SCM 300 EXAM GUIDE 3 ASU
The 3 Parts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - Answers -- legal and ethical,
serves and community/society, environmental sustainability.
Reasons to be Socially Responsible: - Answers -- Avoid legal issues, government
regulation, and fines,
- Responsibility as a global/local citizen,
- Business risks - political, resource shortage, population growth, climate change
- Business opportunities - increased profits, lower costs? Maintain business operations?
Develop socially responsible competitive weapons
Links between SCM and SR - Answers -- How SCM can help companies become more
socially responsible
o Eliminate waste
o Legal and Ethical Business practices
o Improve quality of life
Challenges of being SR - Answers -- What's the right thing to do?
- Monitoring supply chain partners (and yourself)
- Tracking outcomes across the SC
- How supply chains can be socially irresponsible
o Customer related issues
o Business partner related issues - Buyers and Suppliers
o Labor related issues
o Culture related issues
o Country and community related issues
o Environment related issues
Social Responsibility Basics - Answers -- Legal and Ethical - Good practices and
attitude towards customers and associates
- Serves the Community/Society- Committed to programs and practices that benefit
society
- Environmental sustainability - Earth-friendly business practices
4 Tools for managing ethical SC - Answers -- Continuous education and awareness
programs
- Security across the SC
- Establish a whistleblower program
- Monitoring and auditing programs
SA8000 - Answers -- Developed by a social accountability international, SA8000 is a
certification that focuses on social responsibility in the workplace that may be of value to
companies present and prospective SC partners
, SA8000 examples - Answers -- Examples Include: Child labor, health and safety,
discrimination of any type, payment/compensation, unionization rights, forced labor,
disciplinary practices, working hours, ethical management systems
Sustainability - Answers -- Bruntland Commission in 1987: sustainable development is
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their needs"
- Its not easy being green!
Sustainability framework (terms/concepts) - Answers -- Triple Bottom Line
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Cradle To Grave Design
- Cradle To Cradle Design
- Closed Loop SC
Triple Bottom Line - Answers -companies to consider the possible economic,
environmental, and social outcomes associated with business decisions.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Answers -companies can conserve materials and energy,
maximize the use of their resources and find new uses for items.
Cradle To Grave Design - Answers -all items were destined for landfills - no longer
serving a purpose to the user.
Cradle To Cradle Design - Answers -designed parts of the items that might be
repurposed once the item was no longer useful to the user.
Closed Loop SC - Answers -using C2C design, extends the same concepts to SC.
Create loop of materials thought sustainable procurement, manufacturing, logistics and
reverse logistics.
Challenges of being sustainable - Answers -- Motivating Supply Chain Partners
- Customers Want Things That Last
- Local Versus Global Management
- Lack Of Understanding Or Knowledge
- Metrics
- Managerial Support
Ways SC can be more sustainable - Answers -- Procurement
- Logistics
- Reverse Logistics
- Manufacturing And Operation Facilities
- Supply Chain Sustainability Catalysts
- Rethink Design
- Sustainability Accounting
- Develop Sustainability Metrics
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