From the Board

The Board took the following action this week:

 

May 6 Quarterly Membership Meeting

 

Philips will host the regional meeting at its office, which is located at Piet Heinkade 55, 1019 GM Amsterdam.  EICC members who plan to attend will need to make their own hotel arrangements. Click here for the agenda and additional logistical information.

A web based conference call will take place for members not able to attend, and will be recorded for replay.
8:00 AM            US EDT
2:00 PM            Amsterdam
8:00 PM            China

Registrations will be accepted until April 27. Register for the call. 

 

Commodity Manager eLearning Release

Friday, April 24, will be the last day to submit a name from your company to receive instructions for downloading and running the  Commodity Manager eLearning training module.  Companies that miss this deadline will experience delays in accessing the training.  The module will be free for EICC members, and will be accessible from a link on the EICC webpage, or as a download from the EICC SharePoint.  Please identify one person who will receive the training instructions for your company and send the name to Grant Feichtinger.

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EICC/GeSI Member Registration for June 10 -11 Audit Preparation Event

The EICC/GeSI Supplier Audit Preparation Event is scheduled for June 10 - 11 at the Novotel Shenzhen Bauhinia Hotel in Shenzhen, China.  Invitations have been sent to the list of suppliers invited by EICC/GeSI members. For those of you that submitted a list of suppliers, you will receive an update shortly on which suppliers have responded and we encourage you to contact those that have not registered.
 
If you wish to participate, please Click Here with the names and contact information of two representatives from your company by Friday, May 1. We kindly ask companies to limit the number of their representatives to two, due to space constraints at the venue. Click Here for the agenda; additional information regarding hotel rooms will be sent in the near future.

 

Working Hours Awareness

The Working Hours Task Force is conducting a confidential survey of commodity managers.  The survey will determine levels of awareness about socially responsible practices related to work hours, and about the potential impact this has on work hours policies by suppliers.  Participation in the survey is voluntary, but we hope to achieve a high participation rate to ensure statistically valid data.
 
Take the survey
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EICC will charter up to 25 Validated Audits of facilities in Mexico.  The audits will be performed in May-June, and will serve as a geographical pilot for the Latin America region.  They will also provide important feedback about the audit process outside of China.

The audits will be conducted by approved third-party firms, and will follow the Validated Audit Process (VAP).  The EICC VAP Manager (Phylmar) will qualify and select the best local auditors from a list of EICC approved firms, and will manage the QA/QC.  Final reports will conform to the latest EICC format.

The audits must be completed before the ramp-up of China audits in late June.  As a result, the deadline to indicate interest in participation is Friday, May 1.  If interested, please submit the name, address, and location of your Mexico suppliers to Patrick Neyts of Phylmar. He will perform overlap analysis (i.e., shared audits vs. solo audits) and confirm the results with participants prior to commitment.  Audit costs are estimated to be similar to costs for the China pilots.  GeSI will also be invited to participate.  

Send questions to Mike Vaudreuil or John Gabriel.

 

Some EICC companies have been asked by "Chain Store Reaction" to respond to a survey about anti-slavery policies. Chain Store Reaction is part of a campaign to support the movie "Call and Response," a documentary about slavery.

Chain Store Reaction has established a website to post survey responses.  Companies that have not responded are given a "No Response" label.  Confusion has been caused by the fact that companies cannot eliminate this label by simply responding.  The website administrator told EICC staff that Chain Store Reaction will only indicate that a company has responded when it provides detailed answers to the specific survey questions.

Three EICC companies have responded so far. It is important to note that the campaign is not aimed specifically at the electronics industry, and only a handful of companies targeted have responded (13 out of 165).  Please let Brad Cameron at EICC know if you have received a survey or need further information. Email bcameron@eicc.info.