Historians later will benchmark April 2013’s Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh as the beginning. This accident triggered global attention to supply chains, especially those supplying brand-names. With global trade unions beating the drum, the Accord on Building and Fire Safety in Bangladesh was signed by over 40 brands, transforming the ground rules for thinking about supply chain. The Accord is not merely a litany of pious platitudes but is a private regulatory code imposing…