
Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable supply chains enable us to achieve our long-term strategy ambitions.
It is essential that we collaborate to enhance supplier sustainability and to implement the activities that bring us closer to reaching our ambitions. This section outlines our activities to advance supply chain sustainability.
OUR MILESTONES
2020-2025 | 2025-2030 |
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Our activities
Based on the Drive Sustainability approach our activities on supply chain sustainability complement each other by giving guidance, assessing compliance and supporting sustainable supply chains through capacity building.
Learn more about our integrated approach here.
Guiding Principles
Drive Sustainability has a set of common guidelines- Global Automotive Sustainability Guiding Principles (Guiding Principles) – outlining expectations for suppliers on key responsibility issues including human rights, environment, working conditions and business ethics. The Guiding Principles represent the global strategy and base of all activities.
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Compliance
The compliance process assesses organisational adherence of automotive suppliers to international regulations and standards in the area of sustainability. Current activities cover the
• Drive Sustainability self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ)
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Capacity Building
Our capacity building activities have the objective to complement our compliance activities, to support automotive suppliers in their sustainability journey with useful training offers that help suppliers to improve their sustainability performance.
- • E-Learning
- • Face-to-Face/virtual Supplier Training
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News
Drive Sustainability Set to Launch SAQ 5.0 to Enhance Environmental and Human Rights Due Diligence in the Automotive Value Chain
• The updated Sustainability Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) 5.0 evaluates key areas of supply chain sustainability, like scope 3 emissions, grievance mechanisms, and responsible sourcing of raw...
Read moreMajority of participants would recommend the newly launched E-Learning Introduction Course to peers.
BRUSSELS (Belgium), December 09, 2021 – More than 500 suppliers have participated in the Drive Sustainability introductory e-learning course, since its launch in March. The large majority of partici...
Read moreSAQ 4.0 to be updated to SAQ 5.0 in 2022
Brussels (Belgium), December 08, 2021 – Last month, Drive Sustainability started the process of the 5th revision of the Self-Assessment Questionnaire on CSR/Sustainability for suppliers in the autom...
Read moreDrive Sustainability Among the Founding Members of the Responsible Supply Chain Initiative
Berlin (Germany), November 05, 2021 - Drive Sustainability amongst the founding member of the Responsible Supply Chain Initiative (RSCI). The new association aims at supporting stakeholders in the imp...
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