Supply chain responsibility continued
Planned activities in 2007
In 2007, we will take steps to further implement the Supplier Code and to broaden its scope.
We plan to:
- Achieve a 100 percent response rate from all suppliers that were contacted by Group Purchasing in 2006
- Integrate supply chain responsibility in the periodic quality audits and subject at least 20 percent of group suppliers to a quality audit
- Further integrate supply chain responsibility in the supplier assessment process
- Start the expansion of the Supplier Code to local contracts for raw material, packaging, promotional materials and investment goods from operating companies in our regions of Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe and Africa & Middle East (to be completed in 2008)
- Define a process for integrating the Supplier Code in goods and services other than those mentioned above (for example, utilities, advertising, maintenance and repair work).
