What issues does CSR raise?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) encompasses all practices adopted by companies with the aim of promoting sustainable development that respects human rights, social equality, and the environment. CSR thus seeks to combine economic viability, social progress, and sound environmental practices.
In large companies, this is a practice in its own right: non-financial reporting. Beyond the CSR manager, it is up to the Procurement department to select responsible suppliers throughout the supply chain, in order to exclude those who are negligent in terms of CSR. Your reputation and online reputation are at stake. To ask the right questions and make your business model more responsible, the ISO 26000 standard is an invaluable resource. It offers an approach based on seven key questions:
- the organization's governance
- human rights
- labor relations and working conditions
- the environment
- fair dealing
- consumer issues
- communities and local development.
The AFNOR Solutions Achats risk mapping tool also takes into account 13 CSR issues and 4 areas of potential impact on the company. This is followed by a series of recommendations that enable you to mitigate these risks—or at least keep them under control.
How can you secure your supply chain?
Economic globalization, the offshoring of production, multi-tiered subcontracting, corporate mergers, and industrial consolidations pose risks to the supply chain. All of these trends serve to weaken a contractor’s supply chain—sometimes to the point of halting production.
To make its supply chain more secure, the client must remain vigilant and integrate its supplier relationships into a management system. The first step is to map these risks: to secure its supply chain, the client must first identify where it is vulnerable. One tool can provide the answer: supplier risk mapping. Once you review the results, you can implement preventive measures.
