1. How significant is it for companies such as Nike and Wal-Mart that source extensively from foreign suppliers located in countries where wages are low as well as substandard working conditions are common to institute supplier codes of conduct as well as undertake programs to monitor as well as ensure supplier compliance with these codes of conduct?
2. Which company has the strongest supplier monitoring as well as compliance program-Nike or Wal-Mart? Why?
3. Would you indorse that a company join the Fair Labour Association and use FLA's standards as well as program of factory audits instead of trying to set up its own supplier monitoring as well as compliance effort?
4. What can a company do to detect as well as combat the efforts of unscrupulous foreign suppliers to deceive inspection/compliance teams?