29 Oct '12, 4pm

Why Sprint, H&M, Mars see supply chain visibility as crucial

Why Sprint, H&M, Mars see supply chain visibility as crucial

When poisoning from lead-acid batteries killed several workers at a Chinese cell phone supplier that sells to the U.S. market, Sprint Nextel Corp. got worried. After a Chinese nonprofit alerted the cellular service provider that its name was on a website listing companies that purchased from the supplier, the company leapt into action. "We immediately researched it and, luckily, we found we weren't buying from them," said Amy Hargroves, Sprint's director of corporate responsibility. "We did send a legal letter to them making sure they took our name off that website." While the Overland Park, Ks.-based company avoided a possible public relations disaster in this case, the incident highlights the necessity for corporations to have visibility into their supply chains so they can know whether suppliers are meeting their sustainability standards -- and act quickly when they are...

Full article: http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2012/10/29/why-sprint-hm-mar...

Tweets

@Lucy_Durling click on the X9 one .. I can't se...

stagecoachbus.com 28 Oct '12, 11pm

To view timetables you can either search by location and select a route number, search by location only or enter your trav...

@ttengy701 hahaha see #F2

eatingzombie.com 31 Oct '12, 12am

Shipment will be arriving in 2-3 weeks after pre-order ended *Only order if you are comfortable with the waiting time*

Your Supply Chain: Dynamic?

ebnonline.com 27 Oct '12, 7pm

Building a core competency around analyzing various supply chain design scenarios is crucial to bringing more efficiency a...

KL MRT: Trial closure on SPRINT for another week

KL MRT: Trial closure on SPRINT for another week

paultan.org 31 Oct '12, 1am

More MRT news. Following the trial closure of the left most lane on SPRINT highway on Monday, October 29, Mass Rapid Trans...

The Supply Chain Learns a Painful Lesson - via ...

ebnonline.com 31 Oct '12, 4pm

The rise of the dotcom companies in the late 1990s brought both opportunity and disaster for the electronics supply chain....

To See a Molecule: Molecules are pretty small. If one could see them, it might be easier to diagnose some probl...

To See a Molecule: Molecules are pretty small. ...

enn.com 28 Oct '12, 4pm

Molecules are pretty small. If one could see them, it might be easier to diagnose some problems. When someone develops liv...

Electronics supply chain unprepared for conflic...

eetimes.com 25 Oct '12, 8pm

SAN FRANCISCO—The U.S. electronics supply chain is unprepared to comply with federal conflict mineral disclosure requireme...