Corporate Social Responsibility Programs
Supply Chain Components:
*Procurement (acquisition of goods, services or works from an external source.)
-Social Impact
Addressing the needs through social policies (in acquiring services or works) – whether
employment, care, welfare or other – of groups including ethnic minorities, children, the
elderly, those with disabilities, adults lacking basic skills, and immigrant populations.
-Economic Impact
Networking technology to improve both the acquisition materials and delivery of finished
product. This favours easy trade or ethical practice, and allow extra investment towards
countries, creation of jobs and wealth in regeneration areas, or assistance for small and/or
ethnic minority-owned businesses.
-Environmental Impact
Purchase of energy-saving light-bulbs to the commissioning of a new building from
renewably sourced timber via organic food being served in a workplace canteen and others
that will reduce costs (storage) at the time of procurement.
*Processing (mechanical or chemical steps used to create an object, usually repeated to
create multiple units of the same item.)
-Social Impact
Tracking of energy and material flows in production through industrial systems, e.g. a
plant, region, or national or global economy to ease and evaluate processing. Products are
manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices
-Economic Impact
Adoption or merge of production process with other firms to build networks and identify
partners with an interactive marketplace.
-Environmental Impact
Reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the life cycle of goods and
