Our objectives
Simply put, we want to ensure the sustainability of our business and our business model. Our ultimate objective is therefore to reflect our own sustainable ambitions throughout our entire supply chain via companies that act in accordance with our own business principles.
In our 2006 Sustainability Report, we set the following targets based on this objective:
- Achieve a 100 per cent 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 per cent 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).