This document discusses various topics related to corporate social responsibility and supply chain management in different industries. It addresses issues like human rights, child labor, sustainability practices, and ethics in global supply chains. Several articles summarize efforts by large companies to improve oversight and accountability in their supply chains as well as challenges around ensuring ethical practices in outsourced production.

1. Supply Chain
Corporate Social
Responsibility in
the Baby Market
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Baby, Green,
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tainability, Child
Labor, Supply
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We can't give
these companies
a free pass just
because their
stuff is cute, or
trust that they have our best interests at heart because they're catering to our little bundles of joy.
How Walmart's Green Performance Reviews Could Change Retail for Good
Incentives matter and cultures shift over time. Hard-won operational changes like modifying
performance reviews may not be sexy, but the results can be profound. And when it's the world's
largest retailer changing its buying criteria, the ripples will likely be felt around the world.
Federal Contractors and Consumers Target of President's Speech on Human Trafficking

2. President Obama has underscored that the prevention of slavery is the responsibility of government
and the private sector and consumers. As a result, he reframed the issue into one not of us and them
but us - period. We, the collective we, are the solution to human trafficking.
Workers Crash Walmart Forum On Food Supply Ethics
Read More: United Farm Workers, Walmart, Walmart Food Supply, Supply Chain, Walmart Food
Ethical Sourcing, Labor Unions, Warehouse-Workers, Global Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Video, Labor,
Labor Rights, Ethics, Food Supply, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Philip Morris, Unions, Business
News
WASHINGTON -- Representatives from the world's largest private employer and other Fortune 500
companies joined worker advocates, trade groups and gove...
Who Owns Social and Environmental Performance in an Outsourced Economy?
How far should a company go to ensure its suppliers are appropriately managing social and
environmental conditions?
DynCorp Does Due Diligence
Dyncorp's new Supply Chain organization, stood up last year, has introduced several tools that are
updated regularly to evaluate subcontractors on an ongoing basis.
Stakeholder Relationships: Key to a Sustainable Enterprise
Read More: Customer Loyalty, Stakeholders, Regulation, Supply Chain, Employee Engagement,
Southwest Airlines, Apple, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Csr, Customer Experience, Business News
Each relationship is an intangible asset of the business. As any accountant will tell you, assets can
either appreciate or depreciate or hold their value.
Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'
Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Global Supply Chain, Cargo, Video,
Economy, Davos, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Supply Chain, Janet Napolitano Homeland

3. Security, Dhs, National Press Club, Politics News
WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland
security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...
Krugman: Companies That Contribute To Growth 'Don't Exist In Isolation'
Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana's governor, made the
Republicans' reply to President Obama's State of the Union addr...
Demand Planning: Smarter Commerce Keeps You Ahead of Demand (VIDEO)
Smarter Commerce from IBM optimizes supply chain efficiency and business process integration,
helping to boost revenue, build loyalty, and keep busine...
At UPS Worldport, The World Comes Together
Read More: Fedex, Ups, Patch Road Trip, Ups Worldport, FedEx Corp, Louisville, Supply Chain,
Kentucky, Ups Logistics, Toshiba, Logistics, Dhl, Business News
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Every night, hundreds of workers get on buses and are dropped off here at the
UPS Worldport. They spend a few hours putting package...
Scary Business Plans
Sweeney Todd is a case study in vertical integration. Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett join forces in a
common venture. Specifically, he kills some of his customers and then she bakes them into meat

