RSE et Développement Durable

Les réglementations internationales ont un impact croissant sur les achats et la gestion de la supply chain des entreprises. Avec la mondialisation des échanges, les chaînes d'approvisionnement s'étendent sur plusieurs pays et continents. Les entreprises doivent donc composer avec des réglementations variées, ce qui complexifie la gestion des achats et des flux logistiques.

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Le baromètre souligne par ailleurs une progression majeure des pratiques avec l’ensemble des parties prenantes, avec quelques disparités selon les secteurs d’activités comme la distribution, les services ou l’industrie. Les pratiques RSE s’intègrent progressivement dans les critères de performance et les objectifs contractualisés. Cette progression se comprend jusque dans les échanges de données entre partenaires, ce qui était loin d’être le cas en 2021.

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The country’s most sustainably minded retailers are placing more of an emphasis on sourcing — by both boosting locally and sustainably produced food and by requiring stricter environmental standards from their suppliers. This ranges from sourcing more sustainable seafood, including canned tuna, to ensuring that beef is being produced with no deforestation. Palm oil, coffee, eggs, soy and pulp are other commodities that are being more closely watched by grocers to ensure sustainable production.

In fact, the 2022 Sustainability Barometer released by London-based Mintel finds that from a global consumer perspective, concerns about water and food shortages are now being prioritized ahead of previous preoccupations with waste and plastic. Therefore, it makes sense for grocers to include messaging about their efforts in more sustainable sourcing and in combating climate change.

Several retailers, including Batavia, Ill.-based Aldi US, are committing that all of the fresh, frozen and farmed seafood they purchase will be third-party certified as sustainable or from fishery improvement projects by the end of 2025. Meanwhile, expect to see more of these grocers ramp up tracing efforts so that customers will also recognize their efforts in sustainability.

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L'inquiétude face au rebond de la crise sanitaire a propulsé la gestion du risque supply en première place du classement des priorités des décideurs achats pour l'année 2022.

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Entre les évolutions réglementaires et le déploiement des politiques RSE, les acteurs des chaînes d'approvisionnement sont contraints de transformer leurs pratiques. Après les prises de conscience, l'heure est à l'action et aux projets conduits de façon conjointe.

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Depuis longtemps, l'objectif d'une entreprise était de réaliser des bénéfices, de rester en activité et de rapporter de la valeur aux actionnaires. Mais cela est en train de bouger, et fortement.

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Supply chain emissions often exceed operational emissions
According to CDP, supply chain emissions are on average over twice that of a company’s operational emissions. In the energy and mining sector, upstream Scope 3 emissions exceed operational emissions by up to four times. For this reason, corportions can no longer afford to diregard their supply chain emissions.

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For years, apparel brands have promised to police their supply chains to root out unsafe conditions and worker abuse. But new research from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations found a variety of problems in their efforts. For example, much of the information given to the auditors who inspect factories was inaccurate, particularly in China and India.

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All financial actors urged to review supply chains and business relationships to ensure they are not indirectly contributing to the conflagrations through deforestation as they have direct human rights impacts for local communities.

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A Greenpeace report claimed that "not a single company was able to demonstrate meaningful effort to eradicate deforestation from its supply chain." The environmental organization challenged in early 2019 more than 50 CPG companies, retailers and producers to demonstrate their progress by disclosing their cattle, cocoa, dairy, palm oil and soya suppliers. 

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En moyenne, selon les projections de l'Ademe, près de 650 millions de véhicules électriques pourraient être en circulation dans le monde en 2040, impliquant une forte demande de lithium, au risque de créer des tensions sur les marchés.

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Each year Australia imports a whopping $US4 billion worth of clothes and accessories that may be tainted by slave labor. The Global Slavery Index 2018, published by the Walk Free Foundation last week, ranks the garment industry as the second largest category of imports that are at-risk of being produced by victims of modern slavery. The number one spot went to electronics. Overall, Australia imports $12 billion worth of goods at risk of slavery in their supply chains.

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Cinq ans après le drame du Rana Plaza, qui a mis en lumière l’exploitation des ouvriers du textile au Bangladesh, certaines grandes enseignes ont pris conscience de leur responsabilité sociale, mais la condition de ces employés reste précaire.

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La situation actuelle cause d'importantes perturbations dans la logistique du transport et la supply chain. Pour réussir dans ce contexte, les entreprises doivent prioriser des stratégies fondées sur la flexibilité, la collaboration, et la décarbonation.

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En plus du manque de visibilité et des difficultés inhérentes à la dépendance aux filières internationales, la complexité des collaborations serait un des maux profonds au sein des supply chain.

