You have an exciting new job as the Director of Production at a major candy and cookie company. Your job is to purchase the products necessary to create all of the tasty treats the company makes, including chocolate candies and peanut butter cookies. Basically, you decide what companies and suppliers form the supply chain for the company’s products.
The company you work for has been getting a lot of consumer complaints about the palm oil usage in their products. They know that other companies like Pepsi, Kroger, The Girl Scouts and even Starbucks have gone palm oil friendly, but no one really knows what that means at your company.
You have to create a report providing an explanation of what palm oil or orangutan friendly means, what organization establishes whether or not a company is designated as friendly, how they determine that status and what you need to look for when deciding which companies to work with.
