Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
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Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
PART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 ment 195Involving suppliers in new project development 216Public and regulated supply management 227Electronic supply 246The relevance of commodities 259Chapter 19 Services procurement 273Chapter 14Environmental and ethical issues in supply management1Alm of chapterThe aim of this chapter is to prov Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 ide readers with a clear understanding of the growing importance of environmental and ethical concerns to purchasing and supply managementLearning outEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
comesAt the end of this chapter, readers will:■understand why purchasing and supply management should be concerned with environmental and ethical suppPART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 ange of implementations issues that are important to ‘green supply’.IntroductionThe purpose of this chapter is to explore the connections between the sourcing decisions made within purchasing and supply and some of the effects those decisions have on the world, in terms of biophysical (for example, Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 air, water and soil pollution), economic (for example, loss of habitat and even warfare) and ethical (for example, the use of slavery and child labourEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
). Traditionally, little attention would have been given to such remote and exotic issues within the Purchasing office. Now, however, the issues are iPART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 onmental2 aspect of supply chain management, defining such concepts as sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and environmental soundness. We shall discuss the Supply Strategist’s potential contribution to increasing environmental soundness. Lastly, the chapter identifies and discu Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 sses several important implementation issues.196 Part 3 • Strategic issues in supply chain managementWhy should Purchasing be concerned?In October 200Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
0, as part of its weekly investigative programme Panorama, the BBC aired an expose on supply chains in the sports clothing industry. The programme telPART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 was widely discussed by rhe British media and engendered considerable public outcry. The two companies’ purchasing strategies were immediately front-page news; both immediately sought to quell the adverse publicity with promises to remove such practices from their supply chains. A year later, the Am Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 erican journalist Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation in which he exposed abusive labour practices in the factories processing rhe hamburgers anEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
d potatoes served in US restaurants. The book cites damage to American agriculture as a result of the massive commercial power of a small number of laPART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 redients in rhe food that Americans consume. While several large industrial food companies immediately criticised Schlosser, they were unable to cite any specific errors in the damning book he had written (Schlosser, 2002: 276). The book was widely reviewed in the international media, generating muc Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 h exposure and considerable public discussion. The debate in the connection between obesity and fast food was fuelled by the evidence Schlosser providEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
ed, driving some chains to reduce rhe excessive portions and introduce salads as alternatives to hamburgers.In the UK, the code on child labour in thePART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 s rhe BSE crisis5 have led to stringent legislation and control of supply. The public, it seems, have begun to realise that their purchasing decisions have an impact on the earth and its inhabitants.Before the early 1990s, the notion that Purchasing and Supply managers might have a significant inter Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 est in environmental or ethical issues was barely evident -it was limited to rhe activists of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as GreenpeaceEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
or Friends of rhe Earth. Managers in Purchasing and Supply were able to maintain this ‘hands-off approach because organisations had for some time crePART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 is approach often proved untenable.Firms increasingly assessed their own environmental ‘footprints’ and those of their suppliers. A standard emerged - first as BS7570 and then ISO 14000 - as a reference or proxy for good environmental practices. These standards became widely accepted by industry as Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 a business ‘totem’, much like the ISO 9000 quality standard two decades earlier, and were used as promotional points for those firms that gained accreEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
ditation. For example, a visitor to Toyota’s massive Takaoka plant near Nagoya in Japan in 1998 would be greeted first not by a showroom of new cars bPART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 or part of the giant firm’s strategy between 1996 and 2000, signalling its intention to position itself as the leader in developing cars that used fewer natural resources.Chapter 14 ■ Environmental and ethical issues in ouppiy IIIC3I lagcilldllFrom using the accreditation of its factories as a marke Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 ting device, Toyota went on to develop and successfully market a ‘hybrid-powered’ car (the petrol/electric Prius), sold on the benefits of its reducedEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
biophysical impact and fuel economy.The popular press further highlighted environmental and ethical concerns. For example, rainforest destruction in PART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 our in the production of coffee beans destined for European cafés.6 The European Union subsequently established Directives on recycling consumer products - including motor cars and packaging/packaging waste.Such emerging concern for the environmental impacts and ethics associated with purchasing dec Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 isions mirrors the concern for quality, health and safety that emerged in the 1970s. These concerns are clearly vital to sustainable business but wereEbook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2
viewed as nuisances and unwelcome extra costs. Yet in the 1970s it became increasingly clear that quality management could be self-financing (throughPART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managem Ebook Strategic supply management: Principles, theories and practice - Part 2 ether environmental and ethical concerns in rhe supply chain could also be self-financing.PART 3STRATEGIC ISSUES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTChapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Environmental and ethnical issues in supply managemGọi ngay
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