United Nations Global Compact Office & BSR (Business for Social Responsibility)
Guide
2010
General
Global
General
A practical guide to assist business in embedding sustainability and the Global Compact ten principles into supply chains.
Supply chain sustainability is increasingly recognized as a key component of corporate responsibility. Managing the social, environmental and economic impacts of supply chains, and combating corruption, makes good business sense as well as being the right thing to do. However, supply chains consist of continuously evolving markets and relationships. To navigate this complex terrain, this guide offers a few baseline definitions and practical steps that companies can take toward integrating sustainability into procurement strategies, using the United Nations Global Compact principles as the basis to work toward supply chain sustainability. The guide includes numerous examples of good practice to illustrate the steps towards sustainable supply chain management (including from Hewlett-Packard, Fuji-Xerox, the Coca-Cola Company, Philips, De Beers, Nestle, L’Oreal, Grupo Los Grobo, Infosys, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Gap Inc,. Arcelor-Mittal, Nokia, Timberland, Starbucks, Natura, Volkswagen and more). It also includes 6 quotes by CEOs on the business case for supply chain sustainability.