'Greening' the Electronics Supply Chain

Hewlett-Packard has developed a social and environmental responsibility initiative to address not only RoHS and WEEE, but other supply-chain issues such as labour practices among its component suppliers. The company had to augment its supply chain management software to handle the additional tracking requirements. In order to comply, suppliers and manufactures need to know that all parts and sub-assemblies are compliant, and product data management systems have to track down to the part level. Source: BangkokPost