Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility Programs

Supply Chain Components:

*Procurement (acquisition of goods, services or works from an external source.)

-Social Impact

Addressing the needs through social policies (in acquiring services or works) - whether employment, care, welfare or other - of groups including ethnic minorities, children, the elderly, those with disabilities, adults lacking basic skills, and immigrant populations.

-Economic Impact

Networking technology to improve both the acquisition materials and delivery of finished product. This favours easy trade or ethical practice, and allow extra investment towards countries, creation of jobs and wealth in regeneration areas, or assistance for small and/or ethnic minority-owned businesses.

-Environmental Impact

Purchase of energy-saving light-bulbs to the commissioning of a new building from renewably sourced timber via organic food being served in a workplace canteen and others that will reduce costs (storage) at the time of procurement.

*Processing (mechanical or chemical steps used to create an object, usually repeated to create multiple units of the same item.)

-Social Impact

Tracking of energy and material flows in production through industrial systems, e.g. a plant, region, or national or global economy to ease and evaluate processing. Products are manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices

-Economic Impact

Adoption or merge of production process with other firms to build networks and identify partners with an interactive marketplace.

-Environmental Impact

Reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the life cycle of goods and services, while increasing the quality of life for all.

*Channels of Distribution (refers to any means of transportation / hauling of goods between vendor and purchaser.)

-Social Impact

Labelling is an important means of communicating with consumers about sustainable distribution used as a promotional mechanism.

-Economic Impact

Improve stock-holding, storage and delivery, local knowledge (on distributions methods), promotion (incentives), display for sale (advertising). Transportation policy aims to prevent abuse of monopoly power, promote fair competition, and balance environmental, energy, and social concerns in transportation. Transportation innovations can also contribute to the sustainability of distribution processes by improving