We promote the sustainability of our value chain through maintaining close and long-standing ties with our suppliers. By clearly stipulating our expectations and following up on their work, we ensure productive collaborations built on mutual trust.
Supplier Code of Conduct
Through our Supplier Code of Conduct, we require that our suppliers are committed to identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for adverse environmental, human rights and governance impacts in their own operations and supply chains.
Ensuring compliance
We conduct audits or assessments to ensure compliance with our Supplier Code of Conduct and we take appropriate steps when necessary. To promote and ensure their compliance with our requirements, we work closely with our suppliers to, for example, implement ISO14001. We reserve the right to discontinue relationships for non-adherence to international principles, failure to correct violations, or displaying patterns of non-compliance with these standards or our Code.
Contract management
We have an arsenal of comprehensive contractual templates that cover most types of purchases and include specific sections pertaining to sustainability. These lay the foundation for how we ensure that our requirements are clearly conveyed to the suppliers with whom we choose to engage.