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Ford Motor Company has increased the scale of an existing programme to measure suppliers’ carbon footprint.

Microsoft will, starting in 2013, require suppliers to provide annual sustainability reports on their adherence to the requirements listed in the existing Microsoft Vendor Code of Conduct in an effort to tackle sustainability and standards of ethics in…

UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has announced plans to invest £1bn in a sustainability plan to reduce waste and carbon footprint in its own stores and in its supply chain in what it describes as one of the most ambitious programmes announced in the …

A programme of supply chain improvements is key to the development of Canada’s National Railway Company (CN), according to the firm’s chief executive officer.

Petrochemical prices fell in September as fears of a global economic slowdown depressed demand for old and natural gas, market experts have revealed.

A new report reveals that the recent financial markets crisis and concerns about the spread of the sovereign debt crisis across the Eurozone is driving Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programmes.

Cargill has experienced a “tough quarter” caused by commodity market turbulence, fears over a global recession and increased freight costs arising from floods on US inland waterways, according to its chairman and CEO.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has begun manufacturing tissue products that meet the sustainable sourcing requirements of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

British food retailer Waitrose has put suppliers under pressure to reduce its prices, according to trade publication The Grocer.

Thailand’s worst flooding in five decades could disrupt the operations of automobile and parts makers that use the Southeast Asian country as a production base.