4. pies. After you're done gagging, consider what this does to their supply chain.
Technology's Place in Transforming Agriculture
Read More: Food, Supply Chain, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Farmers Markets,
Agriculture, Farming Business, Agriculture Business, Agribusiness, Food Suppliers, Food Industry,
Business News
The distended relationship between farms and individuals is the fundamental problem in the food
system we've inherited. Supply chains and the corporate cultures that house them keep information
isolated.
From Icebergs to Autos, Effects of the Japan Earthquake Are Long-Lasting
Over 70 percent of organizations recorded at least one supply chain disruption in 2010. The
earthquake and its long-lasting aftershocks to global supply chains have prompted a complete
rethink in supply chain management.
Agility in Agriculture: Why Farms Will Succeed and Food Corporations May Not
A farmer and a corporate procurement manager probably agree that it will be harder and harder to
force a static basket of consistent, timely products out of the land for years to come. But the two
have wildly different capacity to deal with this reality.
The Lifecycle of a T-shirt
Read More: Recycling, Clothing, Garment Industry, Cotton, Environment, Green News,
Environmentalism, Supply Chain, Green Living, Textiles, Pollution, Air Pollution, Shipping, Green
News
Do you ever stop and think about what the impact of a t-shirt is on the planet? You'd probably be
surprised to learn what's involved in the lifecycle of just one t-shirt.
OECD: Globalization Has Made Economic Crises More Likely
Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Gas Prices, Mortgage Crisis, Supply Chain, Eurozone-Debt-Crisis,
Globalization, John Lipsky, Imf, Greek Debt Crisis, Japanese Earthquake, Oecd, Business News

5. Advances in communication, information, transportation and trading technology have helped web
together nations into interconnected and interdependent ...
Markets Drop On News Governments Will Collectively Tap Oil Reserves
Read More: Market, Libya, Dow Jones, Energy-Reserves, Japan Earthquake, Muammar Gaddafi,
High Energy Prices, Stock Market, Nasdaq, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruption, S&P 500, Video,
Business News
NEW YORK - Oil prices crashed more than $8 to a four-month low on Thursday after the world's
consumer nations said they would band together to aid...
Economic Confidence Plummets With Few Signs Of Recovery: Gallup
Read More: European Debt Crisis, Supply Chain, 112th Congress, High Gas Prices, Greek Debt
Crisis, Gallup, Japanese Tsunami, Barack Obama, Euro, Video, Business News
Beset by rising gas prices and a stubbornly-high unemployment rate, American economic confidence
has suddenly plummeted, according to a new poll. ...
The 'Surprises' of the Japanese Crisis and the Investment Lessons to Learn
Read More: Shares, Spurn, Anti-Nuclear, Investments, Sales, Peugeot, Green, Nuclear,
Consumption, Business, Power Plants, Merkel, Eu, Nissan, Autos, Politics, Expectations, Bulgari,
Bailout, Wealth, Germany, Voters, Kobe, Power Disruptions, Earnings, Fund, Uncertainty, Coalition,
Electrical, Stocks, Protect, Money, Earthquake, Lessons Learned, Supply Chain, Demand, Tiffany,
Consumer, Investing, Tsunami, Imports, Aftershock, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami,
Interruptions, Companies, Tores, Spending, Client, Rescue, Car Makers, Japan, Managers, Great
Hashin, Capital, Business News
Surprise consequences to the earthquake in Japan have revealed significant weaknesses in both the
worlds of politics and business and from an investment point of view, there are lessons we can learn.

6. Japan's Government Needs to Move Quickly
No one can truly know the economic impact of Japan's earthquake because the world has never
experienced such a severe natural disaster in an economy so critical to the global supply chain.
The Best-Drawn Supply Chain You'll Ever See: A Look at How an Industry Evolves
When drawing supply chains, most people don't bother with more than a fast doodle with boxes.
When Scott McCloud draws a supply chain, he takes it to a different level.
An American Industrial Renaissance?
Read More: Outsourcing, Suppliers, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Markets, Japan Economy,
General Electric, Apple, Japan Tsunami, Industry, Electronics, Labor Standards, Business News
In the sorting out of the wreckage after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, many Americans have
begun paying more attention to a phrase they had barely known -- "supply chains."
Automakers Could Lose More Than Half A Million Cars To Japan Quake
(Bloomberg) -- Global automakers may lose production of 600,000 vehicles by the end of the month
as the earthquake in Japan halts assembly lines and w...
Nearly A Tenth Of Japanese Farmland Affected By Tsunami, AP Says
SENDAI, Japan -- The rice paddies on the outskirts of this tsunami-hit city are ankle-deep in a black,
salty sludge. Crumpled cars and uprooted trees ...
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