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The 'compliance trap' that hinders sustainable procurement

2019-07-24 18:05:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Businesses are getting stuck in a kind of compliance trap, whereby they under-invest in programmes - which essentially come down to ticking boxes and collecting documents - but do not drive suppliers to embrace long-term performance improvement, a new survey suggests.

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UK delays decision on Huawei, plans law on telecom procurement security

2019-07-23 08:58:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The UK government has announced plans for legislation to impose tighter security requirements on telecom operators and their supply chains. However, it stopped short of taking a decision on "high-risk vendors", saying it will study the matter further following the US government's recent blacklisting of Chinese equipment maker Huawei.

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