It seems that the parlous state of fish stocks and the pressure to monitor supply chains for sustainability has made the issue of slavery visible.
This is because it devotes significant staff resources to environmental management and is one of only 10 institutions to have signed up to the Worker Rights Consortium to monitor supply chains.
In healthcare, which accounts for 25% of the study's cataloged initiatives, the focus has been on using blockchain to store medical records and to monitor supply chains, including medicine temperatures during shipment.
Carrigan talked about how Dun & Bradstreet had expanded its scope over time moving from strictly trade credit data to helping companies manage and monitor supply chains, compliance management, and prospect and lead management.
The FPB has entered Carlsberg, one of the biggest brewers in the world, into its Hall of Shame, which monitors supply chain abuse by big businesses.
I recently visited the Oakland, Calif., headquarters of GT Nexus, a company that monitors supply chain information — things like ordering, payment, manufacture and logistics — for 100 major companies.
There are a range of countermeasures that include management, market monitoring, supply chain integrity, and product protection (Spink [2012b]).
Now it produces only the most challenging components internally, while buying about 80% of parts from a carefully monitored supply chain of small and medium-size companies.
The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model has been developed as a systematic supply chain performance measurement to improve supply chain construction by identifying, evaluating and monitoring supply chain performance (Lockamy and McCormack 2004).
