Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2017

After publishing a series of reports on visibility, I facilitated a dinner between two major manufacturers. One dinner participant laughed as he said, “The more efficient we try to make procurement, the more we screw it up!” Background. This realization hit me after completing two years of research.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 21, 2023

Procurement managers are now asked to address ESG issues in their sourcing and foreign manufacturing operations. Meanwhile, trade compliance managers are tasked with ensuring that the procurement department is following the rules. This article will focus on European Union trade regulations because the EU leads in this area.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The root cause of this initiative was the 1998 World Cup where it was revealed that child laborers in India were manufacturing the soccer balls. And companies are taking a similar stance, as we continue to see manufacturers and retailers prioritize suppliers and partners that are dedicated to ethical sourcing and sustainability initiatives.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In the first Fairphone that will be released in December 2013, conflict-free tin and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been integrated in the manufacturing of the phone, but that’s only a first step. To do so, we are searching for solutions by engaging in partnerships to come with alternatives to current models.

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QAD

JUNE 28, 2022

And, also served as a wake up call across the manufacturing and other industries, not just the textile and garment segment. In the early 2000s, Apple faced massive criticism based on a number of suicides at their Foxconn outsourced manufacturing sites, primarily thought to be driven by poor woking conditions.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 16, 2022

This is due to their importance for manufacturing advanced batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines and other green technology, and because of the extent to which China, Russia, and countries with poor ESG regulations—like the Democratic Republic of Congo, the largest source of cobalt—dominate mining and production of these materials.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Adhesion to the principles laid out by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is key to ensuring that automobile manufacturers operate in consortium to improve the industry’s global economic throughput. The latent potential of this workforce is a precious resource waiting to be nourished.

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