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Taking the Temperature: Ethical Supply Chain Management
A report exploring how ethical supply chain management has developed, good practice and the challenges for the future
Taking the Temperature explores the issues of ethical supply chain management. It looks at emerging best practice and highlights case study examples from a range of companies and countries. The publication provides companies with practical guidance on how to tackle the ethical management of their supply chain.”Years of hard work by companies and other organisations have led to real changes in the treatment of the world’s workers,” says Impactt Limited, authors of the publication. “But the developments of the past five years have taught us that there are no right answers or easy solutions to the highly complex issues of ethical trading. And, while the companies that champion these issues have taken some impressive steps, other companies still ignore supply chain ethics.”According to Alan Roberts, chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative, “ethical supply chain management is one of the greatest challenges facing business today”. He describes the IBE publication as “an excellent summary of issues and developments” and says that “Taking the temperature will help to increase understanding and guide companies through the complexities of trading ethically”. Copies of Taking the temperature: Ethical supply chain management are available from the Institute of Business Ethics:IBE, 24 Greencoat Place, London SW1P 1BE, tel: 020 7798 6040, e: info@ibe.org.uk