Tools to assess supply chain risks and engage suppliers on improvements

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Tools to assess supply chain risks and engage
suppliers on improvements

• Rachel Wilshaw, Ethical Trade Manager
• Laura Hancock, Ethical Purchasing Officer

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The scope of Oxfams purchasing
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Labour issues in global supply chains

• In the Bangladesh garment industry, only 25
  waged workers have contracts
• In the Moroccan agriculture industry, only 20 of
  waged workers earn the legal minimum wage
• In the Thailand shrimp industry, 40 migrant
  workers regularly work shifts gt12 hours.
• Across 98 manufacturing sites assessed by
  Impactt, child labour was found in 25 cases.

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Traditional audits miss significant labour issues

• A factory Oxfam wanted to source from passed a
  commercial audit but a forensic audit found
  child labour, wages below minimum and faked
  records

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Oxfam Purchasing Flow Chart
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Oxfam tool to decide audit approach with a
supplier
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Engaging suppliers Supplier Day workshop on
ethical purchasing
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Engaging suppliers new Oxfam GB global centre

• New build offices in Oxford
• Major procurement and ethical purchasing
  challenge
• Complex supply chain
• Labour issues new to industry
• Dialogue with contractors at selection stage
• Joint assessments of with sustainability
  consultants

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Oxfam recommendations for Better work in better
supply chains

• Better job security
• Better relations between management and workers
• Better purchasing practices
• Smarter audit programme and support for
  government regulation
• Work with others
• Be transparent

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• Rwilshaw_at_oxfam.org.uk
• Lhancock_at_oxfam.org.uk
• www.oxfam.org.uk/business