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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 .




The Supply Chain Imperative. How to Ensure Ethical Behavior in Your Global Suppliers
Supply Chain Imperative, The: How to Ensure Ethical Behavior in Your Global Suppliers
ISBN: 0814407838
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 123
Authors: Dale Neef

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