Sustainable supply chain management
Sustainable supply chain practices optimise operational efficiency, costs, reputation, and long-term resilience.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 22301 Business Continuity Management
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
German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
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.