Working Together to Improve the Supply Chain
From the early 1990s people have become increasingly concerned about the conditions of labour standards around the world. However, after considerable time and effort had been spent working on solutions it became apparent to many companies that their individual efforts weren’t working and that they needed to come together to create a collaborative solution.
By the late 1990s a number of key retailers in the UK and their first tier suppliers (Marks and Spencer’s, Tesco, John Lewis Partnership, RHM [now Premier Foods], Northern Foods and Geest [now Bakkavor]) got together to try and improve the situation. The key aim was to be able to gather and report on their supply chain in an easily accessible manner whilst also reducing the burden on suppliers.
In 2004 Sedex, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (www.sedex.org.uk), was launched as an online data base for organizations to share and report on ethical and responsible trade. Since then it has grown to become a global system used by more than 20,000 production sites in 132 countries and 250 organizations reporting on their supply chain ranging from Tesco and PepsiCo to Oxfam and the British Red Cross. //Read more
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