Collect Information:

1. Age /establishment of the company,

Uttara Knitwear Ltd-
ESTABLISHMENT YEAR-2000
2. Types of products/services,

All kinds of Knit items LIKE T-SHIRT, POLOSHIRT, TOUSURE, JACKET.

3. No. of factories,

Uttara Knitwear Ltd. And Uttara dyeing ltd

4. Total no. of employees and workers,

60 STAFFS AND 1596 persons

5. Name of the countries/buyers involved in exporting/supplying products or services,

Bay city- Germany, Toms- Japan, Boston-Italy, Amstel- Italy & Koria Toyoshima- Japan.

6. Turnover,

15 million

7. Year of experience of the participant.

15 Years.

8. Three respondents from the top-level or middle-level management (for example,

sustainability/CSR/Compliance manager, supply chain manager and/or director)

(i) Md. Delwar Hossain Khan, Manager-HR & Compliance, 01958-248843

(ii) Shafiul Alam Moshiur, Deputy Manager- Merchandising, 01958-248830

(iii) Sanjida Afroj, Sr. Executive- Compliance, 01796-257064

9. What experience with supply chain learning for social and environmental sustainability
practices.

Supply chain training is provided by the individual customers based on their own COC- code of conduct.
Customers are providing training on raw materials sourcing to production, storage, delivery, and every
transportation link in between; they also provide social compliance training like health and safety issues
and efficiency enhancement training to staff and workers.
Ask the following guided questions/Objectives to your selected participants (semi-structured approach):

1. Do you arrange training/learning activities for the management level regarding health and
safety or implementing environmental sustainability issues? If yes then list the name, quantity of
the training, % of the participants

Yes

Health & Safety provided by BKMEA and individual customer & Environmental sustainability
training, Quantity-, for management -08 and workers-15 in the least one year Participants - 73%
of the total workers

2. Do you arrange training/learning activities for factory workers? If yes then list the name,
quantity of the training, % of the participants
Yes
Regular basis training is conducted for all workers as under

01 Fire fighting 40 % from each section covering all the shifts

02 First Aid 4 people per in a week
03 Induction Training All new workers (fresher)
04 Chemical Handling Training 100% from all sections.(Refresher)
Hazardous & Non-Hazardous
05 Wastage Carrier, Cleaner
Waste Handling Training
06 Occupational Health & safety 100% from all sections.(Refresher)
07 COC Communication Training 100% from all sections.(Refresher)
08 PPE Training 100% from all sections.
Leave, wages, WPC, Grievance
09 100% from all sections.
Training
10 AIDS Awareness Program 100% from all sections.
All Operators (Boiler, Fork Lifter, Welder,
11 Training for Operator
Generator, ETP, Electrical, Mechanical)
12 Meeting with HS committee Once after three months
13 ISO – Quality management 100% from all sections.
14 Compensation & benefits 100% from all sections.
15 EMS 100% from all sections.
Organic Cotton production
16 100% from all sections.
standard
 3. Do you have training activities for ensuring health and safety or environmental sustainability like
reducing carbon emissions/resource use? (Form of supply chain learning activities or training
and capacity building activities) ? If yes then list the name, quantity of the training, % of the
participants

According to the customer requirements (buyers) 3rd party provides us training based on their
COC like supplier selection, codes of conduct, supplier assessment or evaluation, supplier
monitoring or auditing, and buyers requirement for obtaining certifications or standards

4. What drives your company to arrange such trainings? The role of supply chain learning for
implementing supply chain sustainability practices? (Motivations/Reasons), ?

Classroom-Based Training Programs

Usually led by a qualified facilitator, classroom learning takes place over one or more days in a physical
venue on- or off-site. Groups of employees go through a series of presentation slides and activities, like
case study assessments or information on company policy issues.

Implementing social and environmental dimensions in global supply chains remains a major challenge in
practice for our organization. While processes and actions needed to implement sustainable supply
chain management (SSCM) have been subject to more research in the last years, the question of who
implements these in practice is much less understood. Purchasing & Supply Management (PSM) stands
out as a function with particular influence on the global supply base. Thus, there is a central connection
between SSCM implementation and PSM as a function. it is ultimately the individual buyer who
implements specific processes and performs specific actions.

5. To establish awareness among the selves/workers. Motivate the workers to lead an

environmentally sustainable life.

 Equip people with (the right) knowledge. We trained workers on how to use equipment to make
the work easy
 Help people process information. Staff is continuously training the workers for making the
process easy working. That helps us to improve efficiency
 Leverage the leaders. Leader means staff and supervisor always being shown leverage attitudes
towards to make them easy in work
 Make actions easy and enjoyable. Technical staff always help to the workers to make their work
easy.
6. What type of challenges does your company face to implement such training for achieving
 Education of the workers
 Old mindset they used to work
 Technology barrier
 Information Overload.
 Workforce Resistance.
 Ineffective Training Methods
 Lack of Employee Engagement.
 Employee Roadblocks.
 Poor Feedback and Support System

7. Does the factory management face any challenges while disseminating or implementing those
training at factory workers’ level/production floors (challenges of supply chain learning)

Yes, the worker always spoke about the on-time supply of the accessories. the backward linkage
is the main problem the supply chain manager is facing due to lead time.

8. How have you/factory management overcome the challenges of learning activities for
implementing sustainability? (Mitigation strategies for supply chain Learning)

The management has a plan to work on the below issue for overcoming the challenges
 Optimize your current man-machine efficiency
 Eliminate waste. Another no-brainer. ...
 Reduce, or eliminate, pollution. ...
 Recycle.
 Recover energy, don't turn it into heat! ...
 Save Time.

9. Does your factory provide the efficiency training to workers? ? If yes then list the name, quantity
of the training, % of the participants

Yes we are providing training on efficiency improvement to the workers