This time I have to come up with some bad news, in particular the bad working conditions in third world countries. This entry will be about Stitch-Wear, our first Memo-Report. Furthermore, I want to apply this topic to the course Global Supply And Chain Management.
As you all remember, Stitch Wear’s sales and public image have recently suffered from bad publicity due to child labor accusations and bad working conditions at their manufacturing factories, in particular in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Our Task is to wright a Memo-report to the board of direction of Stitch-Wear.
However, Stitch-Wear is an invented company. Thus, I want to show you a short video how people really work in Southeast Asia:
Recent research shows that an increase in manual and professional business practices such as outsourcing, hiring temporary workers and focusing on project-based teams is having a detrimental effect on workers. A lot of companies are moving to Southeast Asia to hire low-cost labour. However, instead of helping the third world countries they go there and prey upon the poor.
Fortunately, letting people work under bad working conditions will no longer be tolerated by the modern society. Furthermore, there are companies, which do not watch out that they have good working conditions; even the suppliers have to have employees working under good conditions as well.
Quite recently we had to read a Supply Chain Management Review. In the
supply chain management review „Toward a more responsible supply chain: the HP story“ (click to read the review), the author Sonali Rammohan characterizes the work of HPs Social and
Environmental Responsibility program, how it could be implemented in companies
supply chains and what it should aiming on.
I did the review together with my classmate Louis and please feel free to read our evaluation.
