Reports

Continuous Improvement Partnership Approach

Saturday Oct 23, 2010

BSR Staff

This report was prepared by BSR in collaboration with the Beyond Monitoring Working Group for the purpose of defining a practical approach to supply chain partnerships between companies and their suppliers. The report presents initial principles and a process for engagement in this area, along with management systems criteria, which can be used to evaluate suppliers' systems and guide the process of improvement.

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Empowering Women in Toy Factories: Insights from Our Pilot in India

Lucia Flores Guevara, Associate, HERproject, BSR

BSR and the Ethical Toy Program collaborated on a women’s empowerment program that was piloted in three toy factories in India with a total population of 824 workers—including 198 women. From the pilots, we gained several insights into what it takes to develop successful programs to advance women in the workplace.

Supply Chain Visibility: Traceability, Transparency, and Mapping Explained

Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR; Cliodhnagh Conlon, Manager, BSR

BSR experts explain three concepts for gaining and demonstrating visibility in multi-tier supply chains: Traceability, mapping, and transparency. What are these concepts, how do they differ, and what do they offer?

Three Ways Business Is Combating Modern Slavery

Shubha Chandra, Manager, BSR

The business community has a critical role to play in the fight against modern slavery, a practice that spans all business sectors and geographies. As we commemorate the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, GBCAT welcomes all companies to join us in our shared fight against modern slavery.

Blockchain through the Whole Supply Chain

Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR

The term “global supply chain” conjures up images of large ports filled with colorful arrays of ocean-bound shipping containers being systematically partitioned for each destination or commercial freight trucks arriving at highly-organized distribution centers. But global supply chains all start before that point—and our actions to make supply chains more visible, traceable, and sustainable need to start at the beginning.

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