Responsible Sourcing
A responsible or ethical sourcing program can help your company improve product quality, build supply chain relationships, secure long term product availability, and meet consumer demands for socially-responsible products.
A credible sourcing program needs third party validation. SCS provides a singular expertise in agricultural supply chains worldwide. Our knowledge can help you define metrics for best practices, develop a unique responsible sourcing program for your company or commodity, implement a preferred supplier rating system, or provide an auditor's eye for a technical review of pre-existing program materials.
Complement and go beyond certification
A responsible or ethical sourcing program helps differentiate your company from competitors. Go beyond off-the-shelf offerings by showing your commitment to sustainable supply chain management.
Responsible Sourcing Services
Quantify Your Values
SCS’s auditing staff turns your values into a scorecard. From there, we can produce a dependable auditing and verification system tailored to your preferred supplier program’s needs.
- Establish auditable criteria
- Define necessary audit frequency
- Determine metrics for audit results
Third-Party Verification and Validation
With clear social responsibility criteria and a scorecard with which to measure your supply chain, SCS takes you through the next step with a team of global auditors who can verify compliance with your ethical sourcing program. We can also train your staff to conduct second-party audits, depending on the level of impartiality your program requires.
SCS completes the process with a web-based reporting database, enabling you to track subtle shifts in supply chain compliance.
Sustainability Starts Today
Your brand is strengthened when each partner throughout the supply chain practices environmental and social responsibility according to defined criteria. Developing a grower and supplier program will mitigate risk in your supply chain and assist with the long-term goal of 100% ethically-sourced products.
Show your stakeholders and customers what your intentions mean on the ground with an SCS-backed responsible sourcing strategy. Put our global network to work for you.
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