A guide to traceability: A practical approach to advance sustainability in global supply chains

Publisher(s)
United Nations Global Compact
Topics
  Responsible supply chains, Transparency & anti-corruption
Audience
  Buyers, Operators
Tools and Guides

A guide to traceability: A practical approach to advance sustainability in global supply chains

  Mar 01th, 2014

This guide provides companies with an overview of the importance of traceability for sustainability purposes, outlines the global opportunities and challenges it represents and summarises practical steps for implementing traceability programmes within company operations. It

• defines traceability and explores its history, benefits and challenges, including an overview of current collaborative schemes on traceability,

• demonstrates a model for best practice in traceability, and provides an overview of the different models of traceability and the global initiatives operating in the arena, and

• provides guidance to companies around the world, large and small, on how to effectively engage in traceability.