers. Although there are several countries that are becoming increasingly attractive to clothing importers such as Bangladesh and Vietnam, China remains the largest exoporter of clothing in the … The post How to import clothes from China?

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software Gartner 40

Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

Big players in the food industry, like Nestlé, Unilever, Walmart, and Dole, use blockchain to trace their products downstream to the original source but also upstream through the distribution network. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 3, 2021

It even helped National Geographic track a discarded plastic bottle from Bangladesh to the Indian Ocean. Enormous volumes of data processed from numerous internet-connected sources.”. Fifth generation mobile networks with high-speed, near-zero lag for real time data processing.”.

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Arkieva

OCTOBER 1, 2015

He compared this to the food industry when about 15 years ago, people started becoming aware of the source of their food. In a similar way, he suggested that events such as the factory collapse in Bangladesh are raising the awareness of the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

Sustainability 60

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DocShipper Sourcing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

From the slow but sure recovery of trade in the port of Shanghai, to the deep interest that port of Saudi Arabia in Bangladesh. Sourcing services. Also, news about the hurricane Sam which is on its way to the … The post International trade September 2021 News [Procurement – Logistics – Compliance] appeared first on ?Sourcing

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain is an essential tool that can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2016

I asked that question almost three years ago following the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers and injured thousands of others. How many slaves are in your supply chain? Based on recent reports, it appears that, three years later, the answer to that question remains the same: We don’t know.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 30, 2011

Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam experienced similar wage-related strikes and walkouts. New strategies and tactics must be employed to efficiently serve these markets, whether with goods and services within the country or through global sourcing and logistics.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

China’s rising cost and China’s RMB appreciation have motivated some western firms to source their products from other low-cost countries in South-East Asia. Bangladesh is an attractive place for western companies (e.g.,   When more firms source from Bangladesh, more contract manufacturers enter the market to meet demand. 

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EcoVadis

MARCH 23, 2016

From brinks in Bangladesh to cotton in Zambia, the list currently reports 102 goods linked to forced labor. The importer must provide certificates of origin and a statement showing in detail that he had made every reasonable effort to determine the source of the merchandise and all its components.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

As a result of the growth in the outsourcing of manufacturing worldwide, ethical problems are also increasing in the supply chain: a catastrophic fire in a contract manufacturer’s overcrowded factory in Bangladesh and recalls of branded products containing harmful substances, to name but a few. 37 | Self-assessment of chain collaboration.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

On-going research is needed to capture social media, “big data”, qualitative reporting insights, and other non-traditional data to enable predictive insight, and build a shared source of truth for factory and supply chain risk.

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