Mitigating Forced Labor Risks: Strategies for a Resilient Supply Chain

Forced labor has been a problem in supply chain management for a long time. The good news is that over the past few years governments and companies have been taking action to help eradicate this problem. That said, it’s not an easy problem to solve. In a survey we conducted with members of our Indago supply chain research community in March 2021, a plurality of the respondents said that screening suppliers to ensure no environmental violations or human rights abuses existed in their end-to-end supply chains would be very or extremely difficult. So, where are we today with regulations such as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act? How are different industries being impacted by these laws? What are companies doing to mitigate the risks in this space? And how is technology helping? Those are some of the questions that Sung Choi, AVP of Solution Consulting at e2open, discusses in this Talking Logistics episode.