“At Verizon, we continue to press ahead and actively manage the social, environmental and economic impacts of our business. This value is reflected in our Supplier Code of Conduct, which has been augmented to focus on CSR issues in our supply chain. We believe the supplier relationships we build provide additional insight into the economic, environmental and social impact of our supply chain, so that we can collectively improve our performance.”

"Sustainable Procurement is very important to Heineken. It is part of the future, it’s part of our program Growing a Better Future, and sustainability is a fundamental issue to move the business forward, not only from a supplier perspective but from a Heineken perspective in total. As part of Social Business, we would like to move sustainability forward." "EcoVadis provides a platform that helps us create transparency on our supplier’s base, the development of our supply base in sustainability. We would see how suppliers are performing and we can challenge suppliers on the way they have to perform. The EcoVadis tools will help us to create an objective platform for suppliers to improve their own performance in this area."

Edwin Zuidema
Global Category Director Raw Materials

"Ecovadis is providing to suppliers a unique methodology to demonstrate performance on sustainability by building on what is already existing and by ensuring that perception of the “external world” is also reflected. For buying organizations such as Nestle, Ecovadis is one of the methodologies used to avoid duplication and ensure collaboration on responsible sourcing with strategic suppliers."

Benjamin Ware
Global Supplier Assessment & Development Manager

“CCE has developed a strong sustainability plan : Deliver for Today, Inspire for tomorrow. Our CSR commitments and targets remain at the core of what we do. We have made each of them more challenging, and delivering against them is what we are focused on, day in, day out. We are considering our entire value chain, hence it is essential to get the engagement of our suppliers to be successful in achieving our commitments. Over the past year, CCE procurement department has developed a strategy to embed CSR into all our relationships with our suppliers. The EcoVadis solution help us to strengthen our approach by getting more visibility, via an objective collaborative platform, on how our suppliers are performing. User-friendly and actionable scorecards enable our procurement team to work on concrete CRS improvement plan with our key suppliers.”

From Nokia People-Planet report 2013: "We also used industry-common tools for requests related to our supply chain. In these tools, the questions are aligned with the aim of delivering more consistent and robust impact throughout the supply chains. One example of this is the joint industry initiative E-TASC (Electronics – Tools for Accountable Supply Chains), a common approach for assessing and managing companies’ supply chain risk. It aims to drive performance improvement related to labor practices, health and safety, ethics and environmental activity consistently throughout the supply chain."  (Nokia is a member and user of the GeSI E-TASC platform, which is powered by EcoVadis)

"As a global Beauty player, we are using our power of influence to improve the overall sustainability performance along our supply chain in collaboration with our business partners. We strive to reduce our environmental footprint towards neutrality."

Coty commitments

“In January 2011, we launched Healthy Future 2015, which defines our priorities and goals for the next five years. One of the 7 goals is linked to Procurement : we aim at partnering with suppliers who embrace sustainability by joining with suppliers who demonstrate a similar commitment to ours through their practices, goal-setting and the positive impacts they seek to achieve.”

Johnson & Johnson
CSR Report 2011

"Michelin's social responsibility reaches as far as purchasing : this means selecting goods or services which respect the highest social, ethical and environmental standards.In order to check that the Group's core principles are being respected, suppliers are evaluated in terms of Social and Environmental Responsibility criteria in accordance with ISO 26000. These evaluations, carried out by Ecovadis, may be supplemented by document or on-site audits which result in improvement plans."

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“By 2020, 100% of our strategic suppliers will be participating in our supplier sustainability programme. It is our responsibility to engage our suppliers with our commitments and we want to improve by also helping our partners to improve. We will help them meet their sustainability challenges by sharing our training tools with them. All our strategic suppliers will be evaluated and selected on social and environmental performance. We will help them to complete a self-assessment of their sustainability policy. In addition, 20% of strategic suppliers will take part in our Solidarity sourcing programme.”

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