BSR Insight Articles About Supply Chain
HERfinance: Empowering Workers in the Supply Chain Through Financial Inclusion
Chhavi Ghuliani, Manager, Advisory Services
A few months ago, my colleagues and I visited a number of factories in India to launch BSR’s new HERfinance initiative, which aims to bring low-income workers into the formal financial system and help them better manage their incomes. Read more
Size Wise: Where Small Suppliers Fit Into a Sustainable Supply Chain
Laura Ediger, Associate Director, Advisory Services
Sometimes, small is better. Read more
Mills and Sundries Working Group: New Tools to Help Suppliers Lead on Sustainability
Tiffany Finley, Manager, Advisory Services
BSR’s new model for its Mills and Sundries Working Group offers tools to help suppliers take the lead on sustainability issues. Read more
Case in Point: Implementing Sustainable Agriculture in Walmart China's Supply Chain
Laura Ediger, Associate Director, Advisory Services
The only place dark enough was a small room in the corner of a storage building, so the group of 20-odd farmers crowded around the door peering in at the images projected on the wall. For the next two hours, everyone listened as Liu Guosheng, a professor from the Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, explained how they could treat yellow rust on their pear crops, also known as “chicken-foot disease” for the marks it leaves on the skin of the fruit. But instead of coaching them on spraying pesticides, the professor was teaching farmers about an integrated pest management approach that incorporates better cultivation and hygiene practices.>/p> Read more
What Total Cost of Ownership Offers Sustainable Procurement
Jessica Davis Pluess, Manager, Research
What if procurement and sustainability managers in your company spoke the same language? It's likely that the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO) would find its way into the conversation. For procurement managers, TCO captures the costs associated with a product over its lifetime—from the development and design of a product through its use, maintenance, and disposal. Similar to the way sustainability managers think about the impacts of a product on the environment and society throughout its lifecycle, TCO takes a long-term view of the value a product brings to a company by evaluating the direct and indirect costs of a product at the time of purchase. Over the next few months, BSR's new Center for Sustainable Procurement (CSP) will be exploring ways the TCO model and its application could support the incorporation of sustainability information and data into procurement decisions. Is there an opportunity to align TCO and lifecycle assessment (LCA) information to form a total impact and ownership model? Read more
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