Sustainable Innovation


	Product-related Environmental and Social aspects in Supply Chain Management: Lessons for the Electronics Sector 14th June 2006 The Centre Brussels Belgium Conference brochure Background Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become one of the most critical areas for businesses. Global sourcing has become a necessity to remain competitive within today's markets, but control of the whole supply chain has become extremely challenging. Getting it wrong can result not only in poor quality parts, but products removed from the marketplace because of components that do not satisfy the legislation, or bad publicity and loss of market share because a supplier has very poor working conditions for it's employees or is polluting the local environment. Within the electrical and electronics sector there has been a massive shift of manufacturing to the developing countries over the last decade, of parts, subassemblies and products resulting in complex multi-level supply chains that somehow have to be managed. Design and product/software development is also starting to move to the developing world. In parallel with this the EU and many other countries are introducing or have introduced legislation on how products are designed, what materials they contain and how they are handled at end-of-life. In almost all cases both the legal and financial responsibility has been placed on the producer. This conference looked in detail at the environmental and social issues arising within global supply chains, and best-in-class practices used to manage the supply chain. Agenda Delegate list Speaker Presesentations Sustainable supply chain impacts on Asian companies: results of survey Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design Supply Chain Corporate Responsibility Initiative Arnie Bawden, Supply Chain Corporate Responsibility Manager, O2 (UK) Ltd Supplier's perspective: Thailand Charuek Hengrasmee, President, Electrical and Electronics, Thailand RoHS & SCM: Taiwan update Kris Pollet, Director EU Law & Policy, Pollet Environmental Consulting *REACH – Implications for the Supply Chain** Keith Huckle, Dow Corning Coordination Center S.A, Seneffe, Belgium
			Asia Eco-Design Electronics (AEDE) is funded by the European Union as part of the Asia-Pro Eco Programme This document has been produced with the financial assistance of European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of The Centre for Sustainable Design at the University for the Creative Arts and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.