Table of Contents - Supply Chain Imperative, The: How to Ensure Ethical Behavior in Your Global Suppliers

the supply chain imperative: how to ensure ethical behavior in your global suppliers

The Supply Chain Imperative: How to Ensure Ethical Behavior in Your Global Suppliers
by Dale Neef	ISBN:0814407838
AMACOM © 2004
This book helps companies avoid costly litigation and potentially devastating injury to reputation brought on by violations of law and ethical norms.

Table of Contents
	The Supply Chain Imperative
	Preface
	Introduction
	Chapter One	-	Strategic Concerns
	Chapter Two	-	The Extended Global Supply Chain: New Problems and New Responsibilities
	Chapter Three	-	Risky Business
	Chapter Four	-	Companies Behaving Badly
	Chapter Five	-	The SEAAR Movement
	Chapter Six	-	Who Is in Charge Here? Organizational Responsibilities for an Ethical Supply Chain Program
	Chapter Seven	-	The Corporate Ethics and Risk Management Framework
	Chapter Eight	-	Choosing an Aspirational Code of Conduct
	Chapter Nine	-	Creating a Case for Action
	Chapter Ten	-	Choosing Performance and Process Standards
	Chapter Eleven	-	Creating Measurable and Verifiable Indicators of Performance
	Chapter Twelve	-	Building Awareness and Support for Codes and Standards
	Chapter Thirteen	-	The Supplier Program
	Chapter Fourteen	-	The Audit Process
	Chapter Fifteen	-	Compliance Issues
	Chapter Sixteen	-	Reporting Your Good Work ” Moving Toward Triple-Bottom-Line Accounting
	Chapter Seventeen	-	Systems to Monitor and Audit Social and Environmental Performance Within the Supply Chain
	Chapter Eighteen	-	Pulling It All Together: The Switcher/Prem Case Study
	Final Thoughts
	Appendix A	-	Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Europe
	Appendix B	-	Sample Farm Description Questionnaire
	Appendix C	-	Sample Audit Checklist
	Appendix D	-	The Sustainable Development Commission™s Sector Strategy Self-Assessment
	Appendix E	-	Sample Company Self-Assessment
	Index
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Case Studies
	List of Sidebars

Back Cover

Like many companies in all industries, yours is making an admirable new commitment to higher ethical standards. You ve worked hard to build or restore your reputation and the trust of your stakeholders. But all your best efforts may be undermined if the many links in your supply chain do not follow suit.

The Supply Chain Imperative helps your organization avoid costly litigation and blots on its reputation brought on by violations of law and ethical norms. Author Dale Neef has created a framework any business can use for monitoring, reporting, and improving performance of suppliers on environmental, social, and other issues. It ensures that your company s ethical mandate is understood and implemented along the entire length of the chain. This timely book clarifies:

The importance of maintaining an ethical supply chain
The new rules, problems, and responsibilities that businesses now face
Strategic concerns
How to use information technology in the ethical supply chain program
How to make the business case for action
And more

The new business imperative is to create an unambiguous culture of ethical behavior. Here is the key to making sure that mandate is followed at every turn .

About the Author

Dale Neef is a strategic management consultant specializing in corporate social responsibility and supply chain issues. A veteran of enterprise-wide change and strategy development programs with more than 40 companies worldwide, he has worked for IBM and CSC, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young s Center for Business Innovation. Founder of the Neef Ethical Supply Chain Index, he has written or edited several books on business and the economy, including e-Procurement: From Strategy to Implementation and A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing: Understanding Our Global Knowledge Economy .