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Agenda
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Day 1
Plenary One 09.30 – 11.00
The limits of your responsibility - Where does your supply chain start and finish?
The process of assessing your supply chain is often a long and complicated one. With dozens of companies often contributing to the production of a product before it hits the shelves it makes it difficult to assess a products credentials. But it doesn´t stop there. Once the product is in the hands of the consumer is it out of the minds of the producer?
If you take on too much, costs balloon and actions become too complex. But if you fail to take adequate responsibility for your complete supply chain you´re open to attack. How far down the supply chain do you go? This session provides:
- Practical advice to help you determine where to realistically begin: Are your suppliers your starting point or are their suppliers? And what if their suppliers sourced from somewhere else?
- Sustainable consumption: Does the supply chain end at production or do we look toward the consumer?
- Live ethical dilemmas: see how our panelists react when they are faced with tough scenarios
- Toyota, Stefan Crets, Deputy General Manager -
CSR
- Ethical Trading Initiative, Dan Rees, Director
- CIES harmonisation project - GSCP, Chris Anstey, Outreach
Director
Plenary Two 11.30 – 1.00
Can you REALLY get your suppliers´ supply chain engaged in ethical improvements?
Taking responsibility for your suppliers is now a must. While there is an increasing awareness among Tier 1 suppliers, the same can´t always be said for their suppliers. This session will look at innovative and new ways that companies are making sure their suppliers are engaged.
- Advice on how to motivate your suppliers to improve
- Help them understand the environmental and social impacts
- Learn how to use tools such as social and environmental auditing to engage with your suppliers
- GlaxoSmithKline, Luca Guzzabocca, Procurement Director
& Co-Chairman of Acquisti & Sostenibilitá
- L´Oreal, Ariane Thomas, Supply chain purchasing
director
- Marks and Spencer, Louise Nicholls, Ethical Trading
Director
- UTZ Certified, Marrit Rooda, Traceability
Manager
1A: Collaboration 14.30 –
16.00
WITH COMPETITORS
Two heads are often better
than one and many companies are now finding out that even competitors
can prove to be allies. Cost cutting, waste reducing and an increase
in market responsiveness are just three of the benefits of competitor
collaboration. But there can be disadvantages as well.
- Discover the risks of competitor collaboration
- Find out about its opportunities
- Can collaboration with your competitors make commercial sense?
- Deutsche Telekom, Dr. Heinz-Gerd Peters, Corporate
Procurement, Global Commodity and Supplier Coordination.
- Sedex, Tara Norton, General Manager
- Cadbury, Nathalie Ritchie, Head of Ethical
Sourcing
WITH NGOS and Trade
Unions
Partnerships with NGOs and
trade unions are often held up as effective ways to add rigor and
authenticity to your ethical supply chain efforts. This is backed
up by the fact that 2007 saw almost 1,000 new corporate/NGO partnerships
formed.
- Recognise the risks of bad relationships with trade unions
- Gain insight into the advantages of successful collaboration
- Can a NGO´s mission realistically be reconciled with the
companies bottom line?
- TransfairUSA, Caren Holzman, Director of
Category Management
- Traidcraft, Alistair Leadbetter, Business
Services Coordinator
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1B: Auditing: It´s not the answer
to your supply chain problems, but can it help? 14.30 – 16.00
According to the Institute
for Supply Management´s 2008 survey, half of companies will
deselect suppliers for not meeting sustainability criteria. This bullet-dodging
technique may help, but it´s not a sustainable solution.
This session will look at
using auditing as a productive tool for improvement as well as looking
at the challenges audits presents.
- The risks and benefits of external and in-house auditors
- Expert tips on steps to take if your facility fails an audit
- Practical ways to ensure your audits are fair
- Timberland, Anabel Drese, CSR Director, Europe
- HP , Karl Daumueller, Supply Chain Programmes,
EMEA
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2A: What effect do decisions made at the
top of your supply chain have on the ground level? 16.30 –
18.00
With complex, international
supply chains it´s difficult to understand exactly what is happening
at ground level. But if you aren´t fully aware, you open yourself
up to attack.
- Discover what effect an unexpected increase in demand for a product
can have at the base of your supply chain
- Protecting yourself from NGOs: understanding the consequences
of your actions
- Body Shop, Graham Clewer, Head of Ethical
Trade
- Body Shop, Mary Teakle, Ethical Trade Coordinator
- Africa Now, Jane Nyambura, Regional Manager
East Africa
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2B: How to Engage your consumers in your
ethical supply chain management
Some 60% of consumers say
they admire companies viewed as taking action on CSR and sustainability.
You must now more than ever be accountable to meet the expectations
of consumers.
- Evaluate what consumers rate and prioritise as important
- Ways to engage with your consumers
- Learn how effective supply chain communications can help increase
the sustainability of your product
- Syngenta, Richard Brown, Head of Product
Stewardship & Sustainable Agriculture
- Marshalls, Chris Harrop, Group Marketing Director
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Day 2
Plenary One: 09.30 – 11.00
Practical ways to measure your
carbon footprint
With the EU demanding a 20% cut
in C02 emissions by 2020 all companies should be measuring carbon emissions.
But what do you measure? How do
you measure? And where are the limits?
In this session you will discuss:
- Is carbon measurement really that important?
- Practical ways to measure your carbon footprint.
- How to use your newly found knowledge to improve your performanc
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Carbon Trust, Hérve
Humbert, European Business Development Manager
Carbon Disclosure Project
, Frances Way, Head of Supply Chain
Pepsico, Andrew
Smith, Head of Corporate Responsibility
Plenary Two 11.30 – 1.00
Developing a set of global standards
- A realistic future or a distant dream?
Many different standards and regulations
are applicable to your supply chain management. Trying to decipher what
rules are relevant can become a minefield.
- Is it possible to achieve a global set of standards when different cultures
and ways of life clash?
- Can too many initiatives and standards become counterproductive?
- Fairtrade Labeling Organisation, Rob Cameron, CEO
1A: The move to biodiversity 14.30
– 16.00
While carbon may be at the
top of every company´s priority list, it´s important not
to neglect other key environmental issues. For example, the protection
of biodiversity is becoming increasingly important. It´s only
a matter of time before the spotlight shines firmly on your biodiversity
management.
- Develop practical steps to improve your biodiversity management
- What are the resource and cost implications?
- Learn about BAT´s innovative biodiversity partnership and
the positive effect it´s had on the company´s supply
chain
- British American Tobacco, Simon Roper, Group
Head of Global Environmental Health & Safety
- Earthwatch, Paul Laird, Environment Partnerships
Manager
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1B: Using metrics and benchmarking to improve
your supply chain performance.
Being able to track performance
over a set period of time means you can identify weak areas in your
supply chain and make improvements.
- Understand the meaning of measurements
- Find out how supply chain metrics and measurement work in big
companies
- Do´s and don´ts: how to avoid common measurement and
usage mistakes
- BSI Management Systems, Paul
Stanfield , Product Marketing Manager - Entropy Software
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