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BSR Insight Articles About Supply Chain

We found 67 BSR Insight articles on this topic; most recently published at the top.

Sustainable Procurement in Practice: AT&T, Best Buy, and Dell

Celine Suarez, Manager, Advisory Services

One year after the launch of BSR’s Center for Sustainable Procurement (CSP), our first research paper captures four main insights from projects with AT&T, Best Buy, and Dell that covered a range of product complexities and supplier relationships: Read more 

Posted: June 18, 2013 | Topics: Supply Chain, Sustainable Consumption

The Other Women’s Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World

Racheal Meiers (née Yeager), Director, HERproject

Note: This is part of a series of BSR articles on the tragedy in Bangladesh that will look at root causes, challenges, and how to prevent it from happening again. Read more 

Posted: May 29, 2013 | Topics: Consumer Products, Economic Development, Labor Rights, Supply Chain, Women & Sustainability

The Human Rights of Workers and Their Families: A Conversation about Living Wage with Ethique sur l’étiquette's Nayla Ajaltouni

Sunita Grote, MBA Class of December 2013, INSEAD

By providing a living wage, businesses can support their commitment to human rights and ensure that workers and their families achieve a life of dignity with an acceptable standard of living. Nayla Ajaltouni, coordinator of Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette, who recently spoke at BSR’s Paris office, took some time to talk with us about why the implementation of living wage has been limited to date, how it can benefit both workers and business, and how changing purchasing practices can make a difference on this issue. Her organization—a network of French NGOs, unions, and consumer organizations—promotes labor rights in the garment industry and its supply chain. Read more 

Posted: April 23, 2013 | Topics: Human Rights, Labor Rights, Supply Chain

Safe and Sustainable Chemicals: The Case for Action

Corinna Kester, Associate, Advisory Services Mark Rossi, Chair, BizNGO

Note: This is part one of a two-part series highlighting societal trends and drivers for companies to address chemical impacts. Part two will offer examples of and information about how companies can approach chemical management. Read more 

Posted: April 2, 2013 | Topics: Consumer Products, Environment, Supply Chain, Toxicity & Product Design

Getting to Know Your Suppliers: The Three ‘A’s’ for Improving Climate Performance

Ryan Schuchard, Manager, Climate and Energy

For the past five years or so, global companies have started to seriously address climate change by using one of their biggest levers for impact: the supply chain. Efforts include the CDP Supply Chain initiative, industry collaborations such as the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition, and individual company initiatives like those from Walmart. In spite of this, most supply chain emissions-reduction activities have not been reaching their full potential. Read more 

Posted: March 26, 2013 | Topics: Climate Change, Energy, Supply Chain

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