Labor and Human Rights. With the advent of disasters like Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, as well as factory work in low cost countries, working conditions are becoming a hot button for many companies. An important transition into creating transparency is when large organizations can create a “federated” network, by integrating smaller firms into their network and drive a common purpose is a concept that is emerging as key to global competition. Some of the issues will include:

Key Topics of the Webinar: 

• How can companies begin to understand supply chain risks in the form of human and labor rights violation, transparency, and environmental issues?
• How to drive federated policies that include common operating procedures, established standards, driving aligned supply chain processes and tacit understanding of how things work.
• How can procurement work with shared holders to create shared values around working conditions and embed them in the supply base
• How will creation of full transparency into operations across the extended enterprise impact our supply chain human resource policies?

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