Manufacturing
Multinational manufacturing corporations are increasingly prioritizing working with environmentally and socially responsible suppliers. However, multinational supply chains can rely on tens of thousands of suppliers, in some cases more than 100,000 suppliers, making social and environmental risks difficult to identify.
Manufacturing
Multinational manufacturing corporations are increasingly prioritizing working with environmentally and socially responsible suppliers. However, multinational supply chains can rely on tens of thousands of suppliers, in some cases more than 100,000 suppliers, making social and environmental risks difficult to identify.
How Ulula Supports Organizations in Manufacturing
With Ulula’s remote solution, organizations regularly monitor and detect risks across their supply chain, cutting across tiers of suppliers and increasing visibility into environmental and social performance and risk. Worker surveys provide continuous insight into true labor conditions throughout the year, while the grievance mechanism offers a safe and anonymous channel for workers to raise concerns and seek assistance.
The Ulula solution offers suppliers an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to compliance and social responsibility while also leveraging feedback on worker satisfaction crucial to improving productivity and quality of work.
Continuously Monitoring and Engaging Across the Supply Chain
Traditional audits only offer a potentially dated snapshot of work conditions. Worker feedback collected via traditional means, relying on a limited number of in-person interviews, can lack honesty, for fear of retaliation.
Ulula’s scalable mobile-based worker surveys work in tandem with audits, allowing organizations to regularly monitor operations across their supply chains more continuously.
Identify trends, detect risks early and decide where and what to audit, as well as how to track corrective action. Surveys can be adapted to an industry’s vulnerabilities, standards and mandates.
Human rights and environmental abuses in manufacturing are often hidden — 93% of child labor occurs in the cradle of supply chains, upstream
Creating Transparent Supply Chains
Human rights and environmental abuses in manufacturing are often hidden — 93% of child labor occurs in the cradle of supply chains, upstream
Monitoring supply chain tiers continuously is only feasible and affordable with a scalable digital system. Ulula deploys mobile surveys at-scale and returns highly customizable analyses that identify high-risk facilities and regions. Using their personal mobile device, workers can safely and anonymously submit concerns and questions through Ulula’s grievance mechanism and engage directly with case managers to resolve issues.
Allow approved suppliers, buyers, assessors and certification bodies can access site level or global performance analytics dashboards to view real-time insights on social and environmental risks.
Enables case managers to monitor grievances, track progress and directly speak with workers that submit cases.
Streamlines resolution and increases visibility across the supply chain.
Creating Transparent Supply Chains
Human rights and environmental abuses in manufacturing are often hidden — 93% of child labor occurs in the cradle of supply chains, upstream
Monitoring supply chain tiers continuously is only feasible and affordable with a scalable digital system. Ulula deploys mobile surveys at-scale and returns highly customizable analyses that identify high-risk facilities and regions. Using their personal mobile device, workers can safely and anonymously submit concerns and questions through Ulula’s grievance mechanism and engage directly with case managers to resolve issues.
Allow approved suppliers, buyers, assessors and certification bodies can access site level or global performance analytics dashboards to view real-time insights on social and environmental risks.
Enables case managers to monitor grievances, track progress and directly speak with workers that submit cases.
Streamlines resolution and increases visibility across the supply chain.
Supporting Worker Well-being
Worker health and well-being can impact a business’s operational productivity and output. However, efforts to measure and support worker well-being through traditional means, in an attempt to drive business outcomes, are rarely successful.
Cut across supply chain tiers, at-scale, to assess worker well-being and satisfaction.
Deploy flexible surveys to capture insights on key issues, such as income needs, in addition to delivering digital education resources.
Correlate workplace practices with business outcomes, such as turnover and retention, which enables organizations to design worker well-being programs and improve productivity.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers in Manufacturing
The global health crisis forced sector leaders to reexamine their supply chains and the greater impact of their value chains. Measures imposed to contain COVID-19 caused a decline in manufacturing output of 11.2% (in a year-over-year comparison) in the second quarter of 2020. Travel bans and social distancing have forced companies to explore digital solutions to aid in resuming business and operations. Post-pandemic, it will be prudent for the sector to prioritize resilience and adopt digital solutions to become ‘disruption-proof’.
Ulula’s solution can drive resilient business models by remotely capturing and assessing ESG data to inform real-time decisions — a competitive advantage that benefits suppliers, buyers and assessors. Flexible and tailored worker surveys provide continuous insights into risks on the ground, without an in-person onsite visit, as the pandemic and its resulting travel bans persist, ensuring mobility restrictions do not impede operations.
Allow decision makers to leverage the insights to prioritize resources, investments and programs, thus improving conditions and mitigating potential outbreaks in facilities
Enable workers to safely and anonymously submit concerns and seek remediation through the grievance mechanism.
Allow stakeholders, including facility managers, to distribute digital resources and one-way notifications to workers, directly to their mobile phones — including up-to-date pandemic related health and safety practices.
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