How Frameworks Facilitate Social Responsibility Compliance
I often get asked how to get started with implementing an Ethical Supply Chain strategy by potential customers. Having an extensive experience in working with Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), where as an example my organization helped out with initially...
How Green is your Chinese Supply Chain?
In 1987, as head of the U.N.’s World Commission on Environment and Development, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland issued the world’s first report that presented “Sustainability” as an appropriate objective for future global...
3 Steps To Make Your Sustainable Supply Chain Profitable
I hear it over and over, this myth, that says “sustainable” doesn’t equate with “profitable.” But is it true? As the global economy becomes even more complicated, international producers are recognizing that “sustainable”...
Why counterfeiting is growing in the supply chain today
These tough economic times make it difficult for international manufacturers to stay abreast of industry developments. Often, upper management focuses its attention on a limited number of company sectors. Oversight of other corporate concerns is delegated to...
How Corruption Contributes to the Human Trafficking and Slave Trade
The thought of human slavery is abhorrent to billions of people around the world, yet the practice continues to flourish. More than two-thirds of the world’s slaves (14.2 million) are industrial workers, who labor in deplorable conditions for little or no pay...
Illegal Merchandise can be Seized by International Border Agencies
Today’s international container shipping industry encompasses hundreds of ports in more than 200 countries; nine trade routes that connect all continents; as many as 500 business services agencies assisting along each route, and more than 680 million containers....
China Rolls Out Next Batch of Electronic Products Rules (China RoHS)
China’s manufacturing sector is experiencing its usual series of upheavals and revisions, many of which will directly impact the activities of off-shore producers. For electronics parts and components producers, July 1st, 2016 saw the entry into effect of the...
China’s International Outreach Promises Growth for International Producers
China’s “Made in China 25” plan continues to direct national policies on future internal investments. In May, the national government announced three more plans to pump up its manufacturing sector, including increased encouragement of technological...
