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What is sustainable supply chain management?
Sustainable supply chain management assesses your procurement processes through the lens of environmental and social responsibility. TÜV SÜD's sustainable supply chain management services help your organisation develop a more responsible supply chain.
Sustainable sourcing and procurement practices reduce your company's environmental impact, helping you meet environmental and social responsibility goals. It also promotes overall quality and business resilience, ensuring compliance with regulations and safety standards. As supply chains stretch across multiple countries and sites, ensuring your suppliers are taking account of environmental and social responsibility can be complex.
Why sustainable supply chain management is important
Sustainable supply chain management ensures your suppliers are following effective environmental, social and economic governance practices. This reflects on your organisation’s footprint and improves your sustainability quotient. Assessment of your supply chain will help you identify supplier’s current compliance status.
Effective sustainable supply chain management:
Enhances customer trust
Meet and exceed customer expectations by confirming overall accountability and compliance.
Reduces environmental footprint
Supply chain sustainability is a key component of wider corporate sustainability initiatives.
Improves business resilience and transparency
Holistic supply chain management ensures compliance with laws and regulations, and adherence with international principles for sustainable business conduct.
How TÜV SÜD can help you with sustainable supply chain management
TÜV SÜD partners with corporations worldwide to address sustainable supply chain management. We have a wide portfolio of audit services, verification of claims and management system certifications. Our experts can help you assess and verify sustainable practices throughout complex and global supply chains. This generates value across supply chain activities, and support you with sustainable supply chain management practices and procedures:
- Screen new suppliers – A reliable and consistent supplier evaluation or qualification process ensures they meet the minimum standards.
- Establish standard information benchmarks – We help you understand and identify the social, ethical, and environmental status of individual suppliers.
- Identify gaps – Use current sustainability issues as a starting point to decide how they should be addressed.
- Initiate continuous improvement – Upgrade suppliers’ operations in the long-term through iterative improvements.
- Measure success – Use audits to verify if improvements are being made and how.
What our sustainable supply chain management services include
Due Diligence
Due diligence systems verification provides third-party evaluation of an organisation's responsible management of risks and impacts across the value chain, specific to the company's contextual factors such as geography and industry. The service results in a comprehensive report outlining strengths and areas for improvement, addressing the need for integration of due diligence, best practices and sustainable procurement considerations.
- EUDR Deforestation Regulation prevents trade in deforestation-linked products. TÜV SÜD offers EUDR specific public trainings, gap analysis, documentation review, supplier audits, and 3rd -party verification on due diligence requirements to operators, traders and their suppliers abroad from EU.
- EUBR Battery Regulation imposes due diligence obligations related to the sourcing, processing, and trading of raw materials used in batteries. TÜV SÜD offers EUDR specific public trainings, supply chain mapping, monitoring, and auditing services as well as third party verification of due diligence system & policies in place.
- Supply Chain Due Diligence Laws like Germany's LkSG, EU CSDDD: TÜV SÜD supports regulatory compliance journey via public awareness & deep dive trainings, gap analyses and supply chain audits, conformity assessments against international standards and frameworks.
Audit Services - Second Party Audits
Our supplier audit includes a detailed assessment of your entire supply chain, ensuring transparency.
Please note that we are unable to provide audit services to companies that hold a valid accredited certification with TÜV SÜD. However, we would be pleased to explore potential opportunities for collaboration with you. Please also note that our services are not available to manufacturers of medical devices.
ESG Supplier Audits to meet Due Diligence obligations
TÜV SÜD's ESG Supplier Audits evaluate supplier alignment, resilience, and adherence to ESG principles. This helps you to build resilient supply chains that meet ethical standards and regulatory requirements.
HSE Audits
Health, Safety and Environmental Audit is a systematic evaluation of Environmental Health and Safety Performance, and the systems put in place for prevention of accidents & incidents, adverse health effects & environmental impacts. Third-party HSE audits from TÜV SÜD provide independent, objective verification of organisation's HSE performance, delivering contractual assurance and benchmarked insights that enhance stakeholder confidence and drive continuous improvement.
Social Compliance Audits
Our Social Compliance Audits help you to build market trust, mitigate legal risks, and safeguard your reputation. In today's regulatory landscape, businesses face increasing pressure to uphold human rights and social compliance standards throughout their value chains.
- SMETA
The world's leading online platform for companies to manage and improve working conditions in global supply chains.
- Responsible Supply Chain Initiative (RSCI)
RSCI framework allows companies to demonstrate full transparency to external parties about working conditions, safety, and remuneration.
- Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Code of Conduct
TÜV SÜD is licensed to audit against the responsible business alliance code of conduct for the electronics industry supply chain. We offer three types of RBA audit services: Customer Managed Audit (CMA), Auditee Managed Audit (AMA), and Validated Assessment Program (VAP) audit
- amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI)
amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) audit is an industry-driven movement aimed at monitoring and assessing workplace standards across the global supply chain to ensure ethical and legal treatment of workers. Conducting a BSCI audit helps businesses uphold social responsibility, avoid negative press, enhance their reputation, and improve supplier relationships. We offer comprehensive BSCI audit services, integrating them with other management systems to ensure compliance and maintain professional, independent, and impartial assessments.
Environmental Audits
TÜV SÜD provides comprehensive environmental audit services, including assessments for amfori BEPI. We offer specific approaches to risk assessment, considering the specific context of each organisation/ project and adhering to relevant regulations.
- amfori Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI)
amfori Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI) is a comprehensive system designed to help businesses enhance their environmental performance across all levels. Our BEPI audit service offers substantial benefits, including reducing environmental impact, achieving cost efficiencies, and strengthening stakeholder relations. These advantages make it a powerful tool for businesses committed to sustainability and long-term success.
- HIGG FEM
The HIGG Facility Environmental Module (FEM) is a powerful tool amongst apparel, footwear, and textile industry for sustainability assessments that facilities can use to measure and improve their environmental performances yearly.
- Scope 3 Emission Reduction
Leveraging ISO 14064-1, ISO 14067, and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), we verify GHG emissions, product carbon footprints, and enhance transparency and environmental commitment.
Management System Certifications
- PAS 24000 Social Management System
PAS 24000 is a Publicly Available Specification that ensures products and services provided by organisations are always associated with specified minimum social requirements.
- SA 8000 Social Accountability
SA8000 is the world's leading social certification programme and social compliance standard. It demonstrates your commitment to a humane working environment which enhances productivity, improves stakeholder relationships and supports smooth market access.
- ISO 28000 Supply Chain Security Management
ISO 28000 supply chain security management helps organisations with global supply chains to understand their level of risk and gives them a framework to act on any weak points.
- ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management
ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management helps organisations identify potential threats to critical business functions and design a business continuity management plan.
