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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWalmart Promises To Strengthen Supply Chain Safeguards After Bangladesh Factory Fire
Source: Reuters
Walmart Promises To Strengthen Supply Chain Safeguards After Bangladesh Factory Fire
Reuters | Posted: 12/11/2012 1:13 am EST | Updated: 12/11/2012 8:49 am EST
By Jessica Wohl
Dec 11 (Reuters) - A factory fire that killed more than 100 garment workers in Bangladesh has led the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, to concede that it needs to do more to control its supply chain and keep unauthorized manufacturers out.
In an interview with Reuters, his first since the Nov. 24 Tazreen Fashions fire, Wal-Mart Vice President of Ethical Sourcing Rajan Kamalanathan said the company's current controls could only go so far in preventing a factory Wal-Mart did not approve of from making its clothes, as was the case here.
"If a supplier or an agent chooses to subcontract without informing us, then that is a problem," Kamalanathan said. "We can put all kinds of controls in place, but if they don't tell us where they're putting our order, then that is a problem."
Wal-Mart has said repeatedly that its Faded Glory clothing should not have been in production at the Tazreen factory, a facility Bangladeshi authorities said was not safe for use. The building was not cleared to be used by any party manufacturing garments for the world's largest retailer.
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Reuters | Posted: 12/11/2012 1:13 am EST | Updated: 12/11/2012 8:49 am EST
By Jessica Wohl
Dec 11 (Reuters) - A factory fire that killed more than 100 garment workers in Bangladesh has led the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, to concede that it needs to do more to control its supply chain and keep unauthorized manufacturers out.
In an interview with Reuters, his first since the Nov. 24 Tazreen Fashions fire, Wal-Mart Vice President of Ethical Sourcing Rajan Kamalanathan said the company's current controls could only go so far in preventing a factory Wal-Mart did not approve of from making its clothes, as was the case here.
"If a supplier or an agent chooses to subcontract without informing us, then that is a problem," Kamalanathan said. "We can put all kinds of controls in place, but if they don't tell us where they're putting our order, then that is a problem."
Wal-Mart has said repeatedly that its Faded Glory clothing should not have been in production at the Tazreen factory, a facility Bangladeshi authorities said was not safe for use. The building was not cleared to be used by any party manufacturing garments for the world's largest retailer.
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Walmart Promises To Strengthen Supply Chain Safeguards After Bangladesh Factory Fire (Original Post)
Eugene
Dec 2012
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Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)1. By 'supply chain' perhaps they mean
locking the ENTIRE factory next time so no one gets out to tell of the horror.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)2. i believe they've made such promises before. however, such promises are trash if your policy is
to keep forcing your suppliers to deliver at lower cost.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)3. Yeah, sure...uh-huh...
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)4. "Yeah, that's it!"
Jon Lovitz beat you to it, dude.
Everyone knows how hands-off Wal-Mart is.