What are the Supply Chain Responsibilities?
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McDonald’s is one of the most popular and well recognized fast food restaurants around the world. McDonald’s is undoubtedly known for their breakfast sandwiches. However, recently McDonald’s and Target dropped Sparboe Farms as their egg supplier after animal welfare issues. This alteration in the supply chain will have little to no effect on Target or McDonald’s, but will hit Sparboe hard.
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Animal welfare issues are controversial in a sense that the public cannot agree on its ethical stance. A company can suffer from unethical behaviour or from behaviour that is seen to be unethical. “Any company is clearly responsible for, and should be accountable for, its own behaviour.” Should a company also be responsible for the behaviour of its suppliers? When a company is directly tied to another company, it is within their corporate social responsibility to take action when the behaviour of a company is less than acceptable. A companies supplier could bring down the business overall if the issue is not dealt with. McDonald’s is felicitous in discontinuing their connections to Sparboe when the company attracts bad publicity.
Works Cited:
MacDonald, Chris. “Eggs, Ethics, and Supply-chain Accountability.” Canadian Business – Business Ethics. 21 Nov. 2011. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. <http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog/business_ethics/58175–eggs-ethics-and-supply-chain-accountability>.