BSR Insight | Partnering With Suppliers on Sustainability Management Systems
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Cody Sisco, Former Manager, Advisory Services
Publication Date
October 26, 2010
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BSR's Beyond Monitoring Working Group released a new guide to help companies effectively partner with their suppliers to improve sustainability management practices. BSR recommends a continuous improvement approach that includes three components:
- Create a shared vision for how companies, suppliers, and factories can partner to achieve continuous improvement in supply chain sustainability performance. This includes identifying common priorities such as labor standards or environmental performance, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and setting specific, measurable goals such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing labor productivity by a specified percentage.
- Define and implement a process for assessing current management capabilities. This process should include a plan for how companies and suppliers can provide incentives for and share the benefits of the achievement of milestones.
- Evaluate suppliers' performance in achieving their sustainability goals in the following competency areas: commitment, policies, performance monitoring and improvement, documentation, communications, system review, and people.
About the Author(s)
Cody Sisco, Former Manager, Advisory Services
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