Results for Supply Chain
Comment: suppliers: a growing risk aversion?
May 01, 2004 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. Read more >
Suppliers: a growing risk aversion?
May 01, 2004 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. Read more >
Suppliers: from ripples to tsunami
November 01, 2003 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. Read more >
Supermarkets: is the industry delivering the goods?
September 01, 2003 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? Read more >
Suppliers: corporate responsibility from field to fork
July 01, 2003 We are coming up against limits of what consumer driven labels can achieve, unless the business case can be demonstrated. Read more >
Trends: Etireno: a new chapter in the history of supply chain issues
August 01, 2001 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. Read more >
Comment: suppliers, prioritising issues in the value chain
July 01, 2001 Comment on supply chain Read more >
Etireno: not the end of the story
June 01, 2001‘Etireno’ was the ‘slave ship’ off Benin, which hit the headlines in April. ‘Etireno’ means ‘end of story’ – ironic, for an incident which marks a new chapter in the history of corporate supply-chain issues. In the first of two articles, Mick Blowfield and Alison Gulliford examine why.
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