Raconteur：2023年供应链与采购行业报告（英文版）（12页）.pdf

1、INDEPENDEN T P U B L I C AT I O N BYRACONTEUR.NET19/03/2023#0860“In this period of uncertainty,there is a definite risk to importers,distributors and retailers that poor-quality products could reach the UK market,with the attendant impact on brand reputation and potential legal action,”says Simon El

2、lis,financial reg-ulatory defence director at law firm Freeths.The liability doesnt disappear because the people doing the checks have.“As a business,if you import a product it may not have been tested as it came into the coun-try,”says Emile Naus,former head of logis-tics strategy at Marks&Spencer

3、and now a partner at tech consultancy BearingPoint.“You have to put checks in place.”For businesses,the threat is a significant one,reputationally,legally and in terms of the bottom line.And the problem isnt lim-ited to Europe.Its increasingly difficult to vouch for the safety of any items coming in

4、to the UK from abroad,particularly given that the interconnected nature of the global supply chain system means that goods which dont emanate from Europe may well pass through it on their way to the UK.Doing something about it is therefore necessary.Setting up parallel,independent checks of the supp

5、ly chain,including accounting for and tracking the movement of goods that come into your business,is increasingly important.Ellis advises that importers should“pay particular attention to the integrity of their supply chains to ensure that supplies originate from trusted sources which have a reliabl

6、e history of compliance”.That requires due diligence checks throughout the entire supply chain “as commercial sensitivities permit”.Under the radar:why the UKs imports are at risk after Brexit A lack of EU oversight means that its more important than ever for British businesses to take supply chain