Levi Strauss described an approach called Supplier Ownership in which the company worked to empower suppliers and to increase their involvement in improving labor conditions in their own factories.
Some of the meat that went into Ireland came from suppliers in Poland, which exports around 25,000 horses for slaughter each year.
Iraq has ordered large quantities of a drug, atropine, that can be used to counter the effects of nerve gas, mainly from suppliers in Turkey, which is being pressed to stop the sales, according to senior Bush administration officials.
Iraq has ordered large quantities of a drug that can be used to counter the effects of nerve gas, mainly from suppliers in Turkey, which is being pressed to stop the sales, according to senior Bush administration officials.
Mr. Scott also said he would press for suppliers in China, which are known for flouting environmental rules, to comply with that country's environmental regulations and would require them to certify that they meet industry standards.
External supplier selection: at the beginning of the process chain decisions concern which suppliers are selected in which time period for the raw material supply.
Honeywell's five specialists -- four of them added to the staff in the last four years -- have worked out contracts with suppliers of industrial gases in which the suppliers set up shop at a Honeywell plant and use some of its waste heat, steam and other sources of energy that might have been vented to the atmosphere.
Dr Mark Woolfe, a former head of food authenticity at the FSA, said the move left suppliers 48 hours in which to look for alternative sources of cheap meat.
In charge of the company's overall Net strategy is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Gary Reiner, 47. Reiner says GE's Web approach is three- pronged: buy side, where GE interacts with suppliers; sell side, in which GE interacts with customers; and make side, where GE interacts within its own operations.
