Slavery is Still a Major Concern in the Supply Chain

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the September-October 2015 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers.

September-October 2015

It’s September, which means the kids are going back to school, and soon, you’ll spend the evenings helping them with their lessons. September is also the month that we publish Gartner’s annual look at the Top 25 supply chains. While the Top 25 is a celebration of great supply chains, the leaders also offer lessons for the rest of us who aspire to the top. It’s news you can use right now in your planning. And, we’ll have you home for dinner on Tuesday. We hope you’ll join us for this inaugural event.

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This year’s U.S. State Department of 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report places a special emphasis on slavery in the global marketplace, and raises a great many issues for today’s multinational supply chain manager to consider.

When announcing the report’s release, Secretary of State John Kerry cited a mainstream media report of a young Cambodian boy who crossed the border into Thailand. He was promised a construction job, but found himself held by armed men and pressed into service on the sea, shackled by his neck to a boat.

“If that isn’t slavery and imprisonment, I don’t know what is,” Kerry said.

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