Supply Chain

A company is always dependent of other actors. It is even more so in times of increasing specialisation, where companies today outsource what was used to be considered as core processes in the own business.

As a result, companies, specially the ones with well known brands, are considered responsible for how their external stakeholders such as suppliers, retailers and customers act.

By integrating a clear perspective of responsibility in the purchasing processes and including suppliers in the company’s ambitions on the sustainability area, one increases the possibilities to find efficient solutions to the new demands in a changed world. At the same time, the risks of the company’s trust being hurt by external actors’ misacts are minimised. Integrating the responsibility and sustainability issues in the regular purchasing functions as much as possible is desirable in this work.

Specific tools in working on the supply chain are, among others, risk assessment, requirements and purchase routines, code of conduct with follow-up processes, training, internal follow-up, external auditing and communication.

Enact has worked with supply chain responsibility for a number of international companies. In our network, we have resources for practical work in different parts of the world.