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If you would like to get involved as speaker, sponsor, or exhibitor, please contact Andy Quildan, Conference Director, at +44 (0)20 7375 7165 or andrew.quildan@ethicalcorp.com.

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

  • 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

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