Ensuring the compliance with voluntary environmental and social sustainability standards by suppliers and sub-suppliers

• Unité de recherche: INNOSUISSE
• Numéro de projet: 12780.2;4 PFES-ES
• Titre du projet anglais: Ensuring the compliance with voluntary environmental and social sustainability standards by suppliers and sub-suppliers

Description succincte (Allemand)

Sicherstellung der Einhaltung freiwilliger ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeitsstandards durch Lieferanten und Unterlieferanten

Description succincte (Anglais)

Ensuring the compliance with voluntary environmental and social sustainability standards by suppliers and sub-suppliers

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Allemand)

Consumers, investors and other external stakeholders increasingly expect companies to respect environmental and social interests. They hold the brand owner responsible for all practices involved in the making of a product, independently whether this concerns the brand owner's or a supplier's activities. Thus, any party in the supply chain not complying with the brand owner's communicated voluntary sustainability standards (e.g. codes of conduct) can potentially damage reputation or harm customer confidence. The project seeks to develop a hands-on «sustainability supply chain management approach» to ensure compliance with environmental and social voluntary sustainability standards by suppliers and sub-suppliers.

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

Consumers, investors and other external stakeholders increasingly expect companies to respect environmental and social interests. They hold the brand owner responsible for all practices involved in the making of a product, independently whether this concerns the brand owner's or a supplier's activities. Thus, any party in the supply chain not complying with the brand owner's communicated voluntary sustainability standards (e.g. codes of conduct) can potentially damage reputation or harm customer confidence. The project seeks to develop a hands-on «sustainability supply chain management approach» to ensure compliance with environmental and social voluntary sustainability standards by suppliers and sub-suppliers.