This week’s topics
Supply Chain Risks to CSR and Sustainability Standards
- Modern slavery and labor rights violations
- Tier-tier environmental non-compliance
- Greenwashing liabilities
- Brand reputational exposure
- #25 Sustainability in Supply Management | Part 1 | Strategic Sourcing
- Week 3-Lecture 22 : Sustainability Standards
What you will be able to do
- 4.1 Describe types of risk found within supply chains.
- 4.2 Compare risks in supply chains that can impact on organisational corporate social responsibility and sustainability standards.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe types of risk found within supply chains.
Study materials
Videos
- State of Supply Chain Sustainability - MIT CTL & CSCMP · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 53 min · for registered students
- Day 1 | Session 5: Responsible Supply Chain Management · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 33 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, 2nd ed. (UN Global Compact & BSR, 2015) · PDF · Un, guidance; 76 pages · for registered students
- Procurement in the Supply Chain World, ch.: Ethics, Social Responsibility and Sustainability · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 125–132 · for registered students
- Green Claims Code: making environmental claims on goods and services (CMA, 2021) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 56 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