Le premier défi à relever pour les professionnels de la Supply Chain

« 46 % des fournisseurs mondiaux citent le manque de collaboration comme leur principal obstacle à l'amélioration des processus de la chaîne d'approvisionnement. » C'est par ces mots que Laurelle Dormoy, senior account executive chez OpenText, spécialiste de la gestion de documents numériques et de l'échange de données, a débuté son intervention à l'occasion du Supply Chain Event qui s'est tenu les 15 et 16 novembre dernier à Paris.

Cet aspect se présenterait ainsi comme le premier défi à relever pour les professionnels du domaine. « Le manque de collaboration qui empêche non seulement les fonctionnements efficaces, mais aussi la stimulation de l'innovation », estime-t-elle. « Il faut voir cet aspect comme un pont qui va permettre aux chaînes d'approvisionnement de commande ou de contrôle, en réaction aux événements, de devenir de véritables chaînes d'approvisionnement collaboratives créatrices de valeur. »

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The turn of the new decade saw the rise of ambitious sustainability goals. Products with sustainability labels received increased traction. Around the same time, social media influencers were voicing their support for ethical work practices and security for frontline supply chain workers. As a result, sustainable procurement became a priority in enterprise strategic agendas. But in 2020, when Covid-19 rocked the world economy, new challenges emerged.

The impact of the pandemic on supply chains was disruptive. Many feared that the crisis would dampen growing enthusiasm to invest in sustainable procurement practices. But it did the just the opposite.

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As the call for sustainability intensifies across the entire stakeholder spectrum, ESG compliance in the procurement function is quickly becoming the standard, and value creation the new competitive advantage. But how can corporate supply chains create social and environmental impact? One clear answer is through social procurement.

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La supply chain de demain se reconstruira autour de six axes de transformation: elle sera centrée sur les clients, plus courte, collaborative, assurant le contrôle de bout en bout de la chaîne de valeur, responsable et transformée par le digital.

56% des dirigeants français veulent améliorer la résilience de leur supply chain et passer d'une logique de réduction des coûts à une logique de différenciation compétitive, selon un Baromètre de la transformation industrielle établi par KPMG France et La Fabrique de l'Industrie. Cette étude dresse un bilan de l'état des entreprises industrielles françaises sur les 18 derniers mois et analyse les transformations qu'elles devront opérer pour assurer la continuité et le développement de leurs activités.

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President Ursula von der Leyen pledged to have “zero tolerance” for child labour in EU trade, and asserted a vision and priorities to have an EU that stands up for justice and human rights.  She stressed that the EU economy must prioritize “social fairness and prosperity” for all people. While these are ambitious, promising steps, such aspirations are useless unless effective action is taken.

Sadly, child labour continues to increase in the EU supply chain of coffee, cocoa, and many other agricultural products. Child labour negates social fairness, equality, and justice, and weakens and threatens the rule of law.

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Last month, French cosmetics powerhouse L'Occitane became the latest to join the movement for sustainable procurement by signing the Responsible Beauty Initiative, which counts among its signatories household names like Coty, L’Oréal and Louis Vuitton.

Signing the pledge was the company’s way of highlighting the business imperative of a sustainable supply chain and procurement function.

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The widespread impact of the coronavirus pandemic is revealing a significant vulnerability in corporate supply chains — the potential for disruptions and delays born of employer-controlled working and living conditions that contribute to the spread of the virus. The investment community is now at an inflection point on how to value and assess the treatment of human capital in corporate supply chains going forward. 

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Businesses helped drive the loss of 3.6 million-plus hectares of rainforest last year, as trees were cut down for timber and to make way for beef, soy, and palm oil. But even as they tout their sustainability credentials, the majority of corporations still aren’t transparent about the deforestation in their supply chains. When the environmental advocacy group CDP asked 1,500 companies to disclose forest data at the request of investors—as part of its new report on corporate anti-deforestation policies—70% declined.

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BSI has identified five major themes that are most likely to impact the supply chain in 2019. The analysis of how these five themes will affect supply chains this year forms the business improvement company's annual analysis of global supply chain risks. The five themes are: 

• Revision of the Minimum Security Criteria under the US Border Protection's Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT)
• Supply chain growth in Africa increasing exposure to varying risks
• Ongoing mass migration posing both security and corporate social responsibility risks
• Dramatic shifts in politics including those in Brazil, the US-China trade dispute, and uncertainty over Britain'sdeparture from the European Union
• The continued threat to supply chains posed by cybersecurity issues

 

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Since reporting laws were put in place, major companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Activision, Facebook, and Sony have done their part to reduce or eliminate the chances that your Oculus Rift or Skylanders figurine was partially the product of and/or financed a human rights violation. The 2017 reports show a mostly steady continuation of conflict-free sourcing, though with a bit of backsliding on the reporting aspects from a few companies.

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