This blog entry from 'Network for Business Sustainability' provides some advice on how to improve sustainability practices, which can eventually enhance competitivenes. It refers to an academic study on empirical evidence published last year. 
For the second year in a row, Greenpeace USA has ranked Safeway number one in the U.S. on its grocery sustainability scorecard, which rates the Top 20 national grocery retailers on the sustainability of their seafood practices.... 
Within its New Manufacturing Index, Nike has developed a Sourcing & Manufacturing Sustainability Index (SMSI). The index ranks contract factory performance on on environmental (e.g. water, energy and carbon, and waste) and social metrics (e.g. health and safety, and labor management) . The SMSI is now being applied in the company's global supply chain. 
Apple Inc. has agreed to a jointly monitored audit of pollution controls at one of its supplier's factories in China, a move considered by environmental activists as a breakthrough in their efforts to persuade Apple to address environmental issues. 
What do laws on Wall Street financial reform, child labor, human trafficking, wildlife protection, jobs promotion, and food and product safety all have in common?... 
The Fair Labor Association Board of Directors approved Nestlé’s application to become a Participating Company in the FLA. Nestlé is the first company in the food industry to join FLA, following collaborations on special projects over the past several months to assess labor conditions and compliance risks throughout Nestlé’s supply chain of hazelnuts and cocoa. Levi Strauss & Co & CERES just annnounced the publication of a White Paper, which outlines Levis' commitment to improve conditions in its global supply chain through five factory-based pilots in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Egypt, Haiti and Pakistan. 
Buyers are set to benefit from an environmental sustainability scorecard developed by Procter & Gamble (P&G), which it has made freely available to other companies to use. 
RESOLVE has announced a new project—the Conflict-Free Smelter (CFS) Early Adopters Fund, which is raised by Intel, HP and GE. Its goal is to encourage smelters and refineries to join the CFS Program, "which seeks to end supply chain support for the sale of illicit minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the surrounding region". 
Results from Devoteam’s 2011 Green IT Survey, conducted among 350 organizations in 22 European countries, reveal that the use of environmental criteria in professional IT purchasing has increased significantly compared with 2010. 
Interesting article on Sustainable Supply Chain... 
Responding to a critical investigation of its factories, Foxconn, a top electronics supplier for Apple and other companies, pledged to curtail working hours and increase wages. 
Rooted in an environmental ethic, Helveta's garnering international recognition for its technology and efforts to reduce deforestation and eliminate illegal logging. |
Today, the blog from Procurement Leaders provides a quick snapshot on measures put in place to comply with the UK Bribery Act since its introduction one year ago. Its main conclusion: little as been done to instill change internally through more robust due diligence procedures.... 
A partnership between Nestlé, The Forest Trust and a leading palm oil supplier may have created a new model for more sustainability... 
Educating suppliers about the benefits of being more sustainable and helping them improve are key to engaging them, according to senior buyers. Hywel James, head of procurement systems and policy at Centrica, told delegates at the Sustainable Purchasing & Supply Summit in London yesterday some of the firm’s suppliers were concerned about audits. “I got a lot of concern and lot of feedback about [the audits] because they felt it was going to be a stick to beat them with,” he said. He added the company, which owns British Gas, saw the process as more of a tool to enable collaboration, identifying where suppliers were in terms of sustainability and where they could improve. 
The RESPECT Project is an initiative of the European Commission, supported by FLA, which encourages buyers and suppliers to engage in more responsible purchasing practices. In support of this project, FLA conducted an online survey among 25 buyers and 30 suppliers from various sectors throughout Asia, Central America, the Middle East and Bulgaria... 
Some 48 apparel brands and retailers including H&M, Nike, Wal-Mart, Levi's, Adidas, Gap and Marks & Spencer have been accused of purchasing clothing from suppliers who illegally discharge polluted water in China. 
Procter & Gamble and Heineken are launching innovative Sustainable Supply Chain scorecarding tools 
Why do we keep hearing about labor abuses in overseas factories like those of Apple-supplier Foxconn? Auditing and inspections are inadequate to solve the problem. Requiring companies to examine and publicly report on risks along their supply chains can help eliminate violations. By Elizabeth Umlas. BASF SE recently announced the launch of Hexamoll DINCH Trusted Partners Program, a system of auditing manufacturers and ensuring the safety and quality for toys and other soft PVC products throughout the supply chain. 
Interesting article on the lessons Apple could get from Nike... 
An interesting article by Procurement Leaders on the need to frame correctly Sustainable Procurement to deliver value. This is quite close to the model we developped in the INSEAD/PWC/EcoVadis whitepaper last year 
A new system will enable closer assessment of social and environmental performance of vendors in the supply chain. 
This article sets out the choices that fourteen Dutch multinational companies make: do they choose contracts, general terms and conditions and/or codes of conduct to regulate CSR in their supply chains? Furthermore, it explores the possibilities and limitations of these choices in terms of contract law... |
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