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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 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
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.
Audit Services - Second party audits - Gap analysis
- Second Party Audits – Our supplier audit includes a detailed assessment of your entire supply chain, ensuring transparency.
- Gap Analysis – To reduce supply chain risk and ensure stable operations, our expert auditors perform supply chain gap analysis
Please note that we cannot provide second party audits and supply chain gap analysis to companies that hold a valid accredited management system certification under TÜV SÜD. However, we will be happy to work with you to identify opportunities for collaboration.
Responsible Supply Chain Initiative
This framework allows companies to demonstrate full transparency to external parties about working conditions, safety, and remuneration.
German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) applies to companies in Germany with a minimum of 3,000 employees starting from 2023 and subsequently extends to those with at least 1,000 employees from 2024.
Primary components involve establishing a risk management system to identify, prevent, or mitigate risks associated with human rights violations and environmental damage. These obligations apply to the company's business operations, as well as the activities of contractual partners and other (indirect) suppliers. Management system standards (MSS) help companies to effectively manage operations and supply chains, with enhanced risk management and adherence to applicable laws and regulations.
Primary components involve establishing a risk management system to identify, prevent, or mitigate risks associated with human rights violations and environmental damage. These obligations apply to the company's business operations, as well as the activities of contractual partners and other (indirect) suppliers. Management system standards (MSS) help companies to effectively manage operations and supply chains, with enhanced risk management and adherence to applicable laws and regulations.
ESG Supplier Audits
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.
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.
