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The Responsible Supply Chain Show

The Responsible Supply Chain Show
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The Responsible Supply Chain Show is a must-hear podcast for insights and strategies on building ethics and sustainability into global supply chains. Each episode delves into the challenges and opportunities businesses face as they strive to create more responsible, transparent, and environmentally friendly supply chains. From innovative sourcing and trade disruptions to reducing carbon footprints and combating modern slavery, we explore the critical issues that define the future of global commerce.
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What a show! This week's episode features Dr. Laura Murphy, the penultimate subject matter expert regarding import bans on goods made with forced labor. An award-winning researcher and political appointee, Laura T. Murphy led the research project as a professor at Sheffield Hallam University that supported import bans in the United States. She knows a thing or two about responsible supply chains.
Supply chain data is the sock drawer of every company. Nothing matches. There's duplicates everywhere. And it's hidden from the public so there's no reason to fix it. That is until theres a pandemic or trade war. Then everyone is screaming why the data is a mess. On this episode Stephany Lapierre of Tealbook tells us how to clean our sock (data) draws and win the day.
Untuckit is one of the growing apparel brands in the United States, thanks to this episode's guest, Chief Product and Supply Chain Officer, Bjorn Bengstsson. In this episode, we dive into how Untuckit manages product design, supply chain efficiency, and sustainability while riding a bike and chewing gum. While we don't suggest trying this at home, we do recommend trying it at work. d1ZTD5Pzxv8Cj7cRBZjr
One story told well can unlock a career, a law, a relationship, a fortune.....you get the point. Our guest is Lisa Kristine, an award-winning human rights photographer who uses her photographs to tell stories about human rights abuses in supply chains. Her life of bad-assery was turned into a movie with Gillian Anderson (X-Files, The Crown) playing Lisa, who is here to teach us all how to tell stories with our work.
What's better than solving a problem? Solving lots of problems at once. Deborah Dull is here to tell us about how to reconfigure our manufacturing processes to solve for trade, climate, and human rights risks all at once! Sound crazy? Listen in and decide for yourself.
All can be fair in love and trade wars, we like to say. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Lea Esterhuizen about how responsible supply chain management adds to a company's bottom line.
Trade War got you feeling blue? Confused? We've got the cure for your paralysis of analysis. The Prima Donna-OG-MC of Trade is here. Paul Rice will help you see the world, and your supply chain, through fair trade rose-colored x-ray glasses. This is capitalism on creatine.
On this week's episode, we speak with Tu Rinsche, responsible supply chain advisor to Disney and Starbucks along with stints at US State Department and leading NGOs. She is a triple-threat talent here to fill your mind and heart with hard-won wisdom.
We figured you could use some rational and informed talk about trade and tariffs. In episode lucky number seven, we talk with Phyllis Constanza from UBS about how investors are now digging into companies supply chains looking for risk.
Simon Platts, the OG of Responsible Sourcing, built up the responsible sourcing practice at British fast fashion retailer ASOS. Now he's here to tell us how to look good, be good, and feel good. The good news: it's possible. The bad news: we have some work to do.
In this week's episode, we talk to Dr. James Cockayne, New South Wales Australia's First Anti-Slavery Commissioner. A little longer than our typical episodes, but so worth it.
This week we discuss what sustainability and procurement teams will need to know to achieve their goals this year. We talk turtles, decoupage, and 400-page questionnaires with Marc Jacobs, PVH and L'oreal Alum Danielle Azoulay.
Author and scholar Benjamin Skinner joins the RSC to discuss his work exposing slave labor in supply chains. Ben has been a leading voice for supply chain transparency and helps companies find and fix heinous hidden crimes committed by upstream suppliers. He is a leading voice in the anti-trafficking movement. He's also optimistic!
Capitalists of the world unite. In this week's episode, we hear about the pointy business end of responsible supply chains with sustainability OG, PVH & Unilever alum, the effervescent Marcela Manubens.
In this our inaugural episode we discuss why the world needs (and wants) responsible supply chains. Afdhel Aziz and Justin Dillon discuss how companies that operate with a sense of purpose can supercharge financial goals and outperform their competitors